Remembering, Disremembering, and (Un)Accounting For: February 5, 2020

Focus: How is Morrison experimenting with diction and structure, and why?

1. Warming up with wordplay, Toni Morrison style:

Memory

Rememory

Disremember

Unaccounted

re-

a prefix...used with the meaning “again” or “again and again” to indicate 
repetition, or with the meaning “back” or “backward” to indicate withdrawal or  backward motion

dis-

a Latin prefix meaning “apart,” “asunder,” “away,” “utterly,” or having a     negative, or  reversing force 

un-

a prefix meaning “not,” freely used as an English formative, giving negative or opposite force 

(thank you, dictionary.com, for the above definitions)

What do these words have in common?

What is the difference between these words?

How do they fit Sethe's journey? Paul D's? Denver's? Beloved's?
Can you make any connection between these words and the way Morrison plays with chronology?

3. Wrapping up with our Valentine of the Day

HW:

1. For FRIDAY: Read Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 5 in Part 2 (pages 236-256) and complete your reading ticket. Chapter 1 will also be included in this Socratic and is one of the most interesting chapters in the book, so if you didn't give Part 2, Chapter 1 the attention it deserved, please reread it carefully.

2. ASAP: Please complete your metacognitive and submit it if you have not done so.