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Toni Morrison’s

Beloved

Wednesday, May 3

Consideration of Essential Questions

Your observations

Silent writing

Essential Questions

What is the nature of memory? What is its relationship to imagination? How and to what extent do we control it, and how and to what extent does it control us?

What are the limits of personal / individual / autonomous moral agency? In other words, at which point does one no longer have the right to decide right and wrong for oneself?

How do we transmit — or avoid transmitting — our burdens to the next generation? How do we bear the burdens passed to us? What are the consequences of inherited burdens?

What constitutes moral action when immorality reigns?

Tuesday, May 10

Process

*Parents and children

*Tomorrow’s reading test

*Today’s seminar

Representative Seminar

Beginning-105

Toni Morrison’s *Beloved*


Talk show/Representative seminar

Beginning-Page 105, emphasizing 15-19; 67-69


What?

  • Interpretation and analysis of the specified passages and the text as a whole in terms four essential questions

How?

  • Modified representative seminar, talk show format

Why?

  • Better to understand and appreciate the text as art, as artifact (amend this)
  • To further articulate responses to the essential questions, in relation to both our own lived experience and the text
  • To develop or deepen empathy for those whose answers to these questions may be different, even radically different, from our own

Toni Morrison’s Beloved


Talk show/Representative seminar

Beginning-Page 105, emphasizing 15-19; 67-69

What?

Interpretation and analysis of the specified passages and the text as a whole in terms four essential questions

How?

Modified representative seminar, talk show format

Why?

Better to understand and appreciate the text as art, as artifact (amend this)

To further articulate responses to the essential questions, in relation to both our own lived experience and the text

To develop or deepen empathy for those whose answers to these questions may be different, even radically different, from our own