Students then got into Literature Circles to discuss TKW. Most students are very behind on the reading (chapters 1-2). We are up to chapter 5. For next week read chapter 6-8 pp. 180-274.
Today we looked at classes or groups of characters: parents or guardians, incorrigible slaves or enslaved persons who loved freedom; characters with mental illness, crippled characters, rich and poor, those who died young, families: intact and splintered, blended families....
For next week think about the consequences for those characters who have no control over their persons and how events beyond their control make them behave in certain ways.
Think about the choices certain characters make and the consequences, seen and unanticipated.
We will write and present three arguments for this book: Aristotelian, Toulmin, and Rogerian. The topics to be considered are:US Institution of Slavery: Legality vs. Morality. Parents and Children: Choice or Heredity/Nature or Nurture? The Known World: Thinking Outside the Box.
We will begin writing these essays next week. We will also practice making an outline.
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