Documents and Projects
Reading schedule
Student Led Discussion Materials:
Presentation Schedule
Checklist for I.M. work
Student Presentation Rubric
Chapter Analysis Handout or Close reading practice
Directions for student presentations
Use the Motif Chart at the end of every chapter to summarize the works major textual patterns.
The Novel:
Here is a pdf to the entire novel Invisible Man
Other handouts:
Reading Log Questions
Invisible Man Open Topic Prompts
Student Led Discussion Materials:
Presentation Schedule
Checklist for I.M. work
Student Presentation Rubric
Chapter Analysis Handout or Close reading practice
Directions for student presentations
Use the Motif Chart at the end of every chapter to summarize the works major textual patterns.
The Novel:
Here is a pdf to the entire novel Invisible Man
Other handouts:
Reading Log Questions
Invisible Man Open Topic Prompts
Prose Prompt Template
Q2 Prose Prompt Template:
Read the following passage that starts "..............................." carefully on pages ( ). Discuss (or another verb) the ways Ellison... Pay attention to way Ellison....
Read the following passage that starts "..............................." carefully on pages ( ). Discuss (or another verb) the ways Ellison... Pay attention to way Ellison....
Introduction to Invisible Man
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"The Problem We All Live With"
You do not need to answer all of these questions. Freewrite about the ideas and questions this painting brings up for you as well as any connections you see between the painting and Chapter Two.
Questions to consider:
Questions to consider:
- What is the connection between this painting of Ruby Bridges and Chapter Two?
- Discuss the implications of this painting as it applies to Chapter Two.
- Is education a privilege or a right according to you? the narrator? How do you know the narrator's point of view when it comes to his education?
- What questions does this painting bring up for you?
C.2 Discussion Questions
1. Identify each of the following people:
Matty Lou
Norton
Kate
the Founder
Trueblood
2. Explain the irony of the college setting.
3. Explain Norton’s reaction to Trueblood’s story
Allusions
Mr. Norton is compared to Santa Claus and also is mentioned as keeping the "white man's burden" which is an allusion to the following poem. Read the poem ":White Man's Burden" and write a response about how it applies to Mr. Norton.
C.4 and 5 Discussion Questions (Answer five questions all together from chapter four and five, choose a few questions from each chapter) Take notes on your answers.
Chapter Four
- How does the imagery at the beginning of C.4 show the narrators inner tension?
- Why does the narrator hate Trueblood and the people at the Golden Day?
- What is the effect of comparing the campus building to an “old plantation manor house”?
- How has Dr. Bledsoe achieved power in society?
Chapter Five
- What is the rhetorical argument behind the comparison of the moon to a “white man’s bloodshot eye”?
- What is the tone of the two paragraphs that begins “Into the doors and into the soft lights...”
- What is the rhetorical effect of the long italicized passage?
- What phrase does the narrator use to describe Dr. Bledsoe’s position relative to the trustees around him? Why is this significant?
- What is the rhetorical effect of Rev. Barbee’s blindness?
- What images does the narrator see as he leaves chapel?