11.6.15

On-demand write for "Recitatif" by Toni Morrison

Pick one of the following prompts to craft a page (handwritten and double-spaced):

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 * 1)  What repeated symbols do you notice? Ex.: hair, food, shelter, orchard, music, mothers. Select one repeated symbol and analyze its impact within the story. What is Morrison using it to show us thematically? *Since we brainstormed around this, students might gravitate toward this one. They can access the class website where I linked pictures of the brainstorms.

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 * 1)  What is the effect of the narrative structure that Toni Morrison uses; why does she create the five encounters in the way that she does? How does Twyla’s point of view change throughout the text, and what does her story reveal about how memories work and affect us?

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 * 1)  Why does Toni Morrison end the story with Roberta crying and asking “What the hell happened to Maggie?”? What does Maggie’s silence/ lost story represent to Roberta and Twyla? How are both characters reflected in Maggie’s story?

This is due at the end of class. If you missed class, turn this in in your google folder.

Read: “The Secret Surveillance of ‘Suspicious’ Blacks in one of the Nation’s Poshest Neighborhoods” and use the note-taking guide as you read. This will be prep for the next piece of writing we’ll study.

Article: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ibhUQ0iXp0_RxtsWxPPHu573oYYFHijAbm8d-uotzf0/edit?usp=sharing

Note-taking guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18QafY4kUoJ0FeEJC1chfqPJSC5ltqpQURlHc1AXXP18/edit?usp=sharing

Reading this articles and filling out the note-taking guide is your homework.