TODAY IN CLASS
Students began reading their choice of final works:

• Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon (only for people who actually DO have the book in hand already
• Two plays from the Perrine text:
• The Glass Menagerie,  by Tennessee Williams (starts on p. 1156)
• Fences,  by August Wilson (starts on p. 1565)

First-round heads-up for Song of Solomon:

Keep track of the FLIGHT motif, pay attention to COLORS; know that every single person introduced in Chapter 1 (whether by name or description) will recur throughout the novel.

Your job as you're reading Ch. 1-2--what other obvious categories come to mind just based on these opening chapters?  

FOR TOMORROW

Song of Solomon:  read to the end of Chapter 2 (p. 55)

The Glass Menagerie:  read to the end of Scene 6 (p. 1191)

I'll be chatting with the Perrine people about The Glass Menagerie, probably in at least two groups. I'll be trying to find out what's going well, and what isn't--so you can get squared away.