Discussion 5 Assignment
This discussion post has four parts. For full credit, you must respond substantively to all four questions.
- Post at least one question/point about Lecture 3 and Twain’s Huck Finn
- What is your favorite scene in Huck Finn? Why have you chosen this scene? How does this scene help you understand the entire novel?
- Do the ending and resolutions of Twain’s novel work for you?
- Why would you or would you not recommend this book to your (choose one: spouse, friend, parent, child, enemy, former teacher, etc.)?
Lecture 5 Video: https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/4268a8f4-9c5…
*(The Discussion Assignment is due tomorrow at 11:59pm ET so start this immediately)
Peer responses
respond to each of the two students and use 150-200 words when responding. Start of by saying (Hello name)
Elizabeth
Post at least one question/point in response to Lecture 5.
During Booker T. Washington’s speech his statement “Cast down your bucket where you are.” Really stuck with me with it meaning that you have valuable resources where you are that you don’t need to go elsewhere to find them. I think that this point is something that many need to stop and think about everyone has something to offer where you are there is not necessarily the need to go searching somewhere else to add meaning to your life.
In the conclusion of Alice Walker’s novel, The Color Purple, the narrator Celie says that the Fourth of July is not about celebrating American independence, but it’s about celebrating “us.” What do you think she means by this?
I think that the celebration of the Fourth of July gave the slaves and later their freed decedents a day to spend away from whites. Giving them that day to rejoice in their own revolution and separateness.
Post at least one question/point about anything you have read in this unit.
My question is about “The Man Who Was Almost a Man”. What might’ve happened if Jenny had never been killed?
What is the most significant thing you’ve learned from studying this unit?
I think that the most significant thing that I have learned this week is that no matter the author nor their color or heritage that the history that they must impart is just as important in helping us all to understand the American history. There are so many aspects that are shown by the writers and as we all learn differently along with having different opinions about things it really opens up more doors into the past and how things really where.
*(The Second student didn’t post their Discussion Assignment. When they do I will give it to you so you can respond to them.)
Response Essay
From which work have you learned the most significant lesson about the following?
- Race in America
- Being a human
- Being a black woman in America
Write a three-paragraph response essay (two pages) to this week’s question. Be specific: from which work this week have you learned the most about race in America, from which work being human, and from which work being a black woman in America. Explain your answers.
Please submit assignment by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. EST
- If an essay is below standard (below a “C”) in terms of content, style, and punctuation, you will have to rewrite it to receive a grade, so be sure not to submit first drafts.
- Acceptable essays will graded “B” if they meet the demands of the assignment, “A” if they both meet the demands of the assignment and teach me something, and “C” if they are minimally satisfactory.
- You may rewrite C- and B-level essays (except for the final essay), but if your essays progress in quality, you will earn a final grade based on improvement rather than an average of all assignments (of course, if you work is “upand-down,” your final grade will be more of an average grade).
Pages to help you with Discussion Assignment and Essay
Volume 1
- Sojourner Truth, “Speech to the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, 1851,” p. 832
- Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, pp.878-900
- Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”, pp. 996–1000, 1066–1070
Volume 2
- Booker T. Washington’s speech “The Atlanta Exposition Address” in Up from Slavery, pp. 469–479
- E.B. Du Bois, “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others” in The Souls of Black Folk, pp.559-561, 568–578
- Charles W. Chestnutt, “The Wife of His Youth,” pp. 479–481, 488–497
- Paul Laurence Dunbar, “We Wear the Mask,: pp. 633, 636
- Claude McKay, “If We Must Die,” pp. 934–936, 937
- Zora Neale Hurston, “Sweat,” pp. 948–958
- Countee Cullen, “Yet Do I Marvel,” pp. 105–-1054
- Richard Wright, “The Man Who Was Almost a Man,” pp. 1060–1070
- Robert Hayden, “Middle Passage,” pp. 1188–1192
- James Baldwin, “Going to Meet the Man,” pp. 1328–1338
- Toni Morrison, “Recitatif,” pp. 1403–1415
- Alice Walker, “Everyday Use,” pp. 1531–1536
Also this is the second student you have to respond to for the peer responses:
Stefania
1)Post at least one question/point in response to Lecture 5.
I think the reason why people like Benjamin Franklin, who were considered highly intelligent, still made the point black people were inferior had nothing to do with intelligence but is connected to guilt and accountability. Admitting that we were are just as intelligent and human meant for them to admit that they treated blacks inhumane and would have to address it.
2) In the conclusion of Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple, the narrator Celie says that the Fourth of July is not about celebrating American independence, but it’s about celebrating “us.” What do you think she means by this?
I will say a different perspective on this. July fourth is not the Independence Day for ADOS( African Descendants of Slaves). Our Independence day is Juneteenth . We were still slaves on July 4th. However, we still will use July 4th as a day to rest and spend time with family, cook, drink, and have fireworks. We don’t celebrate America on this day, we celebrate family and friends. Juneteenth is a day that is celebrated with the remembrance of our Ancestors who were freed.
3) Post at least one question/point about anything you have read in this unit.
In Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use,” the daughter is upset that her mother doesn’t give her the quilts because she believes she is the only one who can appreciate the culture. However, I believe that her sister using the quilts and taking the time to learn how to sew is her own way of honoring her ancestors. Also, she mentions how she doesn’t need physical items to remember past family.
4) What is the most significant thing you’ve learned from studying this unit?
The different works in this unit show the diverse range of stories by black authors. Reading these works helped me to understand how the world was at the time the work was written. It reminded me why I have the passion of reading. My favorite works to read were by Black authors because of their rich language and the rhythmic way the stories would flow. These works were a way to protest or state personal views that affected our world.
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