3 April - 9 April
Section outline
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Transcendentalism. R. Waldo Emerson: Self-Reliance.
PŘÍPRAVA:
- read the ppt "The South" (see below); prepare comments, questions about it, research facts that are not explained in depth - be ready to share some of these with the class
- read a short story by Richard Wright, "Big Boy Leaves Home" (from Uncle Tom´s Children, 1938): http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/w_right.html
Prepare written notes on the theme, the plot, the language of the narrative (of the narrator, of the characters).