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This is the area to write down if there's something we felt went over our heads. Maybe a peer can clarify...or we can be lost together

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"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."

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"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."

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"Smiles, bells, parades, horses, bleh. If so, please add an orgy. If an orgy would help, don't hesitate."

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"Smiles, bells, parades, horses, bleh. If so, please add an orgy. If an orgy would help, don't hesitate."

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How does the rhythm of Leguin's sentences shift as the subject matter shifts?

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How does the rhythm of Leguin's sentences shift as the subject matter shifts?

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What is the narrative structure LeGuin using in the piece? How does that impact the moral dilemma of the piece at the end?

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What is the narrative structure LeGuin using in the piece? How does that impact the moral dilemma of the piece at the end?

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Would you leave Omelas or would you stay? Would you do something different? Could you?

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Would you leave Omelas or would you stay? Would you do something different? Could you?

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What role does art and the artist play in the world of Omelas? 

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What role does art and the artist play in the world of Omelas? 

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Is this an immoral society? In which ways is it different than our own? In which ways is it the same?

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Is this an immoral society? In which ways is it different than our own? In which ways is it the same?

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Ursula K Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omela"

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Ursula K Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omela"

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"Soon they had a third row of people clinging to the people clinging to the five. They all starfished out on the surface of the water."

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"Soon they had a third row of people clinging to the people clinging to the five. They all starfished out on the surface of the water."

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How does Hopkinson's treatment of the end of the story (especially on a sentence level) impact the conclusion of the story?

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How does Hopkinson's treatment of the end of the story (especially on a sentence level) impact the conclusion of the story?

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Do you find Hopkinson's language and/or use of dialect immersive or isolating as a reader? Another experience?

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Do you find Hopkinson's language and/or use of dialect immersive or isolating as a reader? Another experience?

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What do you think our protagonist is up to? How are they implicated in the events of the narrative?

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What do you think our protagonist is up to? How are they implicated in the events of the narrative?

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Even if you've never heard of the myth of the leggobeast, what do you think they are? What would yours look like?

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Even if you've never heard of the myth of the leggobeast, what do you think they are? What would yours look like?

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The story, unlike the others, offer us a brief author's note. What do you make of the idea knowing what inspired the piece before reading it? 

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The story, unlike the others, offer us a brief author's note. What do you make of the idea knowing what inspired the piece before reading it? 

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This is the area to write down if there's something that we felt went over our heads. Maybe a peer can clarify...or we can be lost together

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Instead of stating what we liked or didn't like, we need to practice deep reading of the text like a writer. 

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Doing the Right Thing: Leanne Samosake Simpson

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Doing the Right Thing: Leanne Samosake Simpson

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Does this work relate to your aesthetic tastes? Why or why not? Does this impact the way you read the work?

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Does this work relate to your aesthetic tastes? Why or why not? Does this impact the way you read the work?

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What surprised me about this text and/or what felt predictable in this work?

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What surprised me about this text and/or what felt predictable in this work?

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What is the historical, sociological, cultural context of this work? What might I be missing?

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What is the historical, sociological, cultural context of this work? What might I be missing?

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What do people think about the opening line?

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What do people think about the opening line?

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"I look him in the eye in a way that makes him feel unsafe, and wrong. Threatened. Like he has met his match. I do not look away."

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"I look him in the eye in a way that makes him feel unsafe, and wrong. Threatened. Like he has met his match. I do not look away."

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What were your first impressions of Lau's narrator? Did it change at all throughout the text?

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What were your first impressions of Lau's narrator? Did it change at all throughout the text?

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What was surprising about the story? Were there moments that were disinteresting or predictable?

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What was surprising about the story? Were there moments that were disinteresting or predictable?

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What did you think about the ending of Lau's narrative? What impact did it have on your reading of the text?

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What did you think about the ending of Lau's narrative? What impact did it have on your reading of the text?

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If you were to guess, how do you think this short story should be categorized? (literary fiction, speculative, romance, biographical, other?)

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If you were to guess, how do you think this short story should be categorized? (literary fiction, speculative, romance, biographical, other?)

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"I open the menu and order a hamburger and fries because it is something familiar and I am in an unfamiliar situation"

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"I open the menu and order a hamburger and fries because it is something familiar and I am in an unfamiliar situation"

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This is the area to write down if there's something that we felt went over our heads. Maybe a peer can clarify...or we can be lost together

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“Was his memory failing or had he so disciplined it in the repression of unpleasant facts that he had damaged his sense of the truth?”

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“Was his memory failing or had he so disciplined it in the repression of unpleasant facts that he had damaged his sense of the truth?”

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This is the area to write down if there's something that we felt went over our heads. Maybe a peer can clarify...or we can be lost together

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This was written in 1964. Are there elements of the story that reflect the time it was written?

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This was written in 1964. Are there elements of the story that reflect the time it was written?

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What were your general thoughts of the ending of the story?

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What were your general thoughts of the ending of the story?

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How is repetition in the first paragraph of "The Swimmer" effecting the reading of the story?

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How is repetition in the first paragraph of "The Swimmer" effecting the reading of the story?

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Chang is blending surrealism in these piece. By slanting reality, how does this impact your reading of the themes explored?

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Chang is blending surrealism in these piece. By slanting reality, how does this impact your reading of the themes explored?

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Which of the 25 widows stood out to you the most? What did the widow tell about the protagonist/ the writer?

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Which of the 25 widows stood out to you the most? What did the widow tell about the protagonist/ the writer?

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The opening sentence has a semi-colon and multiple clauses. How did you experience the first paragraph of the story?

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The opening sentence has a semi-colon and multiple clauses. How did you experience the first paragraph of the story?

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This is the area to write down if there's something we felt went over our heads. Maybe a peer can clarify...or we can be lost together

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"Everyone is looking at something a child can't see"

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"Everyone is looking at something a child can't see"

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“One boy was whistling a tune, at once very complicated and very simple, it seemed to be pouring out of him as though he were a bird, and it sounded very cool and moving through all that harsh, bright air, only just holding its own through all those other sounds”

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“One boy was whistling a tune, at once very complicated and very simple, it seemed to be pouring out of him as though he were a bird, and it sounded very cool and moving through all that harsh, bright air, only just holding its own through all those other sounds”

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This story was written in 1957 when racial segregation was still active in America.  It is also set in Harlem. How does the setting impact the narrative?

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This story was written in 1957 when racial segregation was still active in America.  It is also set in Harlem. How does the setting impact the narrative?

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What elements of craft do you witness in "Sonny's Blues" throughout the final scene? 

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What elements of craft do you witness in "Sonny's Blues" throughout the final scene? 

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How does Baldwin weave jazz into the language of the story? What do you notice musically?

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How does Baldwin weave jazz into the language of the story? What do you notice musically?

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What are some of the themes and/or emotions that surfaced while reading the final performance?

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What are some of the themes and/or emotions that surfaced while reading the final performance?

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What are your first impressions of the protagonist's brother? Are these impressions altered after meeting Sonny in the story?

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What are your first impressions of the protagonist's brother? Are these impressions altered after meeting Sonny in the story?

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This is the area to write down if there's something that we felt went over our heads. Maybe a peer can clarify...or we can be lost together

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"Moonwatching was the process by which you wooed a woman down from her night perch"

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"Moonwatching was the process by which you wooed a woman down from her night perch"

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Have you read a story in vignettes before? How did the short sections impact your reading of the story?

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Have you read a story in vignettes before? How did the short sections impact your reading of the story?

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The narrator in "The Swimmer" uses the words like “might” “seemed to” and how does this colour the story as a whole?

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The narrator in "The Swimmer" uses the words like “might” “seemed to” and how does this colour the story as a whole?

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This is the area to write down if there's something that we felt went over our heads. Maybe a peer can clarify...or we can be lost together

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The final stanza is inspired by Hopkinson's prompt about choosing the "bang" or choosing the "whimper"