Seminar Log Halloween Special
(Smells like readings.)
1:15 Start of Kim’s Lecture
1:16: Private Free Write
1:19: Focused Free Write
What is Solitude and Is It A Good Thing?
- Person isolates themselves. Person gives themselves time to get together (Venecia)
- Solitude is a good thing in moderation (Kaila & Antoine)
- Being in solitude is a bad thing and can help you with your mistakes (Isaiah)
1:24: Active Reading to Ode on Solitude [130]
- Boring because possibly talking about a farm (DaShanae)
- Things that would lead to being a loner (Isaiah)
- Enjoying solitude and living the way things are (Kim)
- Content with dying alone
- Wrote the poem when he was 12 years old (Kim)
- Many children pick on people with disabilities (Tamia)
- Morbid for a 12-year-old, didn’t expect it from a child but an old man instead (Ms. Pruyn)
Opinions?
- Enjoys being in solitude and enjoys the things around him (Tamia)
- Finds innocence and peace (Isaiah)
Why?
- Someone having defects is seen as scary and no one wants them around (Isaiah)
- Connection to Hunchback of Notre Dame [Published in 1831] (DaShanae)
- Most people didn’t defend living in the country (Ms. Pruyn)
- A way to soothe his force of solitude (Isaiah)
- People with disabilities are accepted now, but still keeps a distance
- Be in solitude but manage it as well (Kim)
- Does knowing the background of the poet changes your view on the poem?
- Becomes personal at the end of the poem (Jawan)
Was It A Way to Deal With The Situation
- Finding a way to deal with it (Juwan)
- By being alone, he had no one to be around and was an event (Tamia)
1:42 Privacy by C.D. Wright
- Not respecting other people’s privacy (Venecia)
- Personification of the poem (DaShanae)
- When someone walks in, they want to know more about that person (Isaiah)
- Talking about the nature of privacy (Kylar)
- Brought a train of thought out (Kim)
- Stream of consciousness (DaShanae)
- About a woman dying, each section alluded to it (Kim)
How Does The Poem Connect to The Title
- Does connect because when a family member dies, the family or close friends need their privacy (Alex)
- Look through a glass dress and violates a person’s privacy (Isaiah)
- Focuses on the moments before death, seen as the ultimate privacy (Ms. Pruyn)
- “Cake” (Dashanae)
2:00 ~End of Kim’s Lecture ~
2:13: Free Write Loop
- Privacy is violated every day, and in ways we allow consequences to happen (Alex)
“Black America’s State of Surveillance”
- Black people’s privacy is invaded because of their skin (Venecia)
“Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom”
- Leadership emerged in the communities (Venecia)
- After the Haitian Revolution. When they arrived in Louisiana, they made up their own independence (Christina)
- Swamps are usually found in the swamp (DaShanae)
- Just because there’s no written history, doesn't mean it shouldn’t be ignored (Kylar)
- How limited history can be (Jawan)
- Rather have mosquitoes than lashes on your back (DaShanae)
- Keep mind intact, you’d still have privacy in your mind (Isaiah)
- Is it worth risking your life if you still have your mental privacy?
History of Louisiana
- French Quarter started off as a fort and everything else was mostly swamp (Christina)
- Everyone else would live around the edges. (Venecia)
- Slaves built the French Quarter (Christina and Antoine)
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