Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins ("The Slave Mother," 6, "The Slave Auction," 14, "A Mother's Heroism," 25, in Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects) https://books.google.com/books/about/Poems_on_Miscellaneous_Subjects.html?id=Uc_pAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Reading Journal Questions: How is reading poetry different from reading prose? How does Harper portray life under slavery?

Faulkner, William (short story to be chosen by group, option: "Pantaloon in Black") https://southinblackandwhite.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/faulkner_pantaloon-in-black.pdf Reading Journal Question: How is Rider grieving the loss of his wife? And how does the time in which this story takes place plays a part into how he grieves?

Hurston, Zora Neale (short story to be chosen by group, option: "The Gilded Six-Bits") https://www.lifelonglearningcollaborative.org/wp-content/uploads/hurston-the-gilded-six-bits.pdf Reading Journal Question: How does the character Slemmons represent the danger of wealth in the story? Additionally, what does the role of money represent or suggest about dealing of money in relationships?

Kafka, Franz ("In the Penal Colony" or other short piece to be chosen by group) http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~raha/793CA_web/PenalColony.pdf Reading Journal Question: What is the purpose of the Prisoner thematically? What impact does the matter of execution and his release have on Kafka's message?

T.S. Eliot "The Hollow Men" "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" Reading Journal Questions: From these poems, how does T.S Eliot portray the human psyche? How may his portrayals reflect in our current society? In what way are any aspects of the poems relatable

Chinua Achebe ("A Sacrificial Egg" or other short story chosen by group) Reading Journal Question: Why is the story titled "The Sacrificial Egg"? The story is more about smallpox than anything and the egg only appears once- what is the purpose/meaning of the egg? https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1959/04/the-sacrificial-egg/306021/