List your close reading ideas below next to the appropriate date.  Be sure to include page numbers, as well as a description of where the passage is in relation to chapter beginnings or endings.  In addition, give it a meaningful title that gives some indication of what you thought could be focused on in that passage.  If you think it's a good passage for an OED close reading, then be sure to list the word or words that you think will work.

10/28 (3 people) Regina Flanigan: Ch 2 pear tree passage, growing into a woman/leaving childhood, expectations for life (esp. romance) Sign up to do this one: Nicole, Regina

Suggestion (Julie Reitzi): Last paragraph of Ch 3 - womanhood, natural world 

10/30 (3 people) Julie Reitzi, Kaci Neves, Jody

p. 71-72 death of the spirit of marriage - comparison to pear tree (Jody H.)

all of Chapter 7- Janie and Jody playing the dozens/ voice/ oral tradition (Julie Reitzi)

Ch.6 65-66 Debate between Lige and Sam. Nature vs. Caution. (Kaci Neves)

11/2 (3 people) Cameron, Sarah, Julie Reitzi, Anjel,

Ch. 9 "Joe's funeral...Janie had tried to show her shine."- Dreams/ Aspirations, Life through death, Freedom (Julie) 

Ch. 10 p. 95-96 and Ch. 11 p. 101 - Game of checkers and how it relates to Janie's liberation/relationship with Tea Cake (Anjel)

Ch. 8- "A sound of strife...'Mah husband is gone from me'"- Joe's death, Janie's revival/renewal, voice.

Ch. 13- "Janie waited till midnight...So her soul crawled out from its hiding place" Gender roles, Hurston vs. dialogue, character, Janie's acceptance of Tea Cake and vice versa. (Cameron)

11/4 (2 people)

Ch. 16, particularly bottom of 144-146 - the character of Mrs. Turner and how she represents race relations in the novel;(Nicole)

Ch. 19, 168-173-How Racism is presented when Tea Cake gets sent to the burial crew; contrast to Hurston's treatment of Mrs. Turner (Joel)  

Ch. 15, Janie's jealousy of Tea Cake with Nunkie and her standing up for herself as a woman about it; (Kelly)

11/6 (2 people) Oscar, Rosie - Symbolism of the freedom and death of the mule. (Oscar)