Advanced Placement, Lang; "Invisible Man," Ralph Ellison, First Semester

Prologue: Invisible Man, Ralph EllisonPublished:1952.  581 pages. Lesson plans: Dialectic Journals, AP style quizzes and testsComprehensive View of Powerful Novel. Coupled with Ralph Ellison's "The Man Who Lived Underground." Invisible Man Unit: 91 pages, 34,550 words, some imagesDialectic Journal"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination—indeed, everything and anything except me. Nor is my invisibility exactly a matter of a biochemical accident to my epidermis.         That invisibility to w