2. Read page 188-210 and continue organic tabbing (look for patterns)
3. Journal #1 posted on your blog. You should consistently alternate between the categories of creative, analytic, and comparative at a ratio of 1:2:3. On your blog, include the prompt you are responding to and tag which category each falls in to (there is place to do this underneath your blog post that says "labels for this post"). Below is a list of prompts (you also have a green hard copy with the same list).
Creative:
- Conversations between characters and/or authors
- Letters the characters might have written
- Diary entries from any of the characters
- An informal personal essay on the topic: to journey
- Reactions to specific situations by characters
- A poem written by one of the characters, or a found poem on a character or the environment
Discussion on literary topics:
- Point of View/Characters: From whose point of view is the story told? Does this change? How reliable is the narrative voice? How well does the reader get to know the characters? How credible are they? How are they presented? How does the writer persuade us to like/sympathize with some characters and dislike others?
- Setting: This includes cultural as well as geographical and historical setting. What effect does the setting have on story, character, theme?
- Narrative structure: How has the plot (not the story) been constructed? Are their parts? Is the plot circular? Subplots? How important/effective is the ending? Has everything been revealed by the end or are there unanswered questions? Does this matter? What period of time has been covered? Is time important?
- Stylistic techniques (imagery, figurative language, sensory detail)
- Themes and ideas
- Notes from a brainstorm session on “outrageous links” between any two of the plays
Comparison
- Readers are attracted to moments of intensity in a writer’s work. By what means and with what effect have writers in your study offered heightened emotional moments designed to arrest the reader’s attention?
- Personal convictions and shared beliefs, the private and the public life, sometimes seem at odds in the modern world. How did you find your chosen works touched on this conflict, and with what effect?
- “Visual action can be as important on the stage as speech.” How far do you agree with this claim? In you answer you should refer to two or three plays you have studied.
- “Not rounding off, but opening out.” Comment upon the way the writers deal with the ending in relation to the whole. In your answer you should refer to two or three of the works you have studied.
- To what extent would you agree that plot should be valued more highly than style in the work. In you answer you should refer to two or three works you have studied.
- To what extent have you found it possible, in your consideration of literary works, to separate the individual from his or her public role? In you answer you should refer to any two or three works you have studied.
- Compare how writers in your study have explored the themes of judgment and punishment, or disguise and deceit, or love and friendship, and with what effect.
- “What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out?” To what extent do you find this statement applicable in at least two plays you have studied?
- A dramatist often creates a gap between what the audience knows and what the characters know. With reference to at least two plays, discuss how and to what effect dramatists have used this technique.
- “Defiance becomes our duty in the face of injustice.” Referring to at least two works you have studied, explore the ways in which writers have attempted to persuade us to accept or challenge this view.
- A writer usually attempts to create a bond of trust between writer and reader. How and to what extent have at least two writers you have studied been able to elicit your trust?
- What are the questions that underlie at least two of the works that you have read and how have the authors sought to answer those questions?
- “Although doubt is not a pleasant condition, certainty is an absurd one.” In the light of this statement, explore the impressions of doubt and/or certainty conveyed in at least two works you have studied.
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