First, we will be keeping a writer's notebook, full of ideas and thoughts, some focused on topics related to our shared reading, and some of our own choice. We are starting out the semester as we dive into A Streetcar Named Desire together. The background work was laid as your groups researched topics related to the setting.
Streetcar offers some essential questions (themes) we should consider as we read:
Life’s Journey: What does the individual learn from success
and failure?
Will to Power: Is power, by its nature, corruptive?
Indomitable Human
Spirit: How do individuals respond
to adversity and how does their response affect the greater society?
Inhumanity and
Alienation: What causes societies to
become unjust and how do indivuduals respond to injustice?
As you blog today (before we read), please post your thoughts about the questions on the pre-reading list of questions. You should also look over the questions above, and imagine what our play is about!
Happy New Year! Happy Blogging!
