Alone Together: Hesitant Draft of Prompt and Book List
Brainstorming: I've never cared for the word "pandemic" because it sounds so much like "panic." So I've decided to take a moment to move from heart to head and consider the word's Greek roots:
Pan: All
Demos: People
Interestingly, the notions of "disease" and "contagion" don't live in this word; instead, "pandemic" simply refers to the whole of a population. In the current era of social distancing, "pandemic" is, ironically, a uniting word.
In the past two weeks, I've gone for a run every day. This not my normal habit (I'm more of an indoor group fitness kind of gal). As I jog up and down the hilly, concrete paths of Highlands Ranch, I see at least one person every 10 seconds. Compared to their usual solitary quiet, the paths are loud and busy right now with the footfalls of walkers, joggers, strollers, and dogs.
We are alone together.
Alright...what question do I really want to ask?
Here's a draft of my prompt so far:
(Note: I just stared at the screen for 10 minutes. I'm not quite sure what I want my prompt to be...)
Okay. Just type something. Get in 3rd person. How do these Q3 prompts typically start?
In many works of literature, there are characters who either choose solitude or are forced into solitary confinement. Often, these periods of solitude offer these characters a clear vision of themselves, of others, and/or of the world around them. Choose a novel or play of literary merit and compose an essay in which you identify a character who undergoes a period of solitude; explore the nature of the solitude, its effects on the character's view of humanity, and the ways in which the character's experience with solitude contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole.
Text List
East of Eden
All the Light We Cannot See
Beloved
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Giving Tree
The Great Gatsby
The Kite Runner
Parasite
Jojo Rabbit
"Acquainted with the Night" (Robert Frost)
"Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes" (Billy Collins)
"Maggie and Milly and Molly and May" (e.e. cummings)
Two reminders about the prompt:
A few reminders about the text list:
Pan: All
Demos: People
Interestingly, the notions of "disease" and "contagion" don't live in this word; instead, "pandemic" simply refers to the whole of a population. In the current era of social distancing, "pandemic" is, ironically, a uniting word.
In the past two weeks, I've gone for a run every day. This not my normal habit (I'm more of an indoor group fitness kind of gal). As I jog up and down the hilly, concrete paths of Highlands Ranch, I see at least one person every 10 seconds. Compared to their usual solitary quiet, the paths are loud and busy right now with the footfalls of walkers, joggers, strollers, and dogs.
We are alone together.
Alright...what question do I really want to ask?
Here's a draft of my prompt so far:
(Note: I just stared at the screen for 10 minutes. I'm not quite sure what I want my prompt to be...)
Okay. Just type something. Get in 3rd person. How do these Q3 prompts typically start?
In many works of literature, there are characters who either choose solitude or are forced into solitary confinement. Often, these periods of solitude offer these characters a clear vision of themselves, of others, and/or of the world around them. Choose a novel or play of literary merit and compose an essay in which you identify a character who undergoes a period of solitude; explore the nature of the solitude, its effects on the character's view of humanity, and the ways in which the character's experience with solitude contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole.
Text List
East of Eden
All the Light We Cannot See
Beloved
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Giving Tree
The Great Gatsby
The Kite Runner
Parasite
Jojo Rabbit
"Acquainted with the Night" (Robert Frost)
"Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes" (Billy Collins)
"Maggie and Milly and Molly and May" (e.e. cummings)
Two reminders about the prompt:
- Imitate the Q3 prompts that already exist (even though your responses won't imitate timed writings). Click here for the full list of previous Q3 prompts.
- You can adapt your Big Question Blog, or can you can make your question totally different. Just make it yours, and make it something you genuinely want to investigate right now.
A few reminders about the text list:
- The text list is about ALL novels, short stories, poems, films, etc. that have played a role in your understanding of / curiosity about the question you're posing in your prompt. You will NOT discuss all of these in your culminating blogs.
- There are a few important requirements about how many books need to be from our class, how much poetry you need, etc. This is in your blue folder and linked here.
PLEASE POST YOUR PROMPT AND BOOK LIST BY MIDNIGHT ON MARCH 31.
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