Prufrock and MIP Socratic

Please answer the following questions on your own; then you can start a discussion thread with others based on your questions and responses.  Be thorough, give SPECIFIC textual support if referencing the poem and challenge one another.

1.  How is T.S. Eliot's poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" a quintessential modernist poem? (Hence, what is Eliot criticizing through this narrator's voice?)
2.  Characterize the speaker in this poem.  How does this characterization mirror the feelings of modernism?
3.  In the poem, which line stood out to you the most?  Explicate its meaning and tell me why it resonates with you.
4.  How does Woody Allen's film, Midnight in Paris, reflect modernist values and tenets?

When you are finished, please ask a question that would spark some conversation about either the poem or the movie or the synthesis between them.

Please have a discussion with your classmates regarding your questions, and as you respond to one another, at the end of your responses, try to write another question to keep conversations moving forward.

Race, Class and Gender

Please answer the following questions?  Use textual support to back up your responses.

Did this reading give you any new  ideas or make you think differently?  Make sure to use specifics from the chapter, “Shifting the Center” to support your ideas.  How might you change your perceptions based on this reading?  This is a very open response, but it requires you understand its ideas and to discuss what they mean to you.
Also respond to how you view the power of words.  What do they do?  Why are they powerful? What effect do they really have when it comes to what we say and how we perceive?

Act 4 Socratic Discussion Thread

Today we are going to have a discussion thread based on Act 4 of The Crucible. Answer my questions first and I want you to respond to at least 2 others, make comments, using textual support, and I always want you to end with a question-interpretative for right now.  I will move us to critical questions later.
I do not want one word responses; I expect formal writing and intelligent thought showing your discerning observations and analysis. Please keep in mind the ideological statements and central questions as a means of helping you to analyze further.  Depth is a must!

To start, please answer the following 3 of the 4 questions; you must answer number 4:

1.  Who is to blame for what happened?  Can the people of Salem's actions be excused by the cultural hysteria, or is it the individual's fault?  Find evidence to support both sides.

2.  As you read this act, what spoke to you the most or evoked the most emotion?  What quote was the most powerful and why?

3.  How does individual judgment play a role in this Act? Find one example and relay its significance.

4.  Think about the definition of an allegory; we know this text is an allegory for the time period during which Miller lived.-list 2-3 characters, events, or facets of setting that you think are allegorical from the play and what do they correspond to specifically?

When you finish, make sure you ask questions and begin responding to others. Textual support is mandatory! F5 refreshes the page; make sure to respond to different people; challenge one another, question each other; help each other to see the significance of the text.

Inspiration

Please answer the following prompts:  Be honest and specific:

1.  What inspires YOU?

2.  How are you staking your identity?

3.  What keeps you from finding that identity or being who you are (or do you even know who that is yet?)