During this unit, I learned a lot about the traditional themes that motivate the works of this time, and also the various important roles that take place in these works and how they affect both the plot and how they are perceived by others.
Through the works of this week’s unit, I learned the importance of these themes: Death, authenticity, desire, etc… and practiced my skill in analyzing them and really digging into the roles they play in their given work. Just like with the work from the Harlem Renaissance unit, I learned this not only from reading the works themselves, but also through the discussion questions and learning what others have thought as well.
During the upcoming units, I will be paying much more attention to common and/or recurring themes in works, or in just a singular work itself. I will pay extra attention to these as they can tell us a lot about the desired response from the author and the intended message that the author wants the reader to receive.
As a discussion leader for this unit, I really wanted to create a simple question that followed the questions I had been asking myself while studying this unit. Although simple, I wanted to create a question that could easily generate lots of conversation about the works in various ways. While I think I did a fine job of this, I did not get any responses to my question sadly- meaning that there wasn’t any discussion created. However, I felt that if there were any responses, a good, informative discussion could have easily been created both by myself and by my other classmates.
sydney poynter 