Hey ENG folks!
We are the group who's organizing discussion on Darkroom for Tuesday! Our group feels that this memoir is super charged and we understand that it might surface some very intense emotions. Because of that....
We have ONE REQUIRED blog prompt below, to help us check the temperature of the room, and SEVERAL OPTIONAL blog prompts, in case you find them useful!
Required Blog Prompt:
What are 3 words to describe how you felt when you were reading Darkroom?
Optional Blog Prompts:
Thank you for reading! We are very excited for the discussion on Tuesday! Our group will do its part to create a safe space in the room that will enable an enriching dialogue around this memoir.
We are the group who's organizing discussion on Darkroom for Tuesday! Our group feels that this memoir is super charged and we understand that it might surface some very intense emotions. Because of that....
We have ONE REQUIRED blog prompt below, to help us check the temperature of the room, and SEVERAL OPTIONAL blog prompts, in case you find them useful!
Required Blog Prompt:
What are 3 words to describe how you felt when you were reading Darkroom?
Optional Blog Prompts:
- The craft - illustration, collage, angles
- photography
- Parallells - how does the turmoil of the political climate affect the narrators consciousness? (the personal is political and the political is personal)
- Becoming "Americanized" --> in reference to her sister
- Racial identity and the "in-between" space
- Migration
- Role of religion in the memoir
- the imaginary, or the imagination of a homeland
- Racism inside and outside of the US
- metaphors - gray, frame, perspective
Thank you for reading! We are very excited for the discussion on Tuesday! Our group will do its part to create a safe space in the room that will enable an enriching dialogue around this memoir.
- Annie, Lucy, Trinidad & Shaina
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