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​= > > 6 Degrees of Separation > > Overarching theme of "Identity" > Identities of note throughout: = Assigments:
 * [[file:Unit schedule (revised).docx]][[file:Unit schedule.docx]]
 * Right, let's figure this out..
 * Poverty v. Affluence
 * Art appreciation - Kandinsky, Cezanne
 * Character charts Paul, Ouisa, Flan
 * Importance of language
 * Rocking Horse Winner?
 * Black v. White culture
 * Paul and the pink shirt - exploration of colour and symbolism
 * Sidney Poitier - Analysis, why him?
 * South Africa -apartheid
 * Antje Krog //Country of My Skull,// excerpt to establish the issue of minority identity amidst a forcefully dominant culture.
 * Blues I'm Playing; Cross - Langston Hughes
 * Homosexuality v. heterosexuality <--- Does this fit or does it seem forced? **I think definately relevant and worthy of discussion**
 * **LGBTQ issues**
 * **Expression of non-conventional love - poetry? short story?**
 * **Decadance v. restraint**
 * **Oscar Wilde exerpts from Dorien Gray?**
 * **Paul's Case - Willa Cather**
 * **Fin de Siecle: anxieties/anticipations at turn of centuries (Six Degrees same idea in a way?)**
 * **Possible short story (novella): Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: duplicity, definately about identity but this time we see other side, homosexual undertones, societal whispering/anxieties, blackmail???**
 * **Formally Educated v. Self taught**
 * ** Along these lines Self-reinvention and America's obsession with it. **
 * ** Examination of countless celebrities. **
 * **Small World Interconnectedness vs. Separation**
 * **In-class exercise to model theory**
 * **Malcom Gladwell excerpt from The Tipping Point "connectors"**
 * **Ouise and Flan (terrible match quote)**
 * **Theory still as relevant or changed in past two decades?**
 * **Low-Brow vs. High Culture Art**
 * ** Re: CATS in the play **
 * **Excerpts from Matthew Arnold, Harold Bloom**
 * **I.E. Shakespeare vs. Dan Brown or Mozart vs. Britney Spears (maybe not this ridiculous but something like it)**
 * **Discussion on merits of art (who decides?)**
 * **Mini-class debate?**
 * **Mini-class debate?**
 * **painting analysis ( provide 2 or 3 paintings, have them write up a 1 page analysis)**
 * **Exercise in the Imagination: Journal Response to a couple different pieces of music?**
 * **Small class exercise: Imagine and write the dialogue between Ouise and Paul if they had met at the Waverly Theatre before the police arrived.**
 * **Identity poem (Creative composition on their identity**
 * **Dramatic reenactment**
 * **Final Essay (comparative?**

Skills needed to effectively learn > Add to these as you both see fit. We should get going on things
 * skills to interpret a painting
 * Grammar and form recap and instruction
 * poetic interpretation
 * Creative poetry writing techniques
 * Review of literary conventions
 * Elements of effective dramatic presentations
 * Essay skills (comparative?)


 * Skills needed to do the unit successfully

Summative Assessment: Visually Evidenced Essay** It is a little rough at the moment. I am working on the marking rubric. Esssentially, I envision a close reading style essay, which may discuss an array of topics that are present in //Six Degrees of Separation.// As well, I have the students posting their finished essays on a Wiki, to make it more interactive and allow their visual evidence to be linked directly to their writings.