English 1006G
Prompt #21
15 October 2013
Sharing readings, posing questions

Reading each others' readings

Four groups of people have each read different sections of the script for Private Lives, and posted their inksheds on the experience.  As usual, if you have not done this, you need to go away and do it: you can't effectively share what you don't have. And if you haven't read the work and written about it, you have nothing to say about it to anyone else. If you have read it and posted, but since 1:00, you can go and print out a copy of your posting and bring it back. If you haven't, go do the assignment.

Here are the group members who had posted their inksheds as of 1:00. Each group will meet at a table and read each others' inksheds (I've printed them out, reformatted for reading). Read as usual, carefully, marking and commenting as is usual with inksheds. You should, also as usual, be looking for statements that you think striking -- interesting, insightful, wrong -- in any case, worth attending to, and possibly discussing. The group should agree on two or three statements that you'd like everybody to know about, and mark them clearly, by putting a box around the section of text you want attended to.

You'll also have a copy of your section of the script, for reference.

Pages 196 - 216
 		Pages 217 - 239
 		Pages 240 - 263
 		Pages 183 - 205
Meili Adam-Reimer
 Paige Boisvert
 Kennedy Bowden-Welsh
 Max Hennick
 Luke Mills
 Catherine Smith
 		Alexandra Albert Landry
 Wendy Little
 Mitchell Quondam
 Parise Saulnier
 Sean Harding
Teah Anderson
 Hannah Anstey
 Matthew Cripps
 Rachel Murphy
 Kali Pieters
 Melissa Stewart
 Alex White
 		Devan Barrieau
 Maggie Gunter
 Elizabeth Hannay
 Michelle Savoie
 Lindsay Shore
 Cayley Spray

Asking questions
After you've done this, go back through the inksheds -- and, as well, your section of the script -- thinking about questions about the play that you think might actually be answered, somehow, and whose answers you think might be useful or interesting in helping you understand or appropriately respond to the play. Bear in mind that these aren't examination questions, or questions "for discussion"; they should be real questions, which might actually have answers. It may take a while to come up with four or five questions, and you may need to go back through the text, looking for references or speeches or motives that it might be possible to understand (or understand better).

As you formulate them, write your questions out. When you're done, designate one member of the group to write them on one of the whiteboards, clearly enough that everyone can read them (questions should be shorter than about 20 words).

We'll begin by categorizing the questions and deciding which might actually be worth answering, and then we'll attend to the inkshed passages you identified as worth attending to.
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