sharing what we know
The Web, and today's discussion, and the Web again
What the prompt from last Friday said (in part) was:
By next Wednesday, you should have posted a research report on your Web site, posted a reflection on reading The Hostage on the appropriate Forum, and, if you choose, posted one on reading Unidentified Human Remains on that Forum.I've printed out all the postings I found on line as of about five minutes before class this morning. I've also printed the few research reports people have posted to their Web sites, along with a couple of pages from an introduction to a collection of Behan's plays. This material will form the basis for what we'll do this morning, and then for what you need to do between now and 8:00 tonight, when both of the plays open.
We'll take most of our time this morning to read, and then talk about, the material on The Hostage, and then we'll look more quickly at the ones on Unidentified Human Remains. I'll set up some reading groups to avoid excessive duplication of the material. Read what you can, and mark passages you think are particularly worth noting (because you hadn't thought of them, because you disagree, because they're interesting), and select a couple you'd like to bring to everyone else's attention. We'll do a round, in which everybody will be invited to draw our attention to what they've chosen.
This isn't much time for getting into the issues, but we'll be discussing both plays afterward. Between now and tonight at 8:00, you should read all the postings on The Hostage on the Forum, and respond thoughtfully to at least two of them. If you've decided to use Unidentified Human Remains as one of your plays for the term, you should do the same thing for the Forum on that play.
You need to attend the production of The Hostage this week, and if you're using Unidentified Human Remains as one of your plays, that one too, and to post a reflection on your experience of the production on the Forum within the next week.
Friday
On Friday we'll spend some time sharing experiences and expectations of the two productions, and I'll introduce the concept of weekly learning reflections, which we'll begin this week.