Guiding Question: What needs to be said? Who needs to say it? Who can say it?
Guiding Question: What is language's potential here?
Guiding Question: How is his speech an attempt at living beyond the obvious potential sentence if his speech fails? What is language's power here?
Connecting Question: What kinds of translations are happening in Mandela, Lorde, and Alexi?
Personal Reflection Questions:
Inspired by Ferre: What is your metaphor between worlds/identites?
Inspired by Mandela: Have you ever had to use language to humanize yourself to someone else?
Inspired by Silko: How / did story work in your family?
Inspired by Lorde, "Poetry Is Not.A Luxury": What have/do you give up if you don't speak in the ways you need to?
Inspired by Lorde, "Uses of Anger": What do you speak out of? Is it useful?
Inspired by Alexie: What part of your identity has been contested? What are the moments from your life that reflect that?
Inspired by Mandela: Have you ever had to use language to humanize yourself to someone else?
Inspired by Silko: How / did story work in your family?
Inspired by Lorde, "Poetry Is Not.A Luxury": What have/do you give up if you don't speak in the ways you need to?
Inspired by Lorde, "Uses of Anger": What do you speak out of? Is it useful?
Inspired by Alexie: What part of your identity has been contested? What are the moments from your life that reflect that?