For this week, students will respond to the essay EFs Visit to a Small Planet: Some Questions to Ask About a Play.
The response is intended to provoke thoughtful analysis, discussion, questions, and creative & critical thinking from your fellow students, as well as expand on a thought, issue, or interest, from the assigned play. Your provocation is required to follow the following format
: 1) Identify a challenging idea or concept from the required play, using direct quotation or paraphrasing with citation, and offer a point of view about the idea or concept (do you agree, disagree, are you confused by the idea?, etc.)
2) ask a question based on that challenging idea or concept
3) Discuss that question making connections to the larger themes and ideas of the course
EXAMPLE
Was Rochdale a Good Idea?
David Yees play, Rochdale, presents Rochdale College in a comedic but very telling
light. Amidst all the plays jokes, it shows the reader the genuine hellscape that was Rochdale
College and the terrible events that the governing council had to deal with on a regular basis.
Even aside from the drug dealers and other crashers that lived unchecked within Rochdale,
GovCon must deal with the deaths of the people that reside in the building. The Bell Jar
situation they deal with in the play is said to be the third one this year (Yee, 42).
My question is why on earth did the founders of Rochdale think this was a good idea?
I understand their drive make education more accessible, but didnt they realize that by
providing free housing with minimal regulations that squatters would come in and take residence
without going through the proper channels? I dont understand how people could even
realistically learn in an environment like that. The whole Rochdale project seems like a lost
cause from the start because those who wanted to start it didnt think it through at all.
Work Cited
Yee, David. Rochdale. Playwrights Guild of Canada, 2021.
Work Cited
Yee, David. Rochdale. Playwrights Guild of Canada, 2021.
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