Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Research Word Bank

For the library on Thursday, 3/19 it might be helpful to have done the following:

Research Word Bank: Make the Exotic Subject Familiar

Commonality. Connections. Rather than looking at a subject as completely foreign, ask and imagine how you may relate to it.

- Make a list of some of the themes and subjects that come out of your pre-writing discussions and activities

- Add to the list your answers to "What are your interests: music, art, language, TV, gender, ????"


War
Suicide
Poverty
Food source/ hunger
Language barriers
Music
Genocide
Gentrification
Lower class in new society à starting over
Education
Drugs
Alcoholism
Loss of family
Identity issues
Displacement
Civic duty
Civic death???
Technology
Religious beliefs
Slavery
Human trafficking
isolation

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