What insights into education does Shange’s work address?
Part 1: Due 3/30/2022 by 8pm
Discussion: Poetry: Characters and Styles
Poetry is a language translated by the reader. Discernable sentiments and messages rise to the top as you may consider and reconsider the more obscure or “hidden” meanings surrounding the words on the page. You have the opportunity in this week’s Discussion to deconstruct the complexity of Shange’s work through the exploration of a character from her poem while exploring qualities and styles of poetry.
To prepare for this Discussion:
- Read and listen to each of the Shange poems linked in this week’s Learning Resources. Listen carefully to the voices and words of the different characters. Choose one of the female characters from the five included poems. For these poems, the characters include: Lady in Yellow, Lady in Orange, Lady in Blue, Lady in Red, and Lady in Purple.
- What aspects of the character you chose are readily apparent? What are you most curious about regarding this character that is not directly apparent?
- Consider references to formal and/or non-formal education that you identify in association with the character you chose and/or other characters in these five poems? For example, how does Shange communicate a character’s sense of knowledge of herself or an issue? In what ways do the women educate one another?
- Review examples of poetry from this course to get a sense of the range of styles of poetry. For example, consider the style of Rita Dove’s poem from Week 4 and review a sample of poems from websites provided in this week’s Optional Resources.
With these thoughts in mind:
Part 2: Due by 4/1/2022
Post a 2- to 3-paragraph description of the character you selected from Shange’s poem, including her emotional and physical self. Explain how this character represents the concepts of expression, perspective, and social change. How is the style of poetry in Shange’s work different from other styles of poetry?
By Day 5
Respond to at least one of your colleague’s postings in one or more of the following ways:
- What insights into education does Shange’s work address?
- Build on the ideas presented by your peer by expanding on or providing a new example of how concepts of expression, perspective, and social change are apparent through the character chosen.
Part 3: Due by 4/2/2022
Assignment: Education Analyzed Through Nonfiction and Fiction
Perhaps you come from a long line of women who had access to formal education, or perhaps you are the first in your family to attend a university. Education is more than learning fundamental skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic. It is access to opportunity and choice that you may or may not take for granted. Although the value of formal education is inestimable, it does not replace or undermine what women have always had access to—their own knowledge, learned and shared with families and communities—gained through life experience.
In this week’s Assignment, you consider the styles of creative nonfiction and fiction to relay messages concerning women’s education experience.
To prepare for this Assignment:
- Review the brief biographies of Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, and Ntozak Shange in the Women’s Voices and Social Change timeline media piece.
- Review the Angelou and Walker readings from this week’s Learning Resources to uncover the authors’ perspectives on the value of education.
- Review the “Glossary of Terms and Techniques for Literature and Creative Writing” document for descriptions of creative nonfiction and fiction.
- How would you describe the difference between the two styles of writing? Do you have a preference? Why?
- Consider people in your life who may have a strong sense of mother wit—natural wit or intelligence or innate knowledge. What distinguishes people with this type of knowledge?
The Assignment:
Write a 2-page analysis of women’s educational experience as depicted in the works of Angelou and Walker. Include evidence of formal education and mother wit. How do these works support your understanding of formal education vs. mother wit?
Resources:
https://cdn-media.waldenu.edu/2dett4d/Walden/ENGL/2050/CH/mm/womens_voices_timeline/index.html
Shange, N. (1997). For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. New York, NY: Scribner.
Reprinted by the permission of Russell & Volkening as agents for the author. Copyright 1993 by Ntozake Shange.
These poems are part of Ntozake Shange’s award-winning “choreopoem,” for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf. The choreopoem is performed by seven women identified only by the colors they wear. Below you will find five of the poems (more are in Week 6).
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