Minimum Requirements:
Collaborate over the next class, and upload final draft to turnitin.com: one per group.
850-950 words
MLA format
No outside sources may be used
Upload to turnitin.com
Review both the text and the audio performance of Darkside: A Radio Play to identify a theme.
Possible themes are:
The Nature of Kindness
The Global Warming/Ecological theme
The Search for Meaning
Sanity versus Insanity (Is Emily insane? What are the causes? What is the play’s standard for what is sane?)
Analyze the play to identify the theme and then look at how it is developed.
Prompt:
Construct an essay that explains to your readers what the theme is and how it fits into the story of Darkside: A Radio Play.
Everything you need to know about the theme and its relationship to the play is in the play. Do not bring in outside information. As you reread the play, highlight passages that help to develop the theme. Select the important scenes and take notes on how they help develop the theme—keeping in mind that these scenes also contribute to your overall understanding of the play.
Make a tentative claim to start. This is your main idea; something along the lines of
“Emily’s search for meaning brings together many ideas about philosophy, self, and community that help make Darkside such a relevant story.”
You may want to create an idea cluster to help you collect these ideas on paper, so that you can then identify the connections between them. You may also want to develop an outline that can help you best organize your supports for your claim.
