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A Raisin in the Sun DJ Topics by Act & Scene

■ I Can recognize how Hansberry successfully uses the vernacular in a powerful and poetic manner

■ I can Understand Archetypal representations of masculinity and femininity.

■ I can Analyze and support the analysis with textual evidence

■ Write dialectical journals and use it as a method to look closely at a specific element.

Act I, scene i

Theme: Personal Dreams

Differences between generations:

Instructions: explain and proves the theme

of personal dreams focusing on differences between generations in this scene.

Act I, scene ii

Themes:

1. Definition of Freedom

2. Self Prejudice: hating oneself and wishing one was “other”. Slaves wanted physical freedom: Beneatha and Walter want another kind of freedom.

DJ Task: Identify the kind of freedom each of these characters want and explain why they do not have that freedom

Act II,, scene i

Themes :

1. Can Differences Unite Us? Are We More Alike Than We Are Different?

2. Dichotomy of Identity: George vs. Asaigai

3. Racial Tensions.

DJ Task: Dichotomy means the division into two parts. Looking at these two characters in the play, determine how they identify themselves personally and how they fit into a society that is oppressed and the brunt of racial prejudice. Identify how they are different and similar.

Act II, scene ii

Themes:

1. Prejudice Within a Community:

2. Assimilation vs. Anti-assimilation

3. Male vs. Female

4. Educated vs. Uneducated

5. Money vs. Poverty

DJ Task: Choose between the four topics connecting the one you choose to prejudice within the very community the Younger’s live in. Define how prejudice in present the play and connect it to prejudice today. This could be something you have experienced or

something you have observed.

Act II, scene iii

Themes:

1. What if the realization of your dream means someone else’s won’t be realized?

a. Clybourned Park Community

b. Walter’s Store

DJ Task: Write your comments about this in a series of questions/comments from the perspective of the person who’s dream is being sacrificed. In other words, what questions/comments would Beneatha have for Walter if Mama had given him the full $10,000? Etc.

Act III

Themes:

1. Redefining Dreams and Fulfillment of Dreams:

a. Walter: Money for Family – Family Pride

b. Beneatha: Recognition in the Eyes of Others (medical school)

c. Recognition of Self (finding identity)

d. Mama: Fulfillment of Dreams: Is it Really Just a House?

DJ Task Comment on one of these character’s dreams. Be thoughtful in your response and relate yourself in this theme.

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