Author Archives: Susan Farrell

Please respond to anything that interested you in Poet X.  Here are some prompts to get you started thinking: Discuss Xiomara’s physical body–how does she feel about her physicality at the beginning of the book and how does this change as … Continue reading →

Choose one of the four contemporary poems on the syllabus for tonight and discuss it.  In your discussion, you might want to do one of the following things: Provide a short explication of the poem, talking about what the poem … Continue reading →

For class today, please respond to anything that interested you in the second half of In the Time of the Butterflies.  Here are some prompts to get you started.  (I’ve included some from last week, since no one responded to them, … Continue reading →

Please respond to anything that particularly interested you in the first half of In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez.  Here are some prompts to get you started thinking: What do you think makes some of the characters resist … Continue reading →

Here are some questions you can respond to to get you started thinking about our discussion of “Woman Hollering Creek” and “The Husband Stitch”: Discuss Mexican telenovelas and the story of La Llorona, places in which Cleófilas in “WHC” attains … Continue reading →

Please feel free to write about anything that interested you in The House on Mango Street.  Here are some prompts to get you started thinking: In the vignette “My Name,” Esperanza talks about her name. What do you think about her … Continue reading →

As you finish reading the collection “The Moths and Other Stories,” please feel free to write about anything you’d like.  Here are some prompts to get you started thinking: Choose one or more of the 3 key background figures in … Continue reading →

Choose one of the first four stories in The Moths to write about.  Discuss anything you’d like concerning this story.  What do you find interesting in it?  Are you confused by anything that happens? What do you think it is … Continue reading →

Here are some prompts you may want to respond to for this week’s blog discussion: The snake is a complicated symbol.  What cultural associations with snakes are you familiar with? How do you think Anzaldúa uses the figure of the … Continue reading →

For every day that we have assigned readings or films in the course, students may post a response on our class blog.  I will provide several prompts for each of these days to get you started thinking.  You may respond … Continue reading →