A Raisin in the Sun Song Playlist 5/9/18

In class today we reflected upon the discussion we had yesterday on "This is America" the new song from Childish Gambino, (Donald Glover) and used what we talked about to compare them to the characters from "A Raisin in the Sun." like how in the music video the shootings show that violence and hate towards black people still exists today, and how that compares to the bombings mentioned in the play and Mr. Lindner and his association not wanting the Younger family to move into their new home. The assignment that we started today was a character song playlist. Since we compare the themes and symbolism of "This is America" to the characters in the play, now we have to do that again but with the songs that we choose. So basically the whole assignment is you choosing songs for a playlist, like you would usually make on Spotify or Soundcloud, for any one of the characters from the play you choose, containing songs that best show their, dreams, feelings, challenges, and perspective on life. This whole assignment is another way of helping us identify symbols, and themes and connecting them to other works like we're doing now, or to real life and current events. And not just that we're learning to connect these to people weather it be to fictional characters like in Raisin in the Sun or to real people and to their works and their perspective. Relating topics and themes is the point of this, relating a songs message, themes and stance to a character's opinion or a character in general provides a better understanding of what they're trying to say. Anyway you have to lookup six songs in total and explain and connect them to your character in four sentences or more and it's due Friday. This should be a fun a assignment since I'm pretty sure everyone's got a favorite artist or song they want to share.