What is the relationship between an individual and the state? Can an individual actually make a difference? What can a community do to make a difference?

What is the difference between individual bias and structural inequality?
How do power and privilege shape the relationships people have with each other as well as with institutions?

Thinking about what we learned about Reconstruction and its manifest failures, what do we better understand about how bias and injustice have affected our country's history since 1877 ?

How do our various group identities shape us as individuals?
How do our intersecting identities shape our perspectives and the way we experience the world?

What problems arise when we relate to people as members of a group, rather than as unique individuals?

How can playing a piece of music differ from one person to the next?

What do we gain when we learn about the lived experiences of other people?

How can we better understand difference?
How do our similarities and differences impact the relationships we have with people inside and outside our own identity groups?
What do we gain when we learn about the lived experiences of other people?

How can storytellers influence the narrative being told?
How do we ensure that what we're learning is authentic?

What are your main group identities?
How do our intersecting identities shape our perspectives and the way we interpret poetry?
What do we gain when we learn about the lived experiences of other people?
How can we apply our unique perspective to the performance of a song with a poetic text?