The Kentucky Cycle | Topics for Further Study
Research the European settlement of Kentucky during the late eighteenth century. Compare the historical accounts to the events in the first two plays in The Kentucky Cycle.
How does strip-mining work? Why would stripmining and the condition of mine workers in the 1920s cause them to want to unionize?
How do the Rowens, specifically Michael, Patrick, Jed, and Mary Anne, display the ideas of the American Dream?
After researching the environmental damage done by strip-mining, explain why Joshua feels the joy he does when he sees the wolf at the end of The...
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