BLUESONG GUIDE DESCRIPTION “Papa was a Rolling Stone” is an epic social commentary about families that struggle to stay afloat when one parent is absent from the picture. This study guide is designed to link up with thematically related texts like Angela’s Ashes, and The Color of Water and Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman. Mindblue’s differentiated lesson plan is filled with multi-disciplinary activities linking the song to the photography of Gordon Parks, the sociology of the modern family, and movies like the Hugh Grant comedy, About a Boy. THEMES/SUBJECTS Father Son Relationships Death of Father Hypocrisy Delinquent Parents Dysfunctional Family LIT TERMS Point of view Irony Narrative LITERATURE LINKS Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt Black Boy – Richard Wright Native Son – Richard Wright All My Sons – Arthur Miller Father Figure – Richard Peck The Bean Trees – Barbara Kingsolver Adaline Falling Star – Mary Pope Osbourne The Color of Water – James McBride The Sign of the Chrysanthemum – Katherine Patterson Long Day’s Journey into Night – Eugene O’Neill A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams NOTE: Our Study Guides are available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF download. After your purchase you will be directed to the page which contains your downloadable PDF file(s). 
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