Name: Date:

HARKNESS 2: ATD

DISCUSS:
- Juniors life at Wellpinit
- Juniors relationship with his family
o What is a supportive family in this novel?
- Juniors relationship with Rowdy
- Juniors life at Rearden
- Coming of age (so far)
- Masculinity aka what it means to be a man (messages of manliness)
- Cultural appropriation in the novel and in life
- The role of books and art in the novel
- Junior and Penelope
- Basketball (what is its role?)
- Grief and death
- Different forms of friendship
- The role of academia and book smarts vs. street smarts




Name: Date:
HARKNESS 2: ATD

DISCUSS:
- Juniors life at Wellpinit
- Juniors relationship with his family
o What is a supportive family in this novel?
- Juniors relationship with Rowdy
- Juniors life at Rearden
- Coming of age (so far)
- Masculinity aka what it means to be a man (messages of manliness)
- Cultural appropriation in the novel and in life
- The role of books and art in the novel
- Junior and Penelope
- Basketball (what is its role?)
- Grief and death
- Different forms of friendship
- The role of academia and book smarts vs. street smarts