1. Blood Red Road
Sisterhood

2. 186-26:What’s going on in these pages?
What is Saba’s and the Free Hawks’ plan to break the cage fighters free?
What do they plan to do to Hopetown?
What changes the plan?
How does Saba manage to escape? Who tells her how to? Does she mean to follow through on the whole plan?
Who changes her mind?
Whom does she rescue? Why, do you think?
Whom does she help kill?
Where do they go?
Who meets up with her in Darktrees?
When she leaves, who goes with her? Where are they going?

3. Elements of Sisterhood as we defined it on the second day
Natural to stick together Hood shows the solidarity Sororities Can exclude based on age Protection against patriarchy ethnicity, class Strength awareness of double standards Witches/covens Bond more easily breakable Individualistic (differ) Having each others’ backs Feminists More expressive Created through socialization the creation depends of the precepts (conditions?)

4. Sisterhood in Blood Red Road
name all the sisterhoods in Blood Red Road. I count at least 4.

5. Group discussion
For each of the sisterhoods on the board, describe how the members of it function and they incorporate our points/characteristics in our original discussion. Try to find textual support and mark pages for quotes/examples.

6. Now that we have all the notes on the board, let’s move on to tyson’s relevant question #4
Each of you take out a sheet of paper and answer the following question: What does the work (Blood Red Road) imply about the possibilities of sisterhood as a mode of resisting patriarchy and/or about the ways in which women’s situations in the world-- economic, social or psychological—might be improved? Quote or use examples from the book.

7. Homework:
April 28 Read: Dustlands: Blood Red Road