RESEARCH: Start class off today by researching the following items. In your journal, write down your answers. You should be able to relate the research to Fences.
Please research and find information about:
In 1918 when Troy Maxson is your age (about 14), he leaves the South for Pittsburgh. His father was a sharecropper. What is a sharecropper? What was life like for a sharecropper in the South? How did the system of sharecropping entrap people? How could a person escape that life? Read about it here.
The setting of this play is 1957. Please research and find information about this time period. Some questions to help guide your research are:
Images of the civil rights movement
Images of “the children’s crusade" of the civil rights movement
Timeline of the civil rights movement
After 15-20 minutes of research online and taking notes in your journal, please pair up with the partner you chose last class. (Get into pairs from your reading group).
In the next 20 minutes, please complete the following task:
1. Choose one of the characters in scene one or two: Troy, Bono, Rose, or Lyons and draw a character sketch of that character. Indicate lines and words from scene one that help describe and characterize the character you chose.
When an author develops a character, he/she relies on characterization. Characterization is based on four distinct things:
During period 4, please continue reading Fences in your reading groups. Before you read, discuss with your group what you learned about the SETTING of this play, and some of the important events that might shape the characters in this play. Which characters seem most affected?
Please complete the play for Monday. There will be a quiz on the play during the 2nd half of the class on Monday.
HOMEWORK: Please complete your reading of Fences. There will be a quiz Monday on the play. You should know the basic plot, characters, characterization, key symbols, and structure of the play.
Please research and find information about:
In 1918 when Troy Maxson is your age (about 14), he leaves the South for Pittsburgh. His father was a sharecropper. What is a sharecropper? What was life like for a sharecropper in the South? How did the system of sharecropping entrap people? How could a person escape that life? Read about it here.
The setting of this play is 1957. Please research and find information about this time period. Some questions to help guide your research are:
- What were the social, economic, political and educational expectations and opportunities for African Americans at this time?
- What advances had been made in civil rights?
- What significant changes will occur in America during the years between 1957 and 1965?
Images of the civil rights movement
Images of “the children’s crusade" of the civil rights movement
Timeline of the civil rights movement
After 15-20 minutes of research online and taking notes in your journal, please pair up with the partner you chose last class. (Get into pairs from your reading group).
In the next 20 minutes, please complete the following task:
1. Choose one of the characters in scene one or two: Troy, Bono, Rose, or Lyons and draw a character sketch of that character. Indicate lines and words from scene one that help describe and characterize the character you chose.
When an author develops a character, he/she relies on characterization. Characterization is based on four distinct things:
- What a character says or thinks about him/herself
- What another character says or thinks about the character
- What the character does (the actions the character does and the choices he/she makes)
- The details or physical description the author or narrator gives us. In this case, what is revealed in the STAGE DIRECTIONS of the play script.
During period 4, please continue reading Fences in your reading groups. Before you read, discuss with your group what you learned about the SETTING of this play, and some of the important events that might shape the characters in this play. Which characters seem most affected?
Please complete the play for Monday. There will be a quiz on the play during the 2nd half of the class on Monday.
HOMEWORK: Please complete your reading of Fences. There will be a quiz Monday on the play. You should know the basic plot, characters, characterization, key symbols, and structure of the play.
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