Warm-up Activity: In your journal, make a list of 10 common problems that people or families often face. You can draw from your own experience, from books, or films that you have seen for ideas. You may also use your imagination (which is what it's for...) Come up with 10 common problems and list these problems in your journal.
Then:
Please check out the link on August Wilson. In your journal take a few notes about how he got started writing plays and what he was attempting to do. What are his plays generally about?
Information about August Wilson can be found here. Please check out this interview as well. August Wilson interview
We will be picking up the play Fences by August Wilson and beginning it today. When we return from the library, please get into the same groups you had last class reading The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. Please select parts and begin reading today.
Additionally: please stop after reading scene one and in partners, choose one of the characters: 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.
HOMEWORK: Please read scene two.
Then:
Please check out the link on August Wilson. In your journal take a few notes about how he got started writing plays and what he was attempting to do. What are his plays generally about?
Information about August Wilson can be found here. Please check out this interview as well. August Wilson interview
We will be picking up the play Fences by August Wilson and beginning it today. When we return from the library, please get into the same groups you had last class reading The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. Please select parts and begin reading today.
Additionally: please stop after reading scene one and in partners, choose one of the characters: 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.
HOMEWORK: Please read scene two.
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