Lab: (until 10:00)
Collaborative Play Project Script draft due. Your play scripts are due by 10:00. Please make sure you proofread and check your grammar--put periods/end punctuation on the ends of sentences, capitalize proper nouns and the beginnings of words in sentences, spellcheck, etc. Help each other do this.
Remember, as well, that each of your characters (protagonist and antagonist) should have a monologue to help provide characterization.
If you finish early, try the following poetry exercise (our next unit is poetry...)
At 10:00, we will go next door to complete Fences. Sign up for a role to read, please.
HOMEWORK: If we do not finish the play in class, please read the end of the play as homework. Otherwise, none.
FYI: Your journal will be due next week!
Collaborative Play Project Script draft due. Your play scripts are due by 10:00. Please make sure you proofread and check your grammar--put periods/end punctuation on the ends of sentences, capitalize proper nouns and the beginnings of words in sentences, spellcheck, etc. Help each other do this.
Remember, as well, that each of your characters (protagonist and antagonist) should have a monologue to help provide characterization.
If you finish early, try the following poetry exercise (our next unit is poetry...)
- Option #1: Choose a character from Fences (Rose, Troy, Gabe, Lyons, Cory, Bono, Raynelle, etc.); write a poem from that character's perspective.
- Try a poem starter: "When I..." followed by what that character did and how that affected his/her family. "When I married you, Troy, I swore I'd be true..." or "When I played ball with those white boys, I aimed every ounce of my being toward the fence..." or "When I built that fence..." or "When I blow my horn God will open the clouds of heaven above..." etc.
- Option #2: Fences keep things safe from the outside world or protect a family, but also trap a person from obtaining or getting what they want. Pick an inanimate object like a fence or wall or barrier of some sort that represents a human shortcoming or human flaw or restriction or boundary keeping the speaker from what he/she wishes to get or achieve. A problem with grades or money, for example, can be a barrier. It might also be a broken window or a stalled car or some other object. Use the object to explain how the speaker of the poem interprets their situation--what's keeping them back? Write about this conflict. See the following poems as examples:
- Mending Wall by Robert Frost
- Fences by Pat Mora
- Border by Gillian Clarke
- The Boundary by Bei Dao
- Other fence poems
At 10:00, we will go next door to complete Fences. Sign up for a role to read, please.
HOMEWORK: If we do not finish the play in class, please read the end of the play as homework. Otherwise, none.
FYI: Your journal will be due next week!
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