Period 3:
After our quiz on the first two scenes in August Wilson's play Fences, please continue to work on the collaborative coming-of-age play script project. See previous post for more details.
While you are waiting for your partner to finish the test, please take notes in your journal and research to 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
At 10:00 we will stop writing and move next door to continue reading Scene 3 of Fences together. Sign up for a part to read during class as bonus participation credit.
HOMEWORK: If we do not complete it in class, please finish Act 1 of the play Fences.
After our quiz on the first two scenes in August Wilson's play Fences, please continue to work on the collaborative coming-of-age play script project. See previous post for more details.
While you are waiting for your partner to finish the test, please take notes in your journal and research to 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
At 10:00 we will stop writing and move next door to continue reading Scene 3 of Fences together. Sign up for a part to read during class as bonus participation credit.
HOMEWORK: If we do not complete it in class, please finish Act 1 of the play Fences.
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