Period 3: Fences
READING: Get into groups of 2-3 (choose your partners that you are writing your play scenes with. If you are writing alone, join another student who is also writing alone to form a group of 2-3).
Read out loud: Act 2: Scenes 1-3 (pg. 67-79)--start on page 67 with Gabe's exit.
When you complete your reading out loud, please return to the lab to work on your play projects (and/or homework).
Read out loud: Act 2: Scenes 1-3 (pg. 67-79)--start on page 67 with Gabe's exit.
When you complete your reading out loud, please return to the lab to work on your play projects (and/or homework).
Lab:
Continue your collaborative play drafts. These drafts will be due Tuesday, Oct. 31.
- Make sure you add characterization in your play drafts to develop your character! (see the previous post for details...)
- Your protagonist should have at least 1 monologue!
- Your antagonist should have at least 1 monologue!
HOMEWORK: 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
Bring your Fences scripts back with you to next class so we can finish reading the play together.
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