AGENDA:
1. Common Thread
2. Read ending of Act 2
HW: Read Act 3 for Spring Break and be ready to discuss, debate and write about it
HAPPY SPRING BREAK!
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Monday, March 30, 2015
March 31
AGENDA:
1. Turn in your short answer
2. Common Thread
3. Review ending of Act 1
4. Read Act 2
HW: Read Act 3 for Spring Break
1. Turn in your short answer
2. Common Thread
3. Review ending of Act 1
4. Read Act 2
HW: Read Act 3 for Spring Break
March 30
AGENDA:
1. Memorization
2. Act 1 completed - short answer
Examine the staging directions at the beginning of Act 1. What significance do you think these stage directions have on the play's conflict and/or themes? Why do you think Ibsen set A Doll's House at Christmastime?
3. Common Thread Project
HW: Common Thread; Update your character analysis on Nora and Torvald; complete the above response - 3/4-1 page of in depth analysis - spend some time considering the questions before answering
1. Memorization
2. Act 1 completed - short answer
Examine the staging directions at the beginning of Act 1. What significance do you think these stage directions have on the play's conflict and/or themes? Why do you think Ibsen set A Doll's House at Christmastime?
3. Common Thread Project
HW: Common Thread; Update your character analysis on Nora and Torvald; complete the above response - 3/4-1 page of in depth analysis - spend some time considering the questions before answering
Thursday, March 26, 2015
March 27
AGENDA:
1. Memorizations
2. Common Thread - Mini Project
HW: Complete Act 1 for Monday's class - "A Doll's House"; Common Thread
1. Memorizations
2. Common Thread - Mini Project
To show the thread of our common humanity.
Your instructions are simple:
You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a creative group project. Your secret can be a regret, fear, betrayal, desire, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything - as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before. Be brief. Be legible. Be creative.
There will be a box in the back of the room - please place your sealed, unmarked envelope in there completely anonymously beginning Monday, March 30 and no later than April 1. I will mark your name off the list as you turn them in. Examples....
Your instructions are simple:
You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a creative group project. Your secret can be a regret, fear, betrayal, desire, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything - as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before. Be brief. Be legible. Be creative.
There will be a box in the back of the room - please place your sealed, unmarked envelope in there completely anonymously beginning Monday, March 30 and no later than April 1. I will mark your name off the list as you turn them in. Examples....
HW: Complete Act 1 for Monday's class - "A Doll's House"; Common Thread
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
March 25
AGENDA:
1. Prepare for tomorrow's Career Fair
2. Motifs - reading
3. "When liberal-minded men want to bring about some improvement in the position of women in society, they first inquire whether public opinion—men—will approve. It is the same as asking wolves whether they favor new measures for the protection of
sheep. . . .Women artists and business women try to conceal their sex. On their pictures, their nameplates, etc., they put only the initial of their first name so that people will think they are men."
Henrik Ibsen, Notes and Jottings (winter 1882–83), quoted in Henrik Ibsen: A Critical Anthology, edited by James McFarlane
HW: Prepare for memorization on Friday
1. Prepare for tomorrow's Career Fair
2. Motifs - reading
3. "When liberal-minded men want to bring about some improvement in the position of women in society, they first inquire whether public opinion—men—will approve. It is the same as asking wolves whether they favor new measures for the protection of
sheep. . . .Women artists and business women try to conceal their sex. On their pictures, their nameplates, etc., they put only the initial of their first name so that people will think they are men."
Henrik Ibsen, Notes and Jottings (winter 1882–83), quoted in Henrik Ibsen: A Critical Anthology, edited by James McFarlane
HW: Prepare for memorization on Friday
Monday, March 23, 2015
March 24
AGENDA:
1. Characteristics of Realism and how it fits into literature
2. More reading of the play
3. "A Well Made Play"
4. Proscenium Theater - framed arch - transparently apparent
HW: Memorizations start on Friday
1. Characteristics of Realism and how it fits into literature
2. More reading of the play
3. "A Well Made Play"
4. Proscenium Theater - framed arch - transparently apparent
HW: Memorizations start on Friday
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