Tuesday, March 31, 2015

April 1

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!

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

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

Thursday, March 26, 2015

March 27

AGENDA:

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....


HW: Complete Act 1 for Monday's class - "A Doll's House"; Common Thread

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

March 26

AGENDA:

1. Career Fair - see you in the gym

HW: Memorization begins tomorrow

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

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