Syllabus: Week 10, October 21
OUR NEXT TEXT IS AUGUST WILSON’S PLAY, FENCES, the story of a black American man who works as a refuse collector in Pittsburgh in 1950s America. Troy Maxon “has gone through life in a country where to be proud and black was to face pressures that could crus a man, body and soul…[His desire for opportunities for work] is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less.” The winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this is one of a series of plays that explores the life of black Americans in one place through the 19th and 20th century. You need to purchase the book, by this Friday at New Trier’s bookstore. It costs $16.35.
TUESDAY
20-minutes of independent reading.
Checking grades. If you need to re-submit your freedom paragraph OR photo, please do so. Also, anything marked a zero or an “F” is missing. Please make up any of these assignments.
Completing three words from chapter ten of Frederick Douglass’s narrative.
After reviewing the plot summary worksheet, working on the study guide questions for chapter 10.
HW: Finish the study guide questions for chapter 10.
WEDNESDAY
Collecting your chapter 10 plot line, and study guide questions.
10 minutes of independent reading.
Listening to the first 20 minutes of the above podcast.
Starting a brainstorming worksheet for a paper on FD’s “Narrative.”
HW: Spend half-an-hour brainstorming ideas for your paper on NOAL.