Fences - Homework Reminder

Read Play and Complete questions handout by 4/13 (A), 4/14 (B).

Links to the videos in class:

American Masters August Wilson http://to.pbs.org/1w43AXB

watch first 4 minutes, then watch from 00.30 - 00.37

Watch:  Fences - Excerpts http://bit.ly/1I0o3Dj

Watch: August Wilson on the Blues: 1st 5 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgjnNaMweBw

 Listen:
Bessie Smith Nobody can bake a sweet jelly roll . . .
Jesus, be a fence . . .

Tutoring Schedule

Here is the updated tutoring schedule. In Addition, Mr. Templet (305) offers tutoring Tues: 8:25 and W/Th 4:20

Mr. Jensen's Tutoring is by appt.. If you are retaking the AP Lang Exam the AP Eng 3 Faculty are available as well.

Due Friday 4/10 (B) Monday 4/13 (A)

Read Act 2 -
Prepare discussion notes for 3 motif: Death, Blues, Baseball and how each motif drives the themes of the play.
Possible themes: The creation of Order, Freedom vs. Protection, Personal Apocalypse, the American Dream, and The African American Difference.

Be prepared to evaluate the wants and gets of each character and the cost of sacrifice in the play as a whole.

What do you think Wilson is trying to communicate to us about the 20th century African American experience? How is it unique? How is it similar to the experience of the Loman's?

Fences by August Wilson

Please read Act One of Fences (pp1594-1628) or at this link http://web.mit.edu/wpick/output.pdf  on 04/06/15 and answer the following questions:
1. Describe the condition of the marriage of Rose and Troy at the beginning of the play. What are their habits? How well meshed are they? What about their marriage has made Troy discontented?
2.What are Troy's relationships to the other characters - Bono, Lyons, Gabriel? Show how these are compounded of both conflict and congruence of feelings.
3. Define the conflicts between Cory and Troy, showing how they develop. In what ways do they resemble those between Troy and his Father? What does Troy want to protect Cory from, and what direction does he want him to take? What unspoken dangers does Cory face as a Marine in 1965?

Due beginning of Class 04/08/15