Monday, December 8, 2014

Monday

Sorry for my absence today -- 

Please see the topics below for Friday's lesson -- which YOU will teach! Today, select a topic (one person per numbered topic). Present information about the topic as if you were the perfect teacher providing students with exactly what you would need to know. Note the rubric below: I have emphasized good management of technology and delivery. No lengthy fiddling about with a computer while the class waits, and no talking to yourself. Present!

Rubric
Due on December 11, 12

Strong  2
Adequate 1
Weak 0
Five or more slides



Use of graphics, correctness



Professional handling of technology: no delay



Serious, appropriate demeanor while presenting



Content: Developed, connected, clear



Eye contact, personal communication



Note handouts provided ahead of time
12
6
0
Square root curve:







Close research into the play:
1. male/female relationships (select at least three)
Doaker/Coreen
Wining Boy/Cleotha/Lymon's mother
Berniece /Crawley/Avery/Lymon
Lymon/Grace
Boy Willie
Berniece's mother and father
2. Songs and music -- function in the play
3. Motif: Parts or halves: (belief/Bible/piano)
4. Charles family tree: get fluent and clear about relationships
Sutter family tree
Characters (philosophies, motives, loci of power, primary function in moving the play forward)
5. Doaker
6. Avery
7. Wining Boy
8. Boy Willie
9. Berniece
image/symbol
10. piano
11. Sutter's ghost
12. Ghosts of the Yellow Dog
13. Maretha (small bit character: her impact is largely symbolic, n'est-ce pas?
Theme and comment

14. Final scene

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