Thursday

Students took a quiz on The Piano Lesson and finished creative presentations. Now they are to look at the following topics and prepare to teach a lesson on the ideas and their ramifications. Consider a partner or go it alone. Here are the areas to focus your rereading:

Close research into the play:

male/female relationships

Doaker/Coreen

Wining Boy/Cleotha/Lymon's mother 

Berniece /Crawley/Avery/Lymon

Lymon/Grace

Boy Willie

Berniece's mother and father

Songs

Halves (belief/Bible/piano)

Charles family tree

Sutter family tree

Characters, philosophies, motives, loci of power

Doaker

Avery

Wining Boy

Boy Willie

Berniece