Objective: Students will be able to characterize Mama, Ruth, Beneatha, and Walter in order to make inferences and predictions about each character. Students will be able to evaluate instances of irony in order to determine their effectiveness.
Do-Now: FREE WRITE (Write 5-7 sentences about anything you want)
Today: 1) Review Exit Slips from Tuesday
2) Review situational irony and dramatic irony
3) In groups, read from the bottom of pg.66 where Mama comes back into the room until the end of the scene on the bottom of pg. 75. Complete your characterization chart for Walter and Mama.
4) Watch the end of Act 1, Scene 2
5) Free Choice Activities: Choose ONE of the following activities to complete today in
class and ONE activity to complete for homework.
Activity #1 –
Setting Sketch: Look back at the description of the setting on pp. 23-24. Using the details given in this description,
draw the set of the play as accurately as you can. In addition to the things which are mentioned
in the description, you may also add things which you believe the Youngers
would have had in their apartment. This
sketch should be done neatly on a blank sheet of paper and may be in black and
white or color.
Activity #2 – Dear
Diary: Pretend you are one of the play’s female characters (Mama, Beneatha, or
Ruth.) Write a diary entry about the
events which occur in Act 1 from your point of view. In addition to including details from the
play, you may also include the character’s thoughts/feelings (which you can
infer based on her actions and dialogue in the play.) This diary entry should be written in first
person and should be a minimum of TWENTY sentences long.
Activity #3 – Talk
Show: Pretend Ruth decided to bring Walter on a talk show to reveal her
pregnancy and her plans for an abortion.
Write a scene in which the characters from the play appear on a talk
show to discuss the pregnancy. The scene
may include any of the characters from the play in addition to a host for the
show. Your scene should be at least TWO
pages long and should be written in play format. Make sure to have Ruth discuss why she is
choosing to have the abortion and include Walter’s reaction to her choice.
Activity #4 – People
Poems: Choose FOUR of the
characters from the play. For each
character, write a four-lined poem (your poems will total sixteen lines.) These poems should be used to characterize
each character by describing what each character looks like, acts like, says, or
does in the play. The poems should rhyme
and must follow either an AABB or ABAB rhyme scheme.
Grading
Worth = 20 points per activity (40
points total for classwork and homework)
20 points = 5 points for neatness/organization
5 points for
creativity/originality
10 points for fulfilling all
requirements
DUE DATE: Classwork due TODAY, Wednesday, November 27
Homework due MONDAY,
December 2
Exit Slip: How was dramatic irony used in the scene? Do you believe it was used effectively? Why or why not? How was situational irony used in the scene? Do you believe it was used effectively? Why or why not?
Homework: Second Free Choice Activity
