Upcoming Dates
- Catcher in the Rye Quizzes
- Thursday 4/ 23 — chapters 1-7
Thursday 4/29 — chapters 8-16
Thursday 5/7 — chapters 17-end -- try to finish by Wednesday so we can discuss - Optional Study Guide for Catcher in the Rye
- Optional Study Guide for Raisin in the Sun
- Full Text for Raisin in the Sun
Week at a Glance
Monday 5/4- Background on Lorraine Hansberry and Raisin in the Sun
- Langston Hughes' poem "Harlem" (or "Dream Deferred")
- Annotate for how concrete imagery (in the similes) helps us understand the impact of a dream deferred on the dreamer. Note that Hughes presents five different views of this dream (drying up, festering, crusting over, sagging, exploding)
- View Raisin in the Sun
- 1st period --
- Journal (in class): choose one of the similes in Hughes' poem and connect it to your experience of dreams and the obstacles that defer those dreams. In your own life (or in the life of someone important to you), have seen them impacted by a dream deferred
- OPTIONAL journal extension -- due Tuesday 5/13, 1.5 pages typed MLA format: choose three similes from Langston Hughes' poem and connect the similes to three different characters in the play. For each character, you will want to identify his or her dream, what are the reasons the dream is deferred, and what has this deferment done to the dream and to the dreamer that reminds you of the simile in Hughes' poem
- 3rd and 4th period --
- Journal (in class): after reading Hansberry's stage directions and intro to the play, consider how she gives us a picture of the Younger family by her description of their environment. Write a description of a place that is important to who you are, use vivid details to bring the place to life, and through the details convey some important ideas about who you are.
- OPTIONAL journal extension -- due Friday 5/13, 1.5 pages typed MLA format: take the journal home, revise it, making it better. Choose three specific parts of Hansberry's intro (a sentence or two) that you can more explicitly borrow -- the way she writes the sentence, the type of details she includes. Take her writing and make it your own. Then write an additional paragraph of reflection, describing what you like about the passages you selected, what they reveal about the Younger family and why you selected to borrow from Hansberry's craft.
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