Why We Still Read Fences: March 1, 2018

Focus: What larger themes can develop from Fences, and why should we care about them?

1. Warming up with Grammar You Must Know #7: Sentence Fragments

2. Discussing the final shot of the film: What does it make you think about?

3. Analyzing Fences in grid groups:

• Using your exit ticket questions as prompts

• Reading "Here's Why the Racially Charged Fences Is Still Relevant Today" and discussing it with the 4As

4.  Debriefing as a group:

One word:

• On a surface level, this play is about...
• On a deeper level, this play is about...

Full thoughts:

• Take one of the words on the board, and expand it into a full theme. In other words, what does August Wilson want us to understand better or differently about ______?

HW:
1. We will be drafting your empathy monologues tomorrow; bring Fences, your laptop, and make sure you have finished the exercises we started in class.

2. Please make sure your Reader's Journal blogs are complete (they were due yesterday).