Connect, Extend, Challenge: February 13, 2018

Focus: What can we learn about family dynamics and motifs from the first scene in Fences?

1. Warming up by investigating a photo: Connect, Extend, Challenge

2. Exploring and questioning the family tree and set-up of Fences

• Back to yesterday's fence and background info...
• Does your partner's fence keep something out, keep something out, or serve a different purpose?
• What metaphorical/symbolic connection can you make between your fence and the topics discussed today? Explain this to your partner while he/she takes notes.

• Sketch the family tree.

• What are you seeing? 
• What does it make you think about individual characters? About this family?
• What wonderings (questions) do you have?

• Read the opening summary with the same inquiry-based focus: See, think, wonder

3. Reading Scene 1 together with a focus on characterization:

• Keep adding to your family/friend tree with facts and inferences about what we're learning about these characters.

• What are you seeing? 
• What are you thinking? 
• What are you wondering about?
• Look for complexities and contradictions.

• Mark any passages you might want for your first Connect, Extend, Challenge blog entry.

4. Complete this exit ticket and start working on your first CEC blog entry

HW:
1. Finish your Act 1, Scene 1 Connect, Extend, Challenge blog entry if you did not finish in class. If you were absent today, please read Act 1, Scene 1 on your own and follow the directions.

2. BRING STICKY NOTES!

3. This Friday, February 16, marks the end of the first 6 weeks. Please submit all make-up work, revised work, and missing work by Tuesday, February 20. Also, if any of your grades are incorrect, please e-mail me by Tuesday. After Tuesday, all grades in IC will stand as they are.