Hierarchy of Needs and the End of Fences: February 27, 2018

Focus: How can psychology and performance helps us understand characters' needs?

1. Warming up by applying Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to Troy and Rose (on your blog journal)

• Where does Rose lie on this hierarchy of needs? What about Troy?  Find one line for EACH character that supports your thinking?

• Which need of Rose's does Troy fail to acknowledge? Which need of Cory's does Troy fail to acknowledge? Find one line that supports your thinking.

2.  Offering your the rubric for your Reader's Theater blog journal entries

3. Enjoying Reader's Theater: Act 2, Scene 5; discussing your final Level 2 and 3 question

4. Viewing the film version of Fences and analyzing this director's symbolic choices; use this exit ticket to identify one symbolic choice and pose a question about it. What are you curious about?

Ex: I noticed that the film opens with the sounds of a garbage truck, and the first visual is Troy and Bono riding on the back of one. What does the garbage truck symbolize about Troy's esteem and self-actualizing needs?

HW:
All journal entries for Reader's theater must be completed by tomorrow. If you missed a performance, read the scene on your own and look at a classmate's blog to see what the acting company's question was.

***All blog entries for both acts must be finished by this Wednesday, Feb 28.***