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UNIT 4: DIRECTOR'S CUT

English 190V
California State University, Sacramento


 

Unit 1: Domestic Realism

Unit 2: Tragedy

Unit 3: Comedy

Unit 4: Director's Cut

 

 

 

 

Unit 4: Director's Choice

Goals and Objectives
  • Review the elements of Domestic Realism.
  • Know how the illusion of Domestic Realism can be stretched to include other dramatic techniques like a Narrator and a shifting Point-of-View.
  • Know the content and structure of Master Harold and the Boys and The Glass Menagerie.
  • Write several focused responses, ask questions, search the Web.
  • Write paper #4.

Videos 

Master Harold

 

Glass Menagerie

Responses due May 1 - 4 by Group.

Responses due May 8 - 12 by Group.

Web Search: There's a wealth of info about these great plays and their authors. As you respond to each play, search the web for biographical data, themes, production history or how the play has been transformed into opera, symphony, previous movie adaptations, etc. etc. etc.

 

My favorite search engines are: northernlight.com

google.com

Do not just download a page from a site.

Summarize what you learned about one of the plays in the unit in your own words and post a 1 page report in Discussions -- Topic: "Web Search - Gr. 1,2,3," etc.

DUE: May 14

Include the Web Address (URL).

Group Activities: You were assigned to one of 5 groups on the first class meeting. Your group determines when your response and questions are due for each play. For example, for Harold, a response to the play (with one question) from Group 4 is due Wed. May 1, Group 5, Thurs. May 5, Group 1 Fri. May 3 , etc. Always check the CALENDAR to see when your response is due for any given week.

For each play:

1) Read Preview

2) See Video.

3) On the Bulletin Board post a Response to one of the Questions on the NOTES for each play. Post in the proper FORUM. (The two Forums for this unit are Raisin and Woolf?) First come first serve. Once a question has been selected by a classmate, you must choose another question.

4) Attach at least one of your own questions at the end of your response -- one that occurred to you as you watched the video. Include this question in your Response on the Bulletin Board. Respond to your classsmates' responses and questions. Read every response. Participation is 25% of your grade.

5) Post your Response by due date for your group.

6) Search the Web for each play. Submit a report.

PREVIEW:
Master Harold

 

PREVIEW:
Menagerie

 

 

NOTES
Master Harold 

 

 

NOTES
Menagerie

 

 

 

 

Paper #4

 

 

 

You've all participated in the on line discussion for the first two plays. Some of the responses from your classmates on the NOTES for each play must have intrigued you. Select one of the topics from the Notes for either play and write a 2 - 3 page paper on that topic. You may choose for your paper the same topic you wrote your response on. You may also incorporate into your paper your classmates' ideas as well as information from a web search -- yours or your classmates' -- but footnote your classmates' ideas and research to give credit where credit's due. Footnote all information obtained from the Web

CRITERIA FOR PAPER EVALUATION.

Paper #4 due Thurs., May 16 for all Groups.

Grades for papers will be posted in WebCt. From the home page click the GRADEBOOK icon.


 

 

Assessment
 

See Assessment in Unit 1.

 

 

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