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1 Instructor and Students, Agenda for Monday, March 26 th. Activity #1 Grammar Practice (20 minutes) This activity can be done individually or in groups of three to four students. 1. Complete the section that asks you to identify active/passive voice. After each sentence write an A or a P to indicate whether the sentence demonstrates active or passive voice. 2. Comma review be able to explain why the commas in the selected sentences are used incorrectly. 3. Review parts of speech a. Why am I including this information? i. Review (you should already know this stuff) ii. Preparation for the EOC and ACT b. After reviewing the various parts of speech, create sentences that use the parts of speech in the designated order (this will make sense when you see the worksheet). i. If you see something like pro / hv / mv / art / n / prep / pro, then you must craft a sentence that uses a pronoun, helping verb, main verb, article, noun, preposition, and pronoun in that order. Activity #2 Poetry (10-15 minutes) 1. Read the selected poem and answer the questions that follow. 2. Why are we doing this? a. Preparation for the poetry unit. b. This is a fairly difficult poem that will elicit multiple interpretations and meanings. You need to be able to think critically about poetry and support your ideas with textual evidence. c. The poem may have some thematic connection to our next unit of study (Death of a Salesman). Activity #3 Start Reading Arthur Miller s Death of a Salesman 1. Books should be available in the classroom. DO NOT TAKE THESE BOOKS HOME. 2. If the books are not in the classroom, please send a student to the English office to collect about twenty-five copies of the play. 3. Assign parts (suggestions are listed in the following pages) 4. Students should read and perform the scenes (much like we did with Darker Face of the Earth) 5. Read pages After the reading is complete, fill out the sheet of notes found in this packet. You may work in groups. Activity #4 Film (time permitting) 1. After you have finished taking notes, you may watch the Dustin Hoffman version of this play. Please make notes on the tone and mood of the play, the physical appearance of the performers, the set, and your general observations about this interpretation of the play. Homework Read Arthur Miller s Tragedy and the Common Man 1. Please answer the assigned questions on a separate sheet of paper. 2. Be ready to take a quiz over the essay (hint the quiz questions will be very similar to the assigned questions in this packet). 3. Bring materials to class to work on your Macbeth projects and essays. I would like to give you class time to work on these project, but you need to be sure that you use this time effectively.
2 Lesson Plan Activity #1 Grammar Practice Section #1 Active vs. Passive Voice (Write A for Active and P for Passive) 1. Several robberies were committed during the night. 2. The teacher returned the essays to the irate students. 3. When she arrived, the changes amazed her. 4. Simon was awarded the prize for cutest baby. 5. The principals decided to prohibit cell phone use at school. Section #2 The following sentences contains at least one comma errors. Please explain why the commas are used incorrectly. What should be done to fix these sentences? 1. The student turned in her essay on time, she felt her work was satisfactory. 2. Although, his knee hurt, Mr. Bannecker was able to make it up the treacherous stairwell. 3. Lady Gaga s song, Pokerface, makes Mr. Bannecker want to run out of the room. 4. Her deep, blue eyes were her best feature. 5. My friends are planning a trip not only to Europe, but also to the Middle East.
3 Section #3 Identifying Parts of Speech Parts of Speech Review 1. Nouns a. Common Noun names any person, place, or thing. Examples are basketball, video, wizard, coin, woman, and coach. b. Proper Noun names a particular person, place, or thing and begins with a capital letter. Examples are Winston Churchill, Babe Ruth, Mr. Richard Turner, and Chicago. c. Collective Noun names a group of people or things. Examples of collective nouns are jury, herd, flock, family, fleet, club, class, and group. d. Compound Noun is a noun consisting of more than a single word. It could be separate words such as social studies, physical education, and dining room. It could be two words joined by a hyphen such as merry-go-round, thirty-three, sister-in-law, and great- grandmother. It could be a combined word such as schoolteacher, bookkeeper, landlord, and headmaster. 2. Pronouns a. Personal Pronouns refer to people and things (I, me, mine, you, your, he, she, they, them, it, its, etc.) b. Reflex Pronouns formed by adding self or selves to certain personal pronouns (myself, themselves, etc.) c. Interrogative Pronouns used to ask a question (which, who, whom, whose) d. Demonstrative Pronouns used to point out a specific person or thing (this, that, these, and those). e. Indefinite Pronouns often do not refer to a specific or definite person or thing. 3. Adjectives a. Proper Adjectives formed from a proper noun (Midas touch, Italian bread) b. Compound Adjectives word composed of two or more words (hometown hero, landmark decision) c. Pronouns vs. Adjectives i. This problem is difficult. ( This is an adjective since it answers the question, Which problem?) ii. This is difficult. ( This is a pronoun since it takes the place of a noun and does not modify a noun or a pronoun.) 4. Verbs a. Action Verbs b. Linking Verbs - connects (or links) a subject to a noun or an adjective in the predicate. The most common linking verbs are the forms of the verb to be ( is, are, was, were, been, being, am ) and appear, become, feel, grow, look, remain, seem, smell, sound, stay, taste, and turn. c. Helping Verbs - assists the main verb in a sentence. There can be more than one helping verb in each sentence. In a questioning (interrogative) sentence, the helping verb is usually separated from the main verb. The common helping verbs are am, is, are, was, were, be, been, being, has, had, have, do, does, did, may, might, must, can, could, shall, should, will, and would. 5. Adverbs (Usually end in ly) a. Other common adverbs again almost alone already also always away even ever here just later never not now nowhere often perhaps quite rather seldom so sometimes somewhat somewhere soon then there today too very yesterday yet b. Modify verbs (John ate quickly.) c. Modify adjectives (Chaney is very happy.) d. Modify other adverbs (Duncan works too quickly.)
4 6. Prepositions a. Common Prepositions aboard about above across after against along among around as at before behind below beneath beside besides between beyond but by concerning despite down during except for from in inside into like near of off on onto opposite out outside over past since through throughout till to toward under underneath until up upon with within without b. Compound Prepositions according to ahead of apart from as of aside from because of by means of in addition to in back of in front of in place of in spite of instead of in view of next to on account of out of prior to Putting this knowledge into practice Create sentences based on the parts of speech in the specified order. Here is the abbreviation code: n _ noun; pro _ pronoun; adj _ adjective; v _ verb; advb _adverb; c _ conjunction; prep _ preposition; hv _ helping verb; mv _ main verb; pro-adj _ pronoun-adjective (such as these ); art _ article ( a, an, or the ). 1. Pro / hv / mv / art / n / prep / pro. 2. Pro / prep / pro-adj / n / v / adj. 3. MV / pro-adj / n / advb. 4. N / conj / N / hv / mv / prep / N.
5 Activity #2 - Poetry Fragments 1953 By Gottfried Benn Gottfried Benn Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann A day without tears is a rare occurrence culpable absent-mindedness practically an episode when men still wore starched collars, and stuffed cotton wool between their toes hobbled about in pain, pedicure hadn t been invented, but you would see faces that were worth a second look those were years when something whispered 1. After reading the poem, what do you think the central theme or message of the poem is? How does the author s use of images (selection of images, organization of images, etc.) support this theme/idea? 2. Although the poem is short, the author is obviously particular about the structure of the poem. Why do you think the author structured the poem in the manner? How does this arrangement augment/enhance the major idea(s) in the poem? 3. What do you think the final line of the poem means? Please explain the poet s use of diction and how this diction enhances the meaning of the work.
6 Activity #3 Directions: You should find a copy of Arthur Miller s Death of a Salesman in the classroom. Do not take these copies home with you. These books are available in the book store. Assign parts (narrators can alternate sections) Parts - Biff Cassidy or Kate Narrator Sarena and Chelsea Happy Ashley or Ben Willy Adam or Matt Linda Violet or Raechel Read Pages Scene Page Questions Notes Flute 11 What associates does Miller make with the flute music? House 11 What is significant about the house in relation to the surrounding buildings? What is significant about the playwright s mention of dreams? Objects in house 11 What objects does Miller include in his description of the Loman household? What possible significance do these items hold? Stage design 12 What is significant about Miller s expressionistic stage design? Why do you think he creates the set in this manner? Willy intro 12 What is significant about Willy s introduction? What aspect of Willy does Miller direct our attention to? Linda intro 12 Linda s introduction has less to do with her and more to do with her husband. How is this introduction consistent with her character? Flute ends 13 How does the tone of the play change once the flute music ends? Page Questions 13 How does Linda prevent Willy from accepting reality and/or achieving self-recognition? Notes 14 What does Willy base his identity on?
7 What are the strange thoughts that Willy is having? 15 How does Willy define success? Is Willy s definition of success similar to the American Dream? 16 How does Willy prove to be an unreliable character? According to Willy, what is the key to success? 17 How does nature function as a symbol in this scene? How is Willy s attitude about business an ironic attitude for a salesman to have? 18 What happens to Willy as the sounds of the flute begin to be heard? 19 What is significant about the comparison between the two Loman brothers? 21 How do the boys reveal their conflicted feelings about Willy? 22 Please describe Biff s internal conflict. What is the source of this conflict? 23 How does Biff define manhood? What is significant about Happy s comment on wealth/materialism? 24 How does Happy define success? How does Happy define masculinity? 25 How does Happy measure his sense of self-worth?
8 "Tragedy and the Common Man" An Essay by Arthur Miller 1949 In this age few tragedies are written. It has often been held that the lack is due to a paucity of heroes among us, or else that modern man has had the blood drawn out of his organs of belief by the skepticism of science, and the heroic attack on life cannot feed on an attitude of reserve and circumspection. For one reason or another, we are often held to be below tragedy--or tragedy above us. The inevitable conclusion is, of course, that the tragic mode is archaic, fit only for the very highly placed, the kings or the kingly, and where this admission is not made in so many words it is most often implied. I believe that the common man is as apt a subject for tragedy in its highest sense as kings were. On the face of it this ought to be obvious in the light of modern psychiatry, which bases its analysis upon classific formulations, such as the Oedipus and Orestes complexes, for instance, which were enacted by royal beings, but which apply to everyone in similar emotional situations. More simply, when the question of tragedy in art is not at issue, we never hesitate to attribute to the well-placed and the exalted the very same mental processes as the lowly. And finally, if the exaltation of tragic action were truly a property of the highbred character alone, it is inconceivable that the mass of mankind should cherish tragedy above all other forms, let alone be capable of understanding it. As a general rule, to which there may be exceptions unknown to me, I think the tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing--his sense of personal dignity. From Orestes to Hamlet, Medea to Macbeth, the underlying struggle is that of the individual attempting to gain his "rightful" position in his society. Sometimes he is one who has been displaced from it, sometimes one who seeks to attain it for the first time, but the fateful wound from which the inevitable events spiral is the wound of indignity, and its dominant force is indignation. Tragedy, then, is the consequence of a man's total compulsion to evaluate himself justly. In the sense of having been initiated by the hero himself, the tale always reveals what has been called his "tragic flaw," a failing that is not peculiar to grand or elevated characters. Nor is it necessarily a weakness. The flaw, or crack in the character, is really nothing--and need be nothing--but his inherent unwillingness to remain passive in the face of what he conceives to be a challenge to his dignity, his image of his rightful status. Only the passive, only those who accept their lot without active retaliation, are "flawless." Most of us are in that category. But there are among us today, as there always have been, those who act against the scheme of things that degrades them, and in the process of action, everything we have accepted out of fear or insensitivity or ignorance is shaken before us and examined, and from this total onslaught by an individual against the seemingly stable cosmos surrounding us-from this total examination of the "unchangeable" environment-- comes the terror and the fear that is classically associated with tragedy. More important, from this total questioning of what has been previously unquestioned, we learn. And such a process is not beyond the common man. In revolutions around the world, these past thirty years, he has demonstrated again and again this inner dynamic of all tragedy. Insistence upon the rank of the tragic hero, or the so-called nobility of his character, is really but a clinging to the outward forms of tragedy. If rank or nobility of character was indispensable, then it would follow that the problems of those with rank were the particular problems of tragedy. But surely the right of one monarch to capture the domain from another no longer raises our passions, nor are our concepts of justice what they were to the mind of an Elizabethan king. The quality in such plays that does shake us, however, derives from the underlying fear of being displaced, the disaster inherent in being torn away from our chosen image of what and who we are in this world. Among us today this fear is as strong, and perhaps stronger, than it ever was. In fact, it is the common man who knows this fear best. Now, if it is true that tragedy is the consequence of a man's total compulsion to evaluate himself justly, his destruction in the attempt posits a wrong or an evil in his environment. And this is precisely the
9 morality of tragedy and its lesson. The discovery of the moral law, which is what the enlightenment of tragedy consists of, is not the discovery of some abstract or metaphysical quantity. The tragic right is a condition of life, a condition in which the human personality is able to flower and realize itself. The wrong is the condition which suppresses man, perverts the flowing out of his love and, creative instinct. Tragedy enlightens--and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy, of man's freedom. The thrust for freedom is the quality in tragedy which exalts. The revolutionary questioning of the stable environment is what terrifies. In no way is the common man debarred from such thoughts or such actions. Seen in this light, our lack of tragedy may be partially accounted for by the turn which modem literature has taken toward the purely psychiatric view of life, or the purely sociological. If all our miseries, our indignities, are born and bred within our minds, then all action, let alone the heroic action, is obviously impossible. And if society alone is responsible for the cramping of our lives, then the protagonist must needs be so pure and faultless as to force us to deny his validity as a character. From neither of these views can tragedy derive, simply because neither represents a balanced concept of life. Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect. No tragedy can therefore come about when its author fears to question absolutely everything, when he regards any institution, habit, or custom as being either everlasting, immutable, or inevitable. In the tragic view the need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star, and whatever it is that hedges his nature and lowers it is ripe for attack and examination. Which is not to say that tragedy must preach revolution. The Greeks could probe the very heavenly origin of their ways and return to confirm the rightness of laws. And Job could face God in anger, demanding his right, and end in submission. But for a moment everything is in suspension, nothing is accepted, and in ' this stretching and tearing apart of the cosmos, in the very action of so doing, the character gains "size."' the tragic stature which is spuriously attached to the royal or the highborn in our minds. The commonest of men may take on that stature to the extent of his willingness to throw all he has into the contest, the battle to secure his rightful place in his world. There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism. Even the dictionary says nothing more about the word than that it means a story with a sad or unhappy ending. This impression is so firmly fixed that I almost hesitate to claim that in truth tragedy implies more optimism in its author than does comedy, and that its final result ought to be the reinforcement of the onlooker's brightest opinion of the human animal. For, if it is true to say that in essence the tragic hero is intent upon claiming his whole due as a personality, and if this struggle must be total and without reservation, then it automatically demonstrates the indestructible will of man to achieve his humanity. The possibility of victory must be there in tragedy. Where pathos rules, where pathos is finally derived, a character has fought a battle he could not possibly have won. The pathetic is achieved when the protagonist is, by virtue of his witlessness, his insensitivity, or the very air he gives off, incapable of grappling with a much superior force. Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible. And it is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them, and in them alone, lies the belief--optimistic, if you will--in the perfectibility of man. It is time, I think, that we who are without kings took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time--the heart and spirit of the average man. Source: Guth, Hans P. and Gabriele L. Rico, Discovering Literature. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1993), pp
10 Homework Read Tragedy and the Common Man and answer the following questions. 1. What, for Miller, is the most essential quality of the tragic hero or heroine? 2. What are his arguments against the traditional view that tragedy befalls only people of high status? 3. How does Miller redefine the tragic flaw? 4. What does he mean by the purely psychiatric and the purely sociological views of life? 5. Why are both views hostile to the spirit of true tragedy? 6. What, to Miller, is the difference between tragedy and pathos? 7. According to Arthur Miller, what one quality causes every tragic hero to fall? 8. Based on Miller s point about that quality, why does the common man fit so perfectly into the role of a tragic hero? 9. What is one thing that separates the traditional tragic hero from a common everyman tragic hero? And is that one thing important, in his view? 10. What does Miller say about tragedies being viewed as being pessimistic? What reasoning does he give when he argues that tragedies are actually optimistic?
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