Honors English III: Today

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Honors English III Todays Class

1. Reflection on The Glass Menagerie Essay
2. Introduction Our Town by Thornton Wilder and
   essay assignment
3. Review Notes How to Analyze Literature
4. View Our Town, pt. 1 take notes for in-class
   essay.
5. Notes will be collected at the end of class

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How did you do?

• Take a look at the AP Essay scoring rubric.
• Read back over your essay from last week.
• For a class work grade, analyze your essay based
  on these rubric guidelines, and explain what
  score your essay should have received, and why.
• This weeks essay will be scored based on this
  rubric for a quiz grade.
• If you did not turn one in, write a response
  explaining why you did not turn one in.
• If you turned in a homework pass, share someones
  essay sitting near you.

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Our Town by Thornton Wilder
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Our Town by Thornton Wilder (1938)

• At any given time on any given day, this play is
  being performed somewhere around the world.
• No scenery or props except for tables, chairs,
  ladders
• Purpose concentrate on characters, themes, and
  universality

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Our Town by Thornton Wilder

• Stage Manager- narrator and character
• Setting Grovers Corners, NH in 1901
• Titles of Acts
• Daily Life
• Love and Marriage
• Death

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Our Town by Thornton Wilder

• Themes
• People should appreciate life while they are
  living it.
• Carpe Diem (seize the day).
• Little things in life are really big things.
• No town can isolate itself from the rest of the
  world.
• No community is perfect, not even idyllic
  Grovers Corners.

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The Playwright Thornton Wilder

• 1897-1975
• Lost a twin brother at birth
• Army brat-lived in China for a while
• Wrote his entire life
• Globally acclaimed for his plays
• Works are still famous to this day

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Your Assignment Choose One

• 1997. Novels and plays often include scenes of
  weddings, funerals, parties, and other social
  occasions. Such scenes may reveal the values of
  the characters and the society in which they
  live. Select a novel or play that includes such a
  scene and, in a focused essay, discuss the
  contribution the scene makes to the meaning of
  the work as a whole. You may choose a work from
  the list below or another novel or play of
  literary merit
• 2004, Form B. The most important themes in
  literature are sometimes developed in scenes in
  which a death or deaths take place. Choose a
  novel or play and write a well-organized essay in
  which you show how a specific death scene helps
  to illuminate the meaning of the work as a
  whole. Avoid mere plot summary