Ninth Lit Project directions for Fences

Please be sure to read these directions COMPLETELY!!

Project:  Fences by August Wilson

 

PURPOSE:

 

In order to understand and appreciate a work of literature, it is important to understand its setting.  You are going to find out about the setting – the time and place – of the play FENCES.

 

THE TASK:

 

1. You are going to be composing a blog.  You will use the attached list of websites to assemble a “resource bank” of texts, photos, video clips, and music that reflect the period, background, and social situation of either the playwright, August Wilson, or of the characters in his play, FENCES -the protagonist Troy Maxson in particular. 

 

1. Your collection should include AT LEAST the following:

 

1.  
   1. A minimum of 8 photographic images
   2. A minimum of 2 headlines
   3. A minimum of 2 poems
   4. A minimum of 2 sound clips
   5. You may also include a video clip (optional)

 

1. Before you save your work, make sure that you check it against the grading rubric.  (see attached)

 

~ by debhill on April 15, 2008.