The School for Scandal
Reading Schedule
One act every 2-3 days.
Act 1 due Tuesday, Oct 6th
Act 2 due Thursday, Oct 8th
Act 3 due Tuesday, Oct 13th (reading QUIZ)
Act 4 due Thursday, Oct 15th
Act 5 due Tuesday, Oct 20th
Portrait/Prologue
-notes-analysis
Comedy of Manners
-define
-in the Restoration period
--clips
Status Improvisation
HW Read Act 1 for TUESDAY
Play Structure Graphic
Act 1: Review Character, motives, plot; match
-dramatic reading
HW Read Act 2 for THURSDAY
THURSDAY-FRIDAY
2004 M/C practice "Nows and Laters" #1-11
-Read silently and circle best answer (20 minutes)
--work with a partner, writing a short justification for every answer.
Review Act 2: If Restoration comedy
Looking at Restoration Comedy through the lens of social prescription; is marriage an institution which uplifts society during the Restoration period, is it now?
The definition of comedy and the background of the Restoration Comedy helps to explain the themes that run throughout these plays. One of the major themes is marriage and the game of love. However, if marriage is a mirror of society, the couples in the plays show something very dark and sinister about order. Many critiques of marriage that we see in the play are devastating, but the game of love is not much more hopeful. Although the endings are happy and the man invariably gets the woman (or at least that is the implication), we see marriages without love and love affairs that are rebellious breaks with tradition.
http://classiclit.about.com/cs/articles/a/aa_restoration.htm
Dramatic Reading 2.2: parlor gossip
-identify themes
HW Read Act 3 for Tuesday (Reading Quiz); for Tuesday, complete Graphic Organizer T-Graph (you will have time to work on it on Monday).
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