Day 02: 03/16/2017
Finish Reading Act 01, Scene 01 of A Raisin in the Sun
Begin Reading Act 01, Scene 02 of A Raisin in the Sun
Double-Entry Bell-Ringer Journal
- Directions: For a double-entry bell-ringer journal, you need to spend 3 complete thoughts/sentences/independent clauses addressing the prompt present. After you have completed this initial task, you need to trade your response to another student. That student will give you feedback and provide an agree/disagree response to what you have written in 3 complete thoughts/sentences/independent clauses.
- Length: 3 complete thoughts/sentences/independent clauses per writing (2 writings total per student)
- Prompt: In what ways are the issues presented by the Younger family in A Raisin in the Sun similar to some issues that multi-generational, low-income households have today? Have we, as a society, made any progress to lesson these issues over the past 65 years?
Reading A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (Act 01, Scene 01)
- We will be reading the remainder of this scene out loud in class (students will volunteer for parts).
- As we are reading, be sure that you are working to complete your guided reading questions for this particular scene (see "Day 01: 03/14/17" for downloadable guided reading questions).
Reading A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (Act 01, Scene 02)
- The class will be beginning this section of the play by reading independently and answering the guided reading questions for this scene independently.
- Be sure to have finished reading all the way up to page 64 in your text.
- For users of the online text, the last line you will read is, "ASAGAI (Taken aback by this sudden and acutely unrelated expression of sympathy) Yes . . . yes . . ."