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WHOSE REALITY. Context for a context. Learning objective. To be able to draw on arguments presented by Tennessee Williams to create your own text. Yep … skills time. Reading for meaning Note taking Making connections Brainstorming. What do you expect?. Read the info sheet.
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WHOSE REALITY Context for a context
Learning objective • To be able to draw on arguments presented by Tennessee Williams to create your own text. • Yep … skills time. • Reading for meaning • Note taking • Making connections • Brainstorming
Read the info sheet • Read the info sheet and create two columns of notes. • VOCAB: • Ostracized – excluded from society or a group • Effeminate – showing characteristics regarded as typical of a woman • Solace – comfort in a time of distress • Genteel –polite, respectable in an overtly obvious way • Lobotomy – a type of brain surgery
REFLECTION AND CONNECTION • What were you right about? • What connections are there to his play?
KEY IDEAS • What shapes Williams reality? • What trauma does he experience? • What is the outcome of this? • Seeing some links here?
Prompt • We construct reality from stories we tell ourselves • Brainstorm - • How does Williams construct his reality? • What stories does he tell himself? • HOW do we see this in the play? • WHY do we see this in the play?
PROMPT • We construct reality from stories we tell ourselves • Writing ideas – • How can you use what you’ve already practiced? • Literary or formal language? • How can you show “stories” rather than just tell the reader about it?
REVISIT THE GOAL • To be able to draw on arguments presented by Tennessee Williams to create your own text. • DID YOU GET STUCK ANYWHERE? • We will continue this goal tomorrow • But you should have a score for how well you think you’ve gone with the skills we went through today. • Tomorrow – digging deeper