The beginning of The Piano Lesson

Hello all, welcome to a new 6 weeks. We are continuing to move forward towards the end of the school year and continuing on in literature. Next stop on our list is The Piano Lesson by August Wilson. Today, we got a lot of information and took a lot of notes. To ease this, I will put these files on this site so that you can have access at home to these notes.

Vocabulary 1 for The Piano Lesson

Copy the 10 words down with their definition. Once done, you need to write 10 sentences using these words and turn them in by Wednesday, March 17th.

August Wilson Biography

This information is necessary for this unit and will give you a good background on the information that will be on a unit test over this play.

The Piano Lesson introduction and family tree.

Here is the family tree for the Charles family that we will be studying during the course of this play. The names and relations are good to keep in mind because they can get very confusing.

Along with these presentations, there was a prediction writing assignment that is the last slide on the "Introduction and Family Tree" presentation. This short writing is the points for the day.

The "I am..." poem is due today by 3 p.m. with a physical copy or before 5 p.m. by email. My email address is: djmyers@willamette.edu and you can email me your poem today. After today, this will be a late assignment. Part of this assignment is recording the first two lines with me and this can be done after school at any time, just come and see me before hand. We will be moving on in curriculum so we will not be able to dedicate more class time to this project. Please get this in, it will be late after today and is a portion of my grades as well.

See you in class on Wednesday for our last class before Spring Break!