Week at a glance Janurary 13-17, 2014

Attention must be paid..." This week we'll wrap a draft of the Technical Essay before moving on to our first official reading unit of the semester: Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.. It's a tale of a salesman desperately aiming for the American dream brought down by his own tragic flaws. As we read the play in class, we'll be focusing on the relationships between the characters and how Miller shows how events in the past inescapably shape our future.  Students will be reading, discussing, and analyzing the play in class.  They will not have work outside of class during this unit until we wrap up the play and move on to the essay.

• Mon: Technical Essay - printed rough draft due. Death of a Salesman: answer pre-reading questions for Tuesday.
• Tues: Death of a Salesman - discuss pre-reading questions, background, and assign parts
• Wed: Death of a Salesman - begin reading and discussing Act One, pages 1-23
• Thurs: Death of a Salesman - continue reading and discussing Act One, pages 1-23.
• Fri: Death of a Salesman - review the first part of Act One.  Act One, part one study guide due by the end of the hour.