Class Two

Journal #1 (two parts):

Part One: What do the terms lower-income, middle-income, and upper-income mean to you? Be specific. (7 mins) Be sure to be using your basic writing skills from Eh 123/124!

Part Two: How do people from different economic backgrounds relax and have fun, or recreate? Describe how you envision lower-income, middle-income, and upper-income people your age recreating.  What are the similarities and differences? (7 mins)

Journal # 2 (two parts):

Part One: What is your working definition for play?

Part Two: Write about the first meaningful job you held and what it was about that job that you liked the most and least. (7-10 mins)

Mini-Lecture:

Mini-Lecture in action:

Part One:

How is play represented in “The Untold Lie.” Why might play look the way it does here? Write and submit your answers (10 minutes).

Part Two:

How did the reading inform your understanding of the relationship between “play” and “character.”

Homework: Re-Reading Assignment:

Re-read  “The Untold Lie” by Sherwood Anderson

2 page assignment:

Part One:  Identify and comment on specific character details in the story that do not directly relate to the concept of play.

Part Two: Once you have identified important character details that do not directly relate to the concept of play, I want you to describe how these details may be considered against those details that do more obviously relate to play. Explain to me how an understanding of both “sets” of details can broaden your understanding of individual “characters.”

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