Planning and reporting

If you have read and reported on the forum on your reading of one section of The Dollar Woman, you should get together with the other people who read and reported on the same section, and spend about fifteen minutes figuring out what you need to tell the rest of us about what happens in your part of the play. If you haven't read and reported on your reading, you can't participate. Go away, and come back at 4:00.

We'll ask each group, in turn, to come up to the front and report on what we should know about what's in your section of the play. Each group will have about five minutes to summarize, and there'll be a couple of minutes for questions after each presentation.

For next time

You need to see the production of The Dollar Woman, and post a descriptive reflection (as usual, think of it as an extended inkshed) on the experience on the "Seeing The Dollar Woman" forum. You also need to reply thoughtfully to the reflections of two other people.

I had been told that there was a performance scheduled for tomorrow afternoon, but either there was a mistake or the performance has been cancelled, so you will need to see one of the following performances: tomorrow night, Thursday, Friday, or Saturday night, or Sunday afternoon. With a student ID you can get tickets for $10, courtesy of McCain's. (You can do this on line or by phone, with a credit card; otherwise you need to go to the Playhouse box office.)

When you write, pay attention as much as you can to what characters in the play believe -- especially what the characters in the section you read believe, and how you know it, based on what they say (you have a script of your part, so you have time to consider in some detail what they believe, and how you know). You need to post before the weekend (that is, before you leave for spring break). You can read other people's postings and reply to at least two of them any time in the next few days.

"Next time,"  in English 1006, will be the Tuesday after spring break. You should, in preparation for that class meeting, have read all the postings and chosen two passages from other people's writing that you think worth discussing (looking especially for thoughts about what various people in the play believe, or what you think the playwrights believed, or how beliefs got changed). Copy the relevant part of each posting into a new word processor page, explain below it why you think it's worth attending to, and print each out on a separate page. Bring your pages to class on Tuesday, March 13.