reading, discussing, and extending someone else's research

We have a limited amount of time to learn about this play and decide what, among the things we learn or know, would be most useful to folks settling down in their seats in Memorial Hall next week waiting for the lights to go down. We'll start that this morning by reading and discussing the reports people have posted on the questions I distributed last time; we'll then do a quick round in which people can say whatever they like about them.

developing some questions that need to be asked (and perhaps answered)

We'll then take ten minutes for people to list questions they'd like answered about the play. We'll circulate the lists and others will be invited to prioritize them: everybody will indicate the most and least important (and answerable) questions on at least a couple of other people's lists. We'll divide those questions up, and each person will take one or two to find out about between now and Friday morning. (Depending on timing, we may need to complete this on line, via email, after class this morning.)

By 8:30 Friday morning, you should have posted a report on what you've found out (and where you've found it) as research2.htm in your engl2223 folder.

On Friday morning we'll begin (and with some luck, complete) the process of selecting what, out of what we've learned, should go into a Playgoer's Guide for The Rover.