scenes from the one-act plays; finishing the guides
[note: this first section should have been deleted before the prompt was printed and distributed]
Reread as many as you can, and, before Friday at class time, post at least one suggestion for a section of a play -- anything from a few lines to a couple of dozen -- that you'd like to draw to everybody's attention. As you choose your scene, think about it from the point of view of this class's concerns: what theatregoers bring to them to the theatre, what their expectations might be, how the work as it sits on the stage might pose problems for the stage, etc. Transcribe the section of the text you're proposing we discuss into a file, head it with your name, the name of the play, and if it makes sense the page or other indication of the location in the text), and save it to your engl2223 folder with the filename discuss.htm. Be prepared to explain on Friday morning why you think it would be useful to talk about it before we see what Ilkay and her class have done with it.
the status of the guides
I'll have copies of the two booklets, as far as I've been able to get them.You should take some time between now and 1:00 to look carefully at the ones you had anythng to do with, and email me any corrections or suggestions you have. Typos and suggestions for arrangement, of course -- but even more, if you think it looks sparse and can think of something useful or interesting to add, that wouild be particularly helpful. I'm expecting to print them early this afternoon. Luckily, I guess, we'll only need about 50 of each, so I can probably get them stapled and folded to deliver to the theatre before the end of the day.
for Wednesday
You'll have seen at least five of the plays. For at least five of them,
post responses to postings about having read the plays on the relevant
Forum (you can respond to your own, and you can respond to more than one
posting on the same play). You should make at least six postings by 9:00
next Wednesday morning.