Vocabulary
A short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme.
What is an epigraph?
state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation.
What is Jim Crow?
A symbol for the idea of keeping people in and shutting others out. Constantly used in the play (TITLE)
What is Fences?
A person who performs a role or represents a character in a play, using vocal as well as physical techniques to bring the character to life.
What is an actor?
Who is the best 10th grade teacher
Ms. Wilson or Mr. Breaux
The process of becoming similar to something
What is assimilation?
The action or state of setting someone or something apart from others
What is segregation?
Main character of the play Fences. Former baseball player and current
Who is Troy?
A narrative as revealed through the action and/or dialogue; traditionally, a plot has the elements of exposition, inciting incident, conflict, rising action, climax, and resolution or falling action.
What is a plot?
Who is our Dean of Middle School
Ms. Nevado or Ms. Lynch
The edges or borders of something
What are margins
United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans.
What are Negro leagues?
One of the most influential playwrights of the black community. Creating plays like Ma Rainey and Fences?
Who is August Wilson?
The time and place in which the action of the play takes place; the units of scenery that combine to suggest a particular place.
What is a setting?
What time does D-Block end
1:30 pm
Admit someone to a position or organization
What is induct?
The movement of people from one place to another with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location
What is migration?
Actress who plays Rose, Troy's wife, in the film version of fences
Who is Viola Davis?
A work written to be spoken by just one person. (A speech in a play)
What is a monologue?
What does Ms. O'Brien teach
POINT, EVIDENCE, EXPLANATION, LINK, TRANSITION, EVIDENCE, EXPLANATION, LINK.
What is PEELTEEL?
Who directed Fences the movie?
Who is Denzel Washington
The city that Fences took place in. A large migration area for blacks after the war.
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
The problem, confrontation, or struggle in a scene or play; conflict may include a character against him or herself, a character in opposition to another character, a character against nature, a character against society, or a character against the supernatural.
What is conflict?
When is the memoir paper due?
TODAY!!!