During period 7, please complete the following tasks:
1. Work on completing your collaborative play project. Try to conclude your play script if you have not already done so. Print out a copy of your group's play and turn in for credit. Keep a copy of your play script in your portfolio.
2. Research Lorraine Hansberry at this link (read the article). Be able to explain what important impact she had on American literature. What did she accomplish in her short lifetime?
3. Please read this poem by Langston Hughes: Harlem. Hansberry is using Hughes' poem as an allusion for the title of her work. As you read the play, consider why she decided to do this.
4. Research the setting of A Raisin in the Sun. The south side of Chicago in 1959. Something important happened just a year or two before Hansberry wrote her play. Look here to find out what:
1957. Please continue to research and find information about this time period. Some questions to help guide your research are:
Images of the civil rights movement
Images of “the children’s crusade" of the civil rights movement
Timeline of the civil rights movement
During period 8, we'll begin watching the play next door.
To help us out, we want to pay attention to some film terms:
Camera: (helps create POV, just like in fiction!)
Shots: long shot, medium shot, close-up
Lighting: (helps create tone/mood, just like in fiction!)
High key lighting (bright, full light, often warm)
Low key lighting (low light; shadowy and dark, very cool or cold)
Music/Sound FX: (helps create tone/mood, just like in fiction!)
Diegetic (sound/music that characters can hear)
Non-diegetic (sound/music that only the audience can hear; the characters in the world of the film do not hear or react to non-diegetic sound)
Character: (creates character)
Acting (acting is the skill of portraying a character believably; good actors are convincing as their characters)
Costumes (complimentary colors show compatibility; contrasting colors show opposition/conflict)
Color film (Technicolor) had already been invented and was used in many films in the 1960's when this film was made. The choice to shoot the film in black and white, then, is a deliberate choice by the director. What does shooting the film in b&w add to the tone and mood of the film?
HOMEWORK: None.
1. Work on completing your collaborative play project. Try to conclude your play script if you have not already done so. Print out a copy of your group's play and turn in for credit. Keep a copy of your play script in your portfolio.
2. Research Lorraine Hansberry at this link (read the article). Be able to explain what important impact she had on American literature. What did she accomplish in her short lifetime?
3. Please read this poem by Langston Hughes: Harlem. Hansberry is using Hughes' poem as an allusion for the title of her work. As you read the play, consider why she decided to do this.
4. Research the setting of A Raisin in the Sun. The south side of Chicago in 1959. Something important happened just a year or two before Hansberry wrote her play. Look here to find out what:
1957. Please continue to research and find information about this time period. Some questions to help guide your research are:
- What were the social, economic, political and educational expectations and opportunities for African Americans at this time?
- What advances had been made in civil rights?
- What significant changes will occur in America during the years between 1950's and 1965?
Images of the civil rights movement
Images of “the children’s crusade" of the civil rights movement
Timeline of the civil rights movement
During period 8, we'll begin watching the play next door.
To help us out, we want to pay attention to some film terms:
Camera: (helps create POV, just like in fiction!)
Shots: long shot, medium shot, close-up
- Long shots are often used to establish setting
- Medium shots are used during dialogue
- Close up shots are used to show reaction/expression of an actor, or an important detail
Lighting: (helps create tone/mood, just like in fiction!)
High key lighting (bright, full light, often warm)
Low key lighting (low light; shadowy and dark, very cool or cold)
Music/Sound FX: (helps create tone/mood, just like in fiction!)
Diegetic (sound/music that characters can hear)
Non-diegetic (sound/music that only the audience can hear; the characters in the world of the film do not hear or react to non-diegetic sound)
Character: (creates character)
Acting (acting is the skill of portraying a character believably; good actors are convincing as their characters)
Costumes (complimentary colors show compatibility; contrasting colors show opposition/conflict)
Color film (Technicolor) had already been invented and was used in many films in the 1960's when this film was made. The choice to shoot the film in black and white, then, is a deliberate choice by the director. What does shooting the film in b&w add to the tone and mood of the film?
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