learning goal: how do you respond to the last act of the play? how do you think the first audiences responded?
together, read aloud the final act of Henrik Ibsen’s play, first performed in December 1879.
responses to the last act
13 Wednesday Dec 2017
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inlearning goal: how do you respond to the last act of the play? how do you think the first audiences responded?
together, read aloud the final act of Henrik Ibsen’s play, first performed in December 1879.
responses to the last act
11 Monday Dec 2017
Posted Doll's House, homework, reading
inBy the start of the W/Th class, please have read through the end of Act Two.
As you read, ask yourself how you would respond to these characters and this plot, if the story took place today.
Thank you.
11 Monday Dec 2017
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inlearning goal: how do associations with the play’s title evolve over the course of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House?
Act One: written response (TBA)
Act Two: read aloud together
08 Friday Dec 2017
Posted Doll's House, homework
inIf you have not already, download (export to PDF) a copy of Henrik Ibsen’s play, A Doll’s House. You will find a link on this course blog’s page called “World Poets, Poems, and Plays.”
By the Monday/Tuesday class, please have read through the end of Act One.
As you read, see what you think about the play’s title. Mark at least three separate lines on your downloaded copy–lines that contribute to your early thinking about the title.
07 Thursday Dec 2017
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inlearning goal: after reading the play’s opening scenes, how do you make sense of the title?
download play from this blog’s page called “World Poets, Poems, and Plays”
06 Tuesday Dec 2016
Posted Doll's House, homework, reading
inin time for the start of class, finish reading Ibsen’s play, first performed in December of 1879
05 Monday Dec 2016
Posted agenda, discussion, Doll's House, listening
inlearning goals: how do you decide which questions about plot and character need answering before others? How do authors use uncertain situations to bring readers or audiences into a story? Does a play do this differently than a short story or novel?
Review questions that people have after the first two acts of Ibsen’s 1879 play, A Doll’s House.
What are the current ramifications of the play’s title?
Take parts and together start reading Act 3 together
(How do you imagine the play’s conflicts will be resolved? What in the play so far leads you to imagine such resolutions?)
01 Thursday Dec 2016
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inlearning goal: How can initial questions raised in a story work to the story’s advantage in the long run? When reading a story, what kinds of uncertainty fuel you, or frustrate you?
the gift of time (to read as far into Act Two as you thoughtfully can)
Which of your initial questions have (a) been answered (b) grown more complicated or (c) remained? What do the conditions of your questions suggest about the central conflicts of the play?
29 Tuesday Nov 2016
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inand please come with questions small or large, specific or general
thank you
29 Tuesday Nov 2016
Posted agenda, Doll's House, reading
inlearning goals: Which marks appear most often in my writings so far? After reading the opening scenes of Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House, what questions do I most want to ask? (Among the various questions I have, why do I want most to ask these several ones?
time to update Qmark Tally Sheets (QMTS)
hand updated QMTS to Mr. Brown
time to start reading Ibsen’s play, available on this course blog ()
time to respond to Mr. Brown about your early reading of Henrik Ibsen’s play, which is set in late 19th c. Scandinavia/western Europe–format TBA