Today, we watched the end of the film, The Importance of Being Earnest. Be sure that you can find examples from the play to match the comedic elements on the handouts I gave you.
Free-response essay questions and rubrics are available at the link below:
Free Response Questions and Rubrics
As you prepare for the free response essay, focus on the works we studied together because the notes we took during class and the discussions we had focus on literary interpretation that is unique and well developed, unlike the notes you find on sites such as Spark Notes, for example.
For each work we studied: Hamlet, Death of a Salesman, your independent novel/play, Portrait of the Artist, The Outsider, The Great Gatsby and The Importance of Being Earnest
choose three key scenes that you know inside/out. If you know these scenes well, you will be able to adapt them to several questions.
For example, think of the bedroom scene in Hamlet:
Re-read it. List all the themes that it touches on: power, sex, passion, reason, order/disorder, appearance and reality, murder, regret, remorse, The Great Chain of Being, the climax of the play, character development, relationship between Hamlet and his mother, madness, ghost, father's role, love (I could go on).
Know what you want to say about each theme. Support yourself with evidence from the text.
Wednesday's class we'll go over the key scenes.
Thursday, 8:05 is the exam in the gym. Bring black and blue pens and at least two sharpened pencils. Bring water. Dress in layers. Wear comfortable clothing.
