GOOD AFTERNOON LADIES!

For today’s class, you will need:

- The Glass Menagerie - Notebook/paper- Pencils- iPad

Make sure to have everything with you before the bell rings!

BREAKDOWN OF TODAY’S CLASS

12:30 - 12:35: Greeting, attendance, and class breakdown

12:35 – 12:40: Questions on Scene 3

12:40 – 12:50: Important points and quotes from Scene 3

12:50 – 1:10: Reading of Scene 3 Part 2

1:10 – 1:15: Short individual response on symbols of escape

1:15 – 1:30: Group work on symbols of escape

1:30 – 1:40: Class discussion and question period

1:40 – 1:45: Assigning homework and closing remarks

The Glass Menagerie

By: Tennessee Williams

Questions/Comments on Scene 3

What are your questions/ comments on Scene 3?

SCENE 3

Please take out your copies of The Glass Menagerie, your notes and notebooks.

Review: highlighting important quotes, points and creative decisions.

IMPORTANT QUOTES

TOM: It became an obsession. Like some archetype of the universal unconscious, the image of the gentleman caller haunted our small apartment…

P. 19

IMPORTANT QUOTES

(Before the lights come up again, the violent voices of Tom and Amanda are heard. They are quarreling behind the portieres. In front of them stands Laura with clenched hands and panicky expression. A clear pool of light is on her figure throughout this scene.)

P. 20

IMPORTANT QUOTES

TOM: House, house! Who pays rent on it, who makes a slave of himself to –

P. 21

IMPORTANT QUOTES

(He tears the portieres open. The dining- room area is lit with a turgid smoky red glow…Their gesticulating shadows are cast on the ceiling by the fiery glow.)

P. 22

IMPORTANT QUOTES

(…Now we see Amanda; her hair is in metal curlers and she is wearing a very old bathrobe, much too large for her slight figure, a relic of the faithless Mr. Wingfield…)

P. 22

IMPORTANT QUOTES

AMANDA: What right have you got to jeopardize your job? Jeopardize the security of us all? How do you think we’d manage if you were-

P. 23

IMPORTANT QUOTES

TOM: … I say to myself, “How lucky dead people are!”…

P. 23

IMPORTANT QUOTES (With an outraged groan he tears

the coat off again, splitting the shoulder of it, and hurls it across the room. It strikes against the shelf of Laura’s glass collection, and there is a tinkle of shattering glass. Laura cries out as if wounded.)

(Music)

(Screen legend: “The Glass Menagerie.”)

LAURA (shrilly): My glass! – menagerie… (She covers her face and turns away.)

P. 24

Review: What is a symbol?

Symbol: a character, object, or happening which stands for something else and has a deeper meaning than face value

For example: A four leaf clover It is a plant, but also symbolizes good

luck

Short Individual Response on Symbols of Escape

Using your notebooks, write down potential symbols of escape from the play:

This can be done in bullet point form or in full sentences

Do not forget to support your ideas with evidence from the play

Include page numbers

GROUP ACTIVITY

In groups of 3 or 4, discuss your ideas from the short response.

Using the “Symbols of Escape” handout on Haiku, identify different symbols of escape found within the play

Once you have identified these symbols, think about the character(s) that is (are) associated with each symbol.

CLASS DISCUSSION AND

QUESTION PERIOD

FREE-WRITE

Guiding Questions:

How do you escape your reality? What would your symbol of escape

be? What do you do? Where do you go? Who are you with? Would you consider your method

healthy?

HOMEWORK

If you have not finished your free-write, please do so for homework

Read Scene 4 until p.29

Fill in the handouts that were posted on Haiku at the beginning of the unit.