Fence Lesson 1 - 10
Lesson 1
Aim: Who is Rose and how is she described?
What does Troy mean to Rose (descriptions on Page 5 of the book)? Have Troy Rose have some one that will not hurt her or her children, and a spirit as a fine and illuminating one.
How does she see him?
How do Troy & Rose communicate?
How do they explain they way they met?
What does this indicate about their marriage?
Draw Troy’s family tree
Analyze the symbolism of baseball
Three-strike & you’re out ( robbery, M, his affair with Alberta)
Nine Innings( father, Gable, Lyon's mother, Lyons, Rose, Cory, Alberta, Ray Nell, Bono)
Steal Second
Aim: To analyze how we understand Troy through the dialogue
Journal
How do parents
react when you tell them you want to do something they’re never done before?
How does Troy react? Why does he react in such a way?
Why doesn’t he want to acknowledge that times have change?
What is Troy afraid of?
What does he say about Jackie Robinson?
What does this statement tell us about the kind of man Troy is
Why can’t he acknowledge J.R as an
outstanding player?
What kind of baseball player does Troy remember himself as?
What does he say about Jackie Robinson?
What does this statement tell us about the kind of man Troy is?
Why can’t he acknowledge J.R as an
outstanding player?
How might Troy’s frustrations hurt the ones he loves?
HW#2 In a well-organized paragraph explain the problems Troy has relating to people
Lesson 3
Aim: To continue to analyze Troy through dialogues
What sort of stories does Troy tell?
why does he tell these stories?
what do they tell us about him?
How does Troy describe (D?)
what does he mean by a fastball on the outside corner?
when did Troy meet D?
why does he describe D as a person?
How does he confront him (D)?
Why does Troy tell this magnificently exaggerated story about D?
How does Troy believe he must deal with D?
How are Troy’s descriptions of D and the devil similar to mythology?
HW #3 What sort of experiences change us?
Composition: AN EXPERIENCE THAT CHANGED ME
Paragraph 1- Before
Paragraph 2-The experience
Paragraph 3 - How it changed me/how I learned
Lesson 4
Aim: To analyze Troy’s relationship with Lyons (Read Pages 13-19)
Journal
"Something I felt, but could not express…"
"Someone whom I feel distant from…"
What sort of
relationship might take place between an adult and a child whose parent wasn’t
there for him/her when he was growing up?
How is Lyons described?
How old was Troy
when he had Lyons?
What sort of ritual
do they go through each time Troy gets paid?
Why doesn’t Troy
just give Lyons the $ instead of going through his ritual?
What does this tell
us about Troy?
How do Lyons and
Troy get along? Why so?
How does Troy
describe the devil?
How does the devil
find Troy? Pg.14
Who is the devil to
Troy?
HW #4 Write a
paragraph to describe the relationship between Troy and Lyons
Lesson 5
Aim: To compose our monologues
Journal
" I dislike Mondays -the worst day of the week, is because_______..."
What is the purpose of a monologue?( Pg, 13, 14,15)
How does Troy describe the devil? A white fellow that got good clothes and everything, with a clipboard in his hand.
How does Troy really feel about the devil?
What does he say?
What does he really mean?
Illustrate D in Troy's eyes (make a collage or draw a picture of D to Troy's point of view).
Create our own monologue about :Aids or Youth or any other topic you to want talk about (Structure should begin in the present and go back into the past to feel the story experience that changed life)
HW #5 Complete your monologue
Aim: To analyze the symbolism of Gabriel in Fences
Journal
"People aren’t always what they seem because…"
What is a fence? A fence is a barrier intended to prevent escape or intrusion or to mark a boundary.
What sort of problems do Troy and Rose have?
Why does Rose want Troy to build a fence? Rose want Troy to build a fence because she want to keep the family together and to protect them.
What is a fence to Rose? Rose want Jesus to be her and her family fence.
Why doesn’t Troy finish building the fence? I think because he doesn't want to get box in.
What is a fence to Troy? Some thing that broke him in.
Why doesn’t he want to be kept in? I think he doesn't want to be kept in because I think that he wants to move on to a new relationship.
What are some handicaps that people have? Their race, their education, and their family.
How do people overcome their disabilities?
How are normal people also handicapped?
What is Gable's handicap? Pg. 24
What is Troy’s?
In what ways does Gable seem severely handicapped?
How does Gable seem more aware of things than he appears?
Troy’s mad
why he moved out
wants to be independent
Saw Troy’s name in the book
listens to Troy
How does Troy react to Gable?
How does Rose defend him?
HW# 6: If Gable could talk sanely to Troy, what would he say to him in a letter?
In your journal, respond to-
"Something I felt, but could not express…"
There are many thing I feel that I can't express
"Someone whom I feel distant from…"
Lesson 7
Aim: To analyze Cory's relationship with his parents
Do Now: Write a journal entry about-
How do mothers and sons often relate?
How do fathers and sons often relate?
Activities:
Define each word and write a sentence:
Flabbergasted
Circumlocution
Facetious
in dubious
emulate
Belligerent
dissipate
hideous
melancholy
Quintessential
Read Act I, Scene 3 and discuss-
How do Cory and Rose relate to each other( Honestly/openness/She’s on his side)
Where is Troy coming from? Troy seen to becoming from Alberta's.
How does he lie to Rose?
How do Troy and Cory relate to each other? They both talk about baseball
Yes, sir;
TV
Baseball: How does Cory shut Troy up? When he say " You got warren Spahn and Lew
Burdette. I Bet you couldn't hit no home runs off Warren Spahn.
Why doesn’t Troy want Cory to play football? Troy doesn’t want Cory to play
football because Troy believe
that the white man would never let Cory nowhere near football.
Why might Troy not want Cory to go to college?
Why can’t Troy show love for Cory? Troy don't show love to him because he take
care of him because it's his responsibility to take care not love him.
Why doesn’t Troy want Cory to emulate him? Troy believe that his life is a mess,
and don't want Cory to have a mess up life too.
Why can’t Troy face the truth? Troy doesn't face the truth that he is too old to
play in the major leagues, he believe the reason is because of his color.
Do Troy and Cory demonstrate a typical father/son relationship? No I show a boss
to servant relationship, first because he compare him self to Troy and his boss,
and the way Troy talk to Cory and the way he answer.
Are Cory/Rose a typical mother/sons relationship?
How does Rose try to protect Cory from Troy?
What sort of problems exist between Troy/ Cory and Rose/Cory? How might these
problems be solved?
HW#7
Visit and read the two poetry sites( site A | Site B ). Read about the word
play. Think about an idea or an image you would like to describe, and then
choose a poetic form to describe it.
Lesson 8
Aim: To analyze Cory’s relationship with his father
Do Now: Write a journal about " A person I didn’t want to be like…"
Activities
Begin reading Act I Scene 4 and answer the following questions:
Why doesn't Troy want to listen to Lyons's play? He said it too noise, he to old
, and that he have wake up early in the morning.
How has Cory been successful?
Why doesn’t Troy want to accept Lyon’s money pg. 46? I think he doesn't feel
like taking it back, so he told him to put it in the bank.
What does Troy discover about Cory? Pg.49 Troy found out that Cory was
lying about working at the A&P.
How does Troy describe his father pg.50-53. His father only care about if his
self, not about his wife or his children and about working.
What does Troy reveal about himself? Pg. 54-44(robbery, murder, jail, Rose)
Steal money and food became robber, rob some one with knife person pull out a
gun and shot Troy stab his to D. Jail for fifteen year met Bono learn to
play baseball. told rose only her and baseball.
How is Troy similar to his father? Pg.57 He didn't care about Cory feeling only
about Cory working just like Troy father only care about him working.
How do Troy's feelings about his own wife affect his relation with his son?
Why did he destroy Cory’s chances of playing football?
HW #8 Write a well-organized paragraph describing what Rose might have done if
Fences took place in 2003..
Lesson 9
Aim: To analyze how Troy has built a fence around himself
Do Now: Write a journal about " A time when a friend and I had two different
ideas about the same thing..."
Activities:
Continue reading 64-72 and 73-77 and discuss & answer the following questions:
What does marriage mean to Troy? Compare to baseball Troy marriage is first base
and he glad for that Rose came into his life she mad him into a better man.
What does marriage mean to Rose( having loving and caring for a family; being
faithful; Sticking by )
Why does Tory become violent? Tory become violent because Rose said that
Troy take and don't give.
How does Troy react when confronted with the truth? When Bono talk to Troy about
his marriage with Rose it leads to Troy really admitting to cheating when he
says If you was messing around on Lucille I'd be telling you the same thing.
How has Troy shut out all the people who care about him? He shut out all this
friend and family by going down to Alberta, because he said step out of this
house and get away from the pressures and problem.
Why does Rose speak out later? Rose speak out because she feel mad because was
with Troy for eighteen years and all she hears is Troy complaining about his
life, so she said if he think she never wanted any thing.
Why doesn’t Troy hit Cory? He gives him another chance and I think to make Rose
feel kind of happy because she told him not to.
Lesson 10
Aim:
To analyze how Troy& Rose’s marriage has deteriorated pgs 70-77 (Setting six
months later)
To analyze how Troy lives out the rest of his life
Do Now: Write a journal about "If I could have anything in life, I would want
____because..."
Activities:
What has life become at the Maxons? ( not speaking, Troy not coming home after
work; Running in & out)
How has Troy betrayed Gable? He sign the paper that Gable should be in an mental
hospital.
Read pg.78-79 : What does Troy ask of Rose? How does Rose answer? Troy ask Rose,
if she could help him take care of Ray Nell. She said okay but she only going to
take care of the baby.
Read pg 80-90: How has Troy/Bono’s relationship changed? Pg82 Since Troy got the
promotion troy and Bono never really had time to talk to each other.
How does Troy Confront D? pg89 After fight with Cory Troy taunts D to
come for him.
Why does he now say he’s going to build a fence? Troy want to build a fence now
because he was to keep Cory out.
How does Cory come to terms with his father? Pg 90-95 ( Setting: 1945 (8 years
later)) . He said that his father was just a shadow that followed him every
where he went, trying to control his life.
How has Lyons followed in Tory’s footsteps? He