Agenda:
Check Philosophy
Peer Revision
Review Characters and Plot
Read Act 1
Break
Response Questions/Expectations thrown out!
Essay Test Questions
Act II  Acting out scenes
MONDAY DECEMBER 8 TH
HW: POLISHED PHILOSOPHIES DUE WEDNESDAY
Rough Drafts Out!
I’m coming around to check
More polished drafts should be ready for Wednesday (our next work
day).
Peer Revision
Find a partner and trade essays.
Read the essay two times through.
Use the peer revision guide handout to mark the rough draft and/or take notes
on the handout.
Spend time conferencing about each piece:
When it’s your turn to listen to feedback, listen and process whether or not you
want to take the advice. You don’t need to defend your rough draft.
When it’s your turn to provide feedback, make sure you are respectful and
highlight the good as well as the areas that need attention.
Review of Characters and Plot
What’s happened so far?
Jack/Ernest
Algy
Let’s continue reading!
Follow along
Irony
Situational: There’s a difference between what is expected and
fitting and what actually happens or what is said. In this play it
usually happens when there is a contrast between the characters’
elegance and their absurdity.
Dramatic: The actions and words of the characters means different
things to the character and the readers because the reader has more
knowledge.
Essay Test Questions
Essay test will be on December 19th (next Friday).
It is very similar to your Death of a Salesman essay test. You will
answer one of these questions with depth, substance, and analysis.
You will also incorporate one research source.
Stay tuned.
Open-note! Open-book!
Expectations are thrown out!
Expression is more important than accuracy
Married households don’t keep first-rate champagne
Lower class sets example
Divorce court is made in heaven
Wilde’s Scrutiny
Church/Religion
Marriage/Love
Education/Academia
Wealth/Class
All attacks are masked by wit!
Act II
The setting moves from a luxurious London Apartment (Act I) to an established
country estate (Act II).
We meet Cecily. She is Jack’s ward.
Miss Prism is Cecily’s governess.
Rev. Chasuble is Miss Prism’s friend.
Acting Out Act II
You have been assigned a scene.
Divvy up roles as a group.
Practice reading your lines.
Incorporate some blocking Where will you stand? How will you sit?
Props are not necessary.
English accents are welcome
* If you internalize what you read and act it out, bringing it to life, then you are
showing me that you learned and understand.
Act 2 Summary
 Scene: Jack’s country home in Woolton
 Miss Prism and Cecily are introduced.
 Miss Prism and Rev. Chasuble strike up a romance.
 Algy shows up pretending to be Earnest Worthing.
He and Cecily hit it off.
 Jack shows up pretending that he’s just heard that
his brother Earnest is dead.
 Gwendolen arrives and meets Cecily. They both
believe they’re engaged to Earnest Worthing
 Things become disastrously clear.