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Packet 24: Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, Scenes 4-5 (have completed by Mar. 19):
PLEASE do not wait to start this until the day before it is due. You will not be able to complete the work in that
short amount of time! Pace yourself; follow this schedule.
Friday:
1) Learn this week’s sentence structure: adjective clause. Watch the video on the course
website. For more on this sentence structure, consult Degen, pg. 134.
2) Begin The Glass Menagerie reading assignment, pg. 2.
Over the Weekend and Monday:
3) Work on the rough draft of your poetry essay.
4) Continue The Glass Menagerie reading assignment, pg. 2.
Tuesday, March 12:
5) Finish The Glass Menagerie reading assignment, pgs. 2.
6) Write four sentences using an adjective clause about The Glass Menagerie. Underline
the adjective clause in each sentence.
Wednesday, March 13:
7) Work on the rough draft of your poetry essay. Email by the end of the day on Thursday.
What to Bring for Next Class: Bring your printed Packet 24; please bring the printed .pdf file for
Packet 25 (on website) so I can answer questions about it. Bring your annotated copy of The
Glass Menagerie. Email the paper parts on time—the rough draft is due by the end of the day on
Thursday. Email the four sentences using adjective clause.
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The Glass Menagerie Reading Assignment 2
Note: You do not have to write out the topics below. These are for you to annotate: mark and make a note in your
book.
1) Read The Glass Menagerie, Scene 4. As you read, mark the following in your book and make
notes in the margin:
a. Mark significant phrases in the stage directions about Tom.
b. Mark and note what commentary Tom makes relating Malvolio the Magician to his own
life.
c. Mark and note words/phrases that reveal more of Tom and Amanda’s relationship. How
does this scene set up conflict?
d. Mark and note Amanda’s concern for Laura and Tom’s response.
Notes: A Daumier print is a work by a French artist whose art commented on social and political
life in 19th century France. The Jolly Roger is the familiar skull and crossbones flag of pirates.
2) Read The Glass Menagerie, Scene 5. As you read, mark the following in your book and make
notes in the margin:
a. Mark and note the significance of the screen legend that begins this scene.
b. Mark the allusions to world events in the first few pages of scene 5. Note their
significance.
c. Mark Tom’s description of the dance hall and note its significance.
d. Mark significant words/phrases in the conversation in which Tom announces the
gentleman caller. Note what they reveal about Amanda and Tom, and how they highlight
the conflict between them.
e. Mark Amanda’s references to the past (present-future) and her husband, and note their
significance.
f. Mark Tom’s remarks about Laura, and note their significance.
Notes: Berchtesgaden—a German city, where Nazi leaders built their homes in the 1920s.
Chamberlain’s umbrella—Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the U.K. from 1937-1940,
best known for his early appeasement of the Nazis in Europe. Guernica—A town in Spanish
Basque country bombed in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War; the headline “Franco Triumphs!”
on Tom’s newspaper alludes to the victories won by the Spanish Nationalists (who would later
establish an authoritarian regime under Francisco Franco) against the Republicans.
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