English 10- Today we looked at the anticipation guide for the upcoming play Fences that we will be reading. You are to answer and explain your answer to the following statements. Please complete this in your notebook:
Fences
by August Wilson – Anticipation Guide
Directions:
Select
an answer for each question and explain your reasoning.
1. A husband and father’s only responsibility is
to take care of his family’s needs (food, clothes, shelter), but he does not
need to like his children or his wife.
YES or NO
2. Having good friends and a good family are
more important than having a prestigious job or a successful career.
YES or NO
3. Before the beginning of the play beings, Wilson
has a poem that reads, “When the sins of our fathers visit us/ We do not have
to pay host./We can banish them with forgiveness…” Do you agree that we do not have to make the
same mistakes that our parents or older relatives made?
YES or NO
4. If something bad happened in our own lives,
or we were mistreated for certain reasons, we should not let our children
pursue their dreams because they could get hurt in the very same way?
YES
or NO
5. If you or your family was in desperate need of
something and you didn’t have any money, you would steal to provide for your
family.
YES
or NO
6. The man who takes care of his
responsibilities has more freedom than the man who does whatever he feels
like.
YES or NO
