1.  Please get out your Death of a Salesman summary. o Make sure you have updated it to the point where we left off yesterday.

2.  EQ: How do Arthur Miller’s choices about structure (particularly Willy’s day dreams of the past) influence how we interpret DoaS as a tragedy?  Agenda o Bell Ringer: Preparing the DoaS summary o Agenda/EQ o Reading Section 3 Watching Section 3 Summarizing Section 3

3.  Beginning of Act 1 to the Woman’s appearance o Narrator: Mrs. Hockenberry o Linda: o Willy: o Happy: o Biff: o Bernard:

4.  The Woman’s Appearance to the End of Act I  Narrator: Mrs. Hockenberry  Willy:  Linda:  The Woman:  Bernard:  Happy:  Biff:  Charley:  Ben:

5.  Section 3: (71-94) Beginning of Act II to Charley’s Second Entrance. o Willy o Linda o Howard o Howard’s Wife and Children o Ben o Bernard o Happy o Biff

7.  Please get out all of the planning materials you have prepared so far for our first short story. o Today we will be working on a character list. How many characters do you have? Which ones are main characters? Which ones are background players?

8.  EQ: How can we engage and orient the reader when writing short stories?  Agenda o Bell Ringer/Discussion: Starting Character List o Agenda/EQ o Character List Homework: Finish character list Tomorrow: Writing Scary Story in Lab

9.  Create a list of the characters you need for your first short story. o Remember: limit developed characters o Make sure you follow the do’s and don’ts. o Don’t settle on the first characters you think of. Everything you choose must serve a purpose within the story. If it’s not working towards your overall goal, you probably shouldn’t include it. o Character List (name, age, appearance, necessary background info, balance of characteristics [good and bad], transformation within the story) o What are the conflicts within the story? List all.