Act 2 S1 Notes

• Bennie wears Asagai's gift
• She dances a traditional Nigerian dance
• Walter is drunk
• George comes over
• They are going to a theatre
• Bennie cut her hair off
• Walter lies about New York
• He tries to influence George
• What a shocker, Walter is angry again and talking about his dreams and no family support
• George calls Walter Prometheus
• Ruth and Walter fight (a little) but Walter says things he shouldn't have said
• They are at peace (and kiss)
• Mama comes back and shortly after that Travis comes home too
• MAMA BOUGHT A HOUSE
• IN A WHITE NEIGHBORHOOD
• Walter's dream is crushed

Notes

Mama

• Lena, Mama
• Around 60 years old
• Strong, caring, religious
• The "head" of the house
• Very christian
• Dreams about a new house and a garden
• Has a thick accent in addition to very poor education
• Wants best for her children

Ruth

• Ruth
• Around 30 years old
• Calm, caring
• Loves her son
• Very attarcive but very tired
• Thinks about the family first
• Does not dream big like Bennie/Walter
• Very similar to Mama in a sense

Walter

• Walter Lee, Brother, Walter
• 35 years old
• Ambitious
• Has a very loud voice
• Argues with Bennie
• Walks like he owns the place
• The man in the family
• Poor education
• Dreams about money
• Wants to open a liquior store

Characters:

• Ruth

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• I hopes to God you ain’t going to get up here first thing this morning and start talking to me ‘bout no money
• Very straightforward and calm when possible

• Tears Dry on Their Own - Amy Winehouse

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• Walter Lee

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• Man says to his woman: I got me a dream. His woman says: Eat your eggs. Man says: I got to take hold of this here world, baby! And a woman will say: Eat your eggs and go to work

• Loud, loving, busy, strict

• Money that's what I want

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• Lena

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• Ain’t nobody said you weren't grown. But you are still in my house and my presence

• Loving, caring, wise, religious, strong

• Dear Mama

Character study (Dasha, Cole, John)

1. Beneatha
2. Bennie, sister
3. 20 years old
4. Slim and intense like her brother; Not as pretty as Ruth; Has lean and almost intellectual face; Thick hair 
5. Her steps are very heavy at times when she is mad, but most of the time her walk is very light as she is still very young
6. Her speech is a mixture of many things; It's different from the rest of the family’s insofar as education has permeated her sense of English—and perhaps the Midwest rather than the South has finally—at last—won out in her inflection; but not altogether, because over all of it is a soft slurring and transformed use of vowels which is the decided influence of the Southside.
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8. Has a good relationship with Mama (mother); Neutral with Ruth and Travis; Some type of tension in her relationship with brother; She is not that close with the family members as they are very different
9. She always argues with Walter (mostly about her education and the money); argued with Mama because of religion
10. She sleeps with Mama in her bedroom
11. She goes to school
12. She does not contribute much to the family 
13. Stubborn, determined, immature, strong
14. Frustrated, annoyed, sad, satisfied
15. Argues for fun with Walter Lee (s1), gets slapped by Mama for questioning Christianity (s1), talks with Asagai (s2)
16. 1) That money belongs to Mama, Walter, and it’s for her to decide how she wants to use it. I don’t care if she wants to buy a house or a rocket ship or just nail it up somewhere and look at it. It’s hers. Not ours—hers
    2) The only people in the world who are more snobbish than rich white people are rich colored people
    3) It’s all a matter of ideas, and God is just one idea I don’t accept. It’s not important. I am not going out and be immoral or commit crimes because I don’t believe in God. I don’t even think about it. It’s just that I get tired of Him getting credit for all the things the human race achieves through its own stubborn effort. There simply is no blasted God—there is only man and it is he who makes miracles!
    1)  I can’t imagine that it would hurt him—it has never hurt the roaches
    2) You never understood that there is more than one kind of feeling which can exist between a man and a woman—or, at least, there should be
    3)  I’m not interested in being someone’s little episode in America
17. The fact that she went to school; her father's death; constant pressure from her brother and their age difference
18. Education, education, education
19. She wants to become a doctor 
20. Education, education, education
21. Spend on her future - eg education, real estate
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23. Run the World by Beyonce, God is a Woman by A. Grande, Sit Still Look Pretty by Daya, Confident by D. Lovato, No Excuses by M. Trainor, Fight Song by R. Platten, Stubborn Woman by D. Jade, Independent Women Pt by Destiny's child
24. A donkey because they are very stubborn
25. Rosa Parks, Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama

Scene 2 notes

• Saturday morning cleaning
• Cracks on the walls
• Travis doesn't know about Ruth collapsing
• At first, Bennie doesn't know where Ruth is either
• Ruth went to the doctor
• Cockroaches in the apartment so Bennie has to spray everything
• Asagai is coming over
• RUTH IS PREGNANT (2 months)
• Ruth cries
• Travis plays with the rat on the street and the other children
• Ruth covers his mouth when he talks about killing the rat
• Asagai comes over and brings Benny presents from Nigeria
• Asagai likes her but she does not like him back
• He has a Nigerian nickname for her
• The mailman brings the check
• Walter wouldn't listen to Ruth
• Mama does not give the money to Walter
• She tells Walter about the baby
• Ruth does abortion (or wants to?)
• Mama says her son is a disgrace
• Walter leaves the house

Quick question

1. Get into NYU, make lots of friends and decide what I want to do with my life
2. Continue mom's business successfully, travel to Japan and be super healthy
3. I get sad and lose motivation, but start doing something else instead
4. Both Bennie and Ruth, because Bennie is a teenager and her behavior around others is very relatable, and Ruth because she is very softhearted and the strongest mentally
5. I would feel trapped because of how hopeless the situation is; Also possibly depressed because I would not be able to do anything to help and most likely would feel like a burden

A Raisin in the Sun comments

• The family lives in a space too small to fit everyone with comfort - a mother and her daughter sleep in one bedroom, her son and his wife sleep in another, and their son sleeps in the living room
• The mother (Mama, Lena) is in her 60s
• The daughter (Beneatha) is about 20 years old
• The son (Walter Lee) is around 35 years old
• His wife (Ruth Younger) is in her 30s
• Their son (Travis) is 10-11 years old
• The setting and the details are not certain - Travis's age is 10-11 y.o., they share the bathroom with the other family/families
• The furniture in their home is very old and worn out
• They are a low-income colored family
• Ruth refuses to give 50 cents to Travis because they don't have money
• Their speech is not very "educated" (such as "You looks")
• Read the "paper" - newspaper
• All are curious about the check - insurance
• Bennie wants to be a doctor and her brother is mad about it because the school requires money
• Mama is very religious - Christian
• Mama's husband worked himself to death
• Mama's dream about a new house never came true
• Beneatha does not believe in God
• She is very stubborn and determined
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Feedback

Zach and Bowen

1. I was in the bathroom :(

Cole and Tom

1. A big improvement compared to the first performance - the beginning and the middle became a lot more clear. Good use of props and the stage
2. The ending was a bit unclear
3. Fear/misunderstanding
4. Friends
5. They could've added some lines to make a better ending

Amy and John

1. Good voice projection, good use of props
2. The meaning of "Don't" was unclear
3. Fear, anger, frustration, misunderstanding
4. Father/daughter
5. They could've edited the script to make the story a bit clearer

Mike and Percy

1. Good emotion and body language
2. A bit of confusion in the beginning
3. Frustration, calmness
4. Students - classmates
5. They could project their voices to make them a bit louder and therefore make the story more convincing

Abe and Dasha

1. Good use of space, good voice projection, the story is very clear, good emotion
2. The relationship was unclear in the first try
3. Anger, misunderstanding, frustration
4. A couple
5. Use more convincing body language 

Performance link

https://youtu.be/E6Vy9a-Yo3w

Theatre terminology activity

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NmK5RZfg02n_E8qfS32Y84PUeSXXlucLNSGk-yD6phw/edit?usp=sharing

Describing the card w/Abe

A white cradle crib is in the middle of the dark forest full of unwelcoming grey trees.

1. born with it --- genes
2. friend groups - society
3. parents
4. internet -- outside sources


The card portrays the innocence every baby is born with and how social influence has a negative impact on the child's purity.

Every newborn represents a blank painting canvas - they are pure and innocent, but when they g.

The tiny white cradle crib symbolizes the innocence every baby is born with, and the dark trees surrounding the crib portray the different opinions, morals and views parents will teach their child.

Review

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12EjxpuSX66sTCEcE90vmgG1uKHbfQQJgTaGEnUbRgzI/edit?usp=sharing

Second draft of card paragraphs

The mystery of the flying castle

Setting:
Engulfed by an endless blue sky, a light tiny castle is surrounded by fluffy white clouds. Six strong yellow ropes carrying the building are attached to a huge balloon. Compared to the size of the sphere, the castle looks like a little toy, weighing nothing. All colors on the image are very harmonious - different shadows of blue, white and yellow naturally fit each other. The colors on the balloon are mostly various shadows of blue - dark blue, light blue, blue mixed with a little bit of green, and very dark blue, looking almost like black. The castle colors are mostly different shadows of blue as well, however, there is a little yellow on the walls, implying the sunlight. In comparison to such an abundance of colors on the building and on the balloon, the plain white clouds look too simplistic and dull. The windows on the castle are all different sizes - some are tiny, some are huge. All roofs are conical, and the three main ones that are the tallest have little windows on them.


Plot:
All of a sudden, a tremendous earthquake struck the peaceful lands of Alfheim. A castle standing on a steep hill almost bounced off the ground. The thick walls began cracking, causing panic among the castle workers. Running around the building and trying to look for a safe spot, the workers did not notice any change outside the windows. The shaking and cracking did not stop, but the cause of it was different - making loud creaking noises, the building was slowly going up into the sky. The only calm soul in the entire building was the lord himself - sitting on a wide soft armchair, he was looking at the changing landscape outside the wide windows in his office. The tall green trees shrank in size and looked like little bushes; the houses in the nearby village reminded the old man of a dollhouse he bought for his daughter. Soon, he could only see huge white clouds and an endless blue sky outside the windows.
Only after the building reached the sky and all the shaking stopped, the frightened workers noticed a change in the landscape. Shocked, they stood still and stared at the plain blue sky. A few moments later, the lord came out of his office and said: "Please take a seat, our journey will be long.". After these words, he told them a long story about the strange earthquake, about the huge balloon carrying them and about where exactly it is going to take them. Listening to this mysterious story, none of them noticed that the memories of their loved ones started fading away... Moments shared with those outside the castle were replaced with the episodes spent within the thick walls. By the time the flying castle landed in sunny lands of Crimea, not a single soul in the building remembered their past outside the building.

Card paragraphs

Setting:
A light tiny castle is floating in the blue sky, surrounded by big white clouds. Six strong yellow ropes that are carrying the building are attached to a huge balloon. Compared to the size of the sphere, the castle looks like a little toy, weighing nothing. All the colors on the image are very harmonious. The colors on the balloon are mostly various shadows of blue - dark blue, light blue, blue mixed with a little bit of green, and very dark blue, looking almost like black. Furthermore, the castle colors are mostly different shadows of blue as well, however, there is a little yellow on the walls, implying the sunlight. In comparison to such an abundance of colors on the building and on the balloon, the plain white clouds look too simplistic and dull.


Plot:
All of a sudden, a tremendous earthquake struck the peaceful lands of Alfheim. A castle standing on a steep hill almost bounced off the ground. The thick walls began cracking, causing panic among the castle workers. Running around the building and trying to look for a safe spot, the workers did not notice any change outside the windows. The only calm soul in the entire building was the lord himself - sitting on a wide soft armchair, he was looking at the changing landscape outside the wide windows in his office. The tall green trees shrank in size and looked like little bushes; the houses in the nearby village reminded the old man of a dollhouse he bought for his daughter. Soon, he could only see huge white clouds and an endless blue sky outside the windows.
Only after the building reached the sky and all the shaking stopped, the frightened workers noticed a change in the landscape. Shocked, they stood still and stared at the plain blue sky. A few moments later, the lord came out of his office and said: "Please take a seat, our journey will be long.". After these words, he told them a long story about the strange earthquake, about the huge balloon carrying them and about where exactly it is going to take them. Listening to this mysterious story, none of them noticed that the memories of their loved ones started fading away... By the time the flying castle landed in sunny lands of Crimea, not a single soul in the building remembered their past outside the castle.

Happy New Year!!!!!!

Action verbs

1. Slept for 30 minutes
2. Took a lot of pictures 
3. Baked Cinnabons with my best friend
4. Ate good food
5. Celebrated New Year with my family
6. Partied all night
7. Shopped for groceries
8. Smiled from happiness
9. Laughed at my friend's jokes
10. Cried from tiredness

The card

Before: The castle was under danger of ruining due to an earthquake

After: The castle is flying away on the hot air balloon

Nouns:

1. Castle
2. Sky
3. Clouds
4. Balloon
5. Ropes
6. Windows
7. Walls
8. Roofs

Action verbs:

1. Flying
2. Carrying

Characters:

1. Castle
2. Hot air balloon

Colors:

1. Blue
2. White
3. Green
4. Yellow
5. Different shadows of blue, yellow, green

Background:

1. Sky

Five senses:

1. Hear wind
2. Touch the clouds 

Adjectives:

1. Light
2. Strong
3. High
4. Big

Specific details:

1. Castle is smaller than the balloon