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Level one: What were some of the specific praises that the author had for Fences?

Level two: Identify an example of humor in the review and explain its significance.

Level three: Do you agree with the author’s statement that the hero of this play is Troy Maxson? Do you think that reading the play versus watching it will have an effect on what people think of Troy?

Level four: Do you feel that you “looked with your own eyes, felt with your own heart” (pg. 790) when you read Fences. What is your initial reaction to the play, if not that?

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Level one: What is the author's message in the reading?

Level two: In the reading, the author states: “Fences does not, of course, present black men as failed human beings and women as the preservers of undamaged original spiritualities” (pg. 803). What does this mean to you?

Level three: In what ways do you believe that Fences was accurate in the ways that gender roles were represented for that time period?

Level four: After reading, do you agree with the statement: “Men’s and women’s languages in Fences reflect the separation of their spheres of activity” (pg. 802). Explain why or why not.

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Level one: How does the author describe Rose in the play?

Level two: Did the author describe Troy’s relationship with Rose as healthy?

Level three: Do you think that most people see Troy as a villain or a hero when they watch the play on a stage?

Level four: Was Bono a really big influence on Troy in the play? What made him an important character?

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Level 1: Explain why baseball is important to the story?
Level 2: What does it mean that "Troy's efforts to prevent his son from playing football can be viewed as a form of racial madness?
Level 3: How could the meaning of fences be different if another sport was involved?
Level 4: Do you agree that baseball is part of the American Dream?

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Level 1: Where did Wilson get his inspiration?
Level 2: How do the people in Wilson's life have and impact on how writing?
Level 3: What do you predict would influence Wilson the most?
Level 4: How do you feel about Wilsons ideas on how to write about women?

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Level 1: How does this play impact social change?
Level 2: Compare and contrast how a person of color and white person would have different perspectives.
Level 3: What would Wilson's writing be about if he used things that happened in today's world?
Level 4: Why is it important that Wilson is writing about his own experiences?

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level 1: Do you think a single piece of writing can enact social change?
level 2: How can this play further impact society today?
level 3: What do you think August Wilson meant when he said "No doubt drama is made up of sound and silence..." ?
level 4: Why is it important that Wilson was writing from his own perspective of black experience? How does that affect the story?

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level 1: how has Troy developed as a character throughout the play?
level 2: how does the way Troy treat his wife differ from how he treats his children?
level 3: do you think the film would be much different if the actors were different?
level 4: do you agree with this statement Rich made "conflict disputes between first-generation American parents and their rebellious children."?

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1.  How would you describe Troy and his son's relationship?
2.  Do you support the way Troy feels about Cory playing football? Why or why not?
3. Compare and contrast Troy's character in the play and in the movie.
4. Do you agree with the statement the this play is "one big metaphor"? And explain what this means in your own words.

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level 1: where does the play take place?
level 2: why is the fence such an important symbol in the play?
level 3: Why do you think the author believes that Troy is characterized as a hero in this play?
level 4: Do you as an audience member agree that Troy should be characterized as a hero?

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1. What is meant by the phrase a baseball field can become a battlefield?
2. Why is it said that Troy preventing his son from playing football is based on racism? Do you believe that is true?
3. Why do you think baseball is such an important aspect of this play? Does baseball hold any meaning to you in your life?
4. Besides baseball holding a large meaning in this story, what could also be considered a perfect example for a theme in this story?

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1. What was Wilson's inspiration?
2. Does Wilson do a good job portraying the role of women in his story? Why do you think that?
3. If you had lived the life that Wilson lived, would you have the same perception as he did or would you change any major parts of the story?
4. Find and quote a sentence that represents Wilson's feminist perspective and explain the impact it has on the story line.

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level 1- Did Baraka's poems or plays impact Wilson more?
level 2- Should he be criticized for the portrayal of women in this play?
level 3- If his family was not interested in the blues and did not provide the feminist perspective how would his plays have been different?
level 4- August Wilson described the themes love, honor, duty, and betrayal of the plays as the "Big Themes". Find an example from the play "Fences" of one of these themes and explain the significance behind it.

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level 1- Is this interview more serious or laid back and why?
level 2- Compare and contrast the perspective of a black audience and a white audience.
level 3- Would this play be a good example of black representation in American Literature? Why or why not?
level 4- How would August Wilson respond to these questions if he didn't have any access to black literature while growing up? Would his literature have been different?

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level 1- Describe Troy's character development.
level 2- Compare and contrast the life of the maxson family to another family in literature.
level 3- If the lead actors of the play were different or looked different would the review have been the same?
level 4- Do you agree with the reviewers perspective that the men and fathers continue this cycle of violence and hatred?

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Missy Dehn Kubitschek August Wilson’s Gender Lesson

1. Level 1: Dehn Kubitschek states that “ Wilson’s cycle of plays takes its readers/viewers on an extended historical examination of gendered interactions in the black community”, describing what she means by this.

2. Level 2: Why does Dehn Kubitschek include the third paragraph on page 800 about men's and women's different spiritual gifts / social responsibilities? How does this play into and help us further understand Wilson’s Fences?

3. Level 3: If you and your father got into an argument about manhood and who ran the house how would you react? And why would that be different than how Cory reacted in Fences?

4. Level 4: What do you think about Dehn Kubitschek’s mention of a ‘patriarchal hegemony”? Do you think responses to this question differ upon gender differences or age differences more and why?

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level 1- What is the setting of the play?
level 2- How do the characters add to the play and to the tone?
level 3- If the reviewer saw the play in person how would this change his perspective?
level 4- How do you believe Troy's role in the story while pushing for black rights impacted the story line and the reviewers perspective that he was the hero?

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Frank Rich Family Ties in Wilson’s Fences: A Review

1. Level 1: Retell the first sentence of this review, “To hear his wife tell it, Troy Maxton, the middle-aged Pittsburg sanitation worker at the center of Fences, is “so big” that he fills up his tenement house just by walking through it.” in your own words.

2. Level 2: Compare and contrast Troy’s relationship with his son, Cory, to that of his wife, Rose.

3. Level 3: Does Troy in Fences remind you of any specific characters in a movie or show you’ve seen?

4. Level 4: Do you agree with Rich on page 793 when he discusses the “conflict disputes between first-generation American parents and their rebellious children.”

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Level 1 - How did Wilson discover each of the 4 B's and how did they play a role in his writing?
Level 2 - Why does Elam repeat the influence of blues on Wilson? How might that portray some of the other things regarding influences on Wilson?
Level 3 - What would have happened if Raynell didn't jump in to save Cory at the end of the play? Predict how significantly that would help Cory down the road if he ever had a son?
Level 4 - What aspect of each of the 4 B's played the biggest role in his writing? Do you think that things like that could play a role in changing how someone who is very racist towards African-Americans writing or even view?

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Clive Barnes Firey Fences: A Review

1. Level 1: The author, Barnes, mentions that the story is perfectly geared to its people, can you give a specific example of this?

2. Level 2: What does Barnes mean when he said Troy’s life is “Secure, but limited” on page 791?

3. Level 3: Barnes said on page 790 “Had Wilson been white, his plays would have been different – they would have had a different fire in a different belly”, what precisely would have been different if Wilson were white?

4. Level 4:  How do you think Troy’s push for black rights, driving a garbage truck versus collecting the trash, or his experience playing for Negro League baseball, affected him in how he acts toward his family?

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Level 1 - What aspects of Amiri Baraka's writing influenced August Wilson more: his plays or his poems? Why?
Level 2 - Why and how do you think the women in August Wilson's life impact the way he writes about women in his stories?
Level 3 - If August Wilson never had the family he did or wasn't interested in the blues, what do you predict would influence him the most then?
Level 4 - Do you agree with his idea on how to write about women in stories and how they should be pushing that line of boundaries?

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level 1: What were the 3 influences on August  Wilson's writing?
Level 2: Compare and contrast Wilson's writings and techniques to those of  Jorge Luis Borges.
level 3: Do you think Wilson's writing would be different without the influence of the Blues?
Level 4: What do you think about Wilson's use of repetition as Cory goes through similar issues that his father endured with his father? What is Wilson trying to show?

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1. When did Wilson’s first play come out?
2. Explain how gender roles were important in the play
3. Predict how Cory is going to parent his kids, do you think he will parent him the same way that Troy parented him?
4. Do you agree that the setting of the play influenced the gender roles? Explain.

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Level 1 - On page 811, it is stated that the baseball field could also become a battlefield. Describe ways that a baseball field could be a battlefield?
Level 2 - Compare and Contrast Troys field to everyone else's field. What ways are they similar? What ways are they different?
Level 3 - In Troys life, many things have gone wrong for him. What else might have caused him to have such a small field other than the racism he received?
Level 4 - Do you agree that baseball is still one of the last places that Americans can dream or are there others or none at all? Explain?

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Level 1: On page 809 Susan Koprince states that “The game of baseball has long been regarded as a metaphor for the American dream” (809) followed by examples of evidence as to why. In your own words, why do you think Baseball is referred to as the American dream, and describe how.

Level 2: What does it mean when Koprince says, “Troy’s efforts to prevent his son from playing football can be viewed as a form of “racial madness?” Find evidence from the text.

Level 3: Besides the examples Koprince uses, what else might have caused Wilson to use the metaphor of baseball in his play?

Level 4: Do you agree with the way Koprince explains baseball’s impact in August Wilson’s story “Fences” and how it influences the content? Explain why or why not.

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Level 1: On page 794 Wilson answers a question saying he does not believe this writing primarily affects social change. How would you respond to this question given someone is asking you how Wilson’s writing in “Fences" potentially could affect social change or spark thoughts of change in society?

Level 2: Analyze Wilson’s last interview question on page 798. What does it mean when Wilson said he believes the conflict is primarily internal?
Level 3: Who does August Wilson remind you of? Is there any text-to-self, text-to-text, or text to world connections you could make from gathering information given in the interview with August Wilson?

Level 4: On page 795 Wilson says he believes “The conflict in black America is between the middle class and the so-called underclass and that the conflict goes back to those who deny themselves and those who aren’t willing to.” Do you agree with Wilson’s perspective on this subject? Explain why or why not.

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level 1: “On page 790, Wilson’s writing of the play is described to portray “Greek Tragedy with a Yankee accent.” In your own words, how does “Fences” cover elements of Greek Tragedy?

level 2: Compare and contrast your ideas about who the hero of fences is to how the reviewer (for whom Troy is the hero) decides the hero.

level 3: The setting of “Fences” is in the late 50s. What would happen to the context and takeaways of the story if it was set in a different era?

level 4: On page 790 the review states “but calling Wilson a “black” playwright is irrelevant.” Do you agree with this statement? Explain why or why not.

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Level 1 - How is baseball important to the story?
Level 2 - Why does the author focus so heavily on the influence of baseball within the play?
Level 3 - If Troy hadn't played baseball, do you think he would've felt differently towards Corey playing football?
Level 4 - What do you think is the most important way baseball influences the play?

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Level 1 - What influenced Wilson the the 60s and 70s?
Level 2 - Why do you think that Wilson chose to write about the struggles of African Americans throughout the country?
Level 3 - Of all of the things that have influenced Wilson, how could things be different within the play if he hadn't been influenced by one of them?
Level 4 - Do you agree with the author's idea of the influence of music in the play?

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1. What was Wilson’s main influence?
2.  Why do you think that people criticized his feminine portrayal in his plays?
3. What would have happened if Wilson did not have the feminist family members that he had? Do you think his portrayal of Rose would have been different?
4. Do you agree with Wilson that the setting of a play does not matter as long as you use a big theme?

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Level 1 - Where does the play take place and how is it influential to the play?
Level 2 - What is the importance of the author naming the actors in the play, how could this have influenced the readers.
Level 3 - What could have changed the author's opinion of the play?
Level 4 - Do you agree with the author's ideas of the play? Explain.

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Level 1: Describe the conflicts between Troy and his son.
Level 2: Why does the author say Rose is such a good fit for Troy?
Level 3: What else might have influenced Troy's choice to take Cory out of Football?
Level 4: Do you agree with the authors description of Rose as "A quiet women" who "planted herself in the hard and rocky soil of her husband"? What do you agree with? What do you disagree with?

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Level 1- Do you believe that a single play or piece of writing can enact social change, or even simply introduce controversial ideas?
Level 2- How do you think Wilson expected people to interpret his work? Do you think he expected it to be as popular as it was?
Level 3 - What do you predict would be different if August Wilson was a prominent writer during the Civil Rights movement?
Level 4- Do you think August Wilson anticipated the immense social & racial impact Fences would have on society?

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Level 1: Where and when did fences take place?
Level 2: Why does the author think this story is so interesting to readers?
Level 3: If you could change one of Troy's decisions throughout the story, what would it be and how would it change the outcome?
Level 4: What do you think about Rose's decision to take care of Raynell despite it proving that Troy was sleeping with another women?

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Level 1- How did Troy's character description reflect how he was shown in the film?
Level 2- Compare and contrast your family dynamics to the family dynamics of the Maxson family, portrayed in the film. Are there any similarities?
Level 3- What would you predict would be different if Fences had taken place post-Civil Rights era?
Level 4- Do you agree that Act 2 was better than Act 1 of Fences? Why or why not?

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1. What was the name of the theater that Wilson and his friend Rob Penny co-founded?
2. Why do you think that blues influenced Wilson so much?
3. In the text, Wilson talks about the different influences he had in his life. What has influenced your life?
4. What do you think about Troy parenting Cory the same way that Troy’s dad parented him?

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Level 1- Explain how the setting of Fences affects the plot.
Level 2- Compare and contrast how Fences would have been written differently if August Wilson was part of a different racial identity.
Level 3- How does the fact that the author watched the play live affect his credibility and opinions on Fences as a whole?
Level 4- What do you think about the author's opinion on the casting choices in the play?

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Level 1- How do you believe gender roles played a role in segregation and how can you relate that to the play?

Level 2- Why are gender roles important in society and how does that translate into the play?

Level 3- Do you agree with Kubitschek when she says that “His intermittent recognition of his father’s inadequacy does not lead to any other conception of fatherhood” (pg. 801)?

Level 4- Consider Troy’s background, do you think that the way he acted towards women in the play is understandable?

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Level 1- Did the author's description of Troy in the first paragraph change your opinion on him? Why or why not?Level 2- Rich says that this play is one big metaphor. Do you agree or disagree with that statement? Level 3- Do you think Rich’s review would have been different if the lead actors of Troy and Rose were different? Why or why not. Level 4- Do you agree with Rich and what he says on page 792? “For blacks like Troy in the industrial North of Fences, social and economic equality is more a legal principle than a reality.”

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Level 1- Did the author's description of Troy in the first paragraph change your opinion on him? Why or why not?Level 2- Rich says that this play is one big metaphor. Do you agree or disagree with that statement? Level 3- Do you think Rich’s review would have been different if the lead actors of Troy and Rose were different? Why or why not. Level 4- Do you agree with Rich and what he says on page 792? “For blacks like Troy in the industrial North of Fences, social and economic equality is more a legal principle than a reality.”

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Level 1 - How did Fences affect Clive Barnes and his opinion on plays?Level 2 - Compare and Contrast how Barnes' explanation of Troy compared to the play’s explanation of Troy.Level 3 - What would you predict Barnes rated this play on a 1-10 scale and why? Level 4 - Do you agree with Barnes' stance that the play being a “black” playwright vs. a “white” playwright makes a difference in how the play would have turned out? Why?

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Level 1 - How did Fences affect Clive Barnes and his opinion on plays?Level 2 - Compare and Contrast how Barnes' explanation of Troy compared to the play’s explanation of Troy.Level 3 - What would you predict Barnes rated this play on a 1-10 scale and why? Level 4 - Do you agree with Barnes' stance that the play being a “black” playwright vs. a “white” playwright makes a difference in how the play would have turned out? Why?

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Level 1: Describe how Wilson defines plot.
Level 2: Why does Wilson believe that a great play exists completely on the page?
Level 3: What do you think Wilson's play would be about if he was writing about black culture during 2020?
Level 4: Do you agree with Wilson that drama is mostly about conflicts? Explain.

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Level 1: What is the baseball playing field compared to?
Level 2: Why does baseball in Troy’s life compare to football in Cory’s life? What is the significance of this difference between father and son?
Level 3: Would the meaning of Fences be the same if a sport other than baseball was the metaphor?
Level 4: Do you agree that baseball is a metaphor for the American dream? Explain.

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Level 1: Describe Mr. Jones's Troy.
Level 2: What is the deeper meaning when Troy makes Cory quit football?
Level 3: What do you think might have happened if Troy had gone to the Major Leagues?
Level 4: Do you think that all people struggle to escape the shadow of their parents?

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Level 1: List the contradictions Troy had of being a black, male in America.
Level 2: Why does Rose's character played by Mary Alice express strength while remaining a rather quiet figure?
Level 3: Would the author support this play if the actors were different?
Level 4: Do you agree when Rich compares the conflicts of Fences to that of conflicts between first-generation immigrant parents and their “rebellious” children? Explain

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Level 1 - How does the dialect in the play affect how the audience connects with it?
Level 2 - What are the roots of Troys internal conflicts? How do they affect the people around him?
Level 3 - What would happen if the majority of the conflicts within the play were external instead of internal?
Level 4 - Do you agree with how August Wilson perceives what drama is made of? How would you see it?

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Level 1 - Describe Troys family dynamic. Do you connect with it?
Level 2 - Compare and contrast the actors to how you perceived the characters just when reading their words through the play.
Level 3 - What would you predict would happen if Cory had seen the college recruiter?
Level 4 - A common idea that is discussed in today's society is the Cycle of Violence through men and their fathers. What do you think Cory will be like-- or do you think he will even be a father?

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Level 1 - Describe the setting of the play.
Level 2 - Throughout the story, the fact that all the people that surround Troy are black is prevalent. How would the play be different if there was someone of a different race?
Level 3 - What could Troy have done differently to hold his family together more? Or were the family conflicts not only because of Troy?
Level 4 - There were plenty of symbols that were shown throughout the play. What is the most important symbol you connect with?

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Level 1: Who is Mary Alice and what does she do in the play?
Level 2: Why does Troy use baseball for many analogies in the play?
Level 3: Do you think that watching the movie first would have impacted how we read the story?
Level 4: Do you think that Barnes' review would have been affected by a different person staging the play besides Lloyd Richards?

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Level 1: Who helped inspire Wilson in 1977?
Level 2: Why do you think that Wilson refracts the past actions of African Americans through the lens of the present?
Level 3: What impact did the blues have on him?
Level 4: What do you think about how Troy, following in the footsteps of his father, treated Cory?

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Level 1: Why do you think African Americans were not allowed to read and write?
Level 2: How does Wilson flesh out his plays so that his audience will see African Americans in a new light?
Level 3: Have you experienced or contributed to writing that has empowered you or someone you know?
Level 4: Why do you think it is important that readers understand that Wilson was writing from his own perspective of the black experience?

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Level 1: Who is Lloyd Richards and how does he help the play?
Level 2:  What was black America going through in the 1950's that it was referenced as being tormented just like Troy was?
Level: 3 Have you gone to a play and had it impact you in the way Fences impacted Barnes?
Level 4: Do you agree that Troy will be remembered as one of the greatest characters in American drama?

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Level 1: How does Troy define his manhood?
Level 2: Why does the author choose to display Cory in the military?
Level 3: What could Troy have done to avoid repeating his father's mistakes?
Level 4: What do you think about the ending of the play? What does the author symbolize with Gabriel and his trumpet?

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Level 1: Who was Mr. Douglas?
Level 2: Why does Wilson believe it is important to incorporate cultural relevance in his writing?
Level 3: What would you have done if you, like Wilson, had been invited to travel to Africa several times?
Level 4: Do you agree with Edward Albee and August Wilson that a play should be so well-written that the production cannot make it any better?

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Level 1: When did Fences take place?
Level 2: Why does the author use the fence as a symbol throughout the play?
Level 3: What would you have done in Rose's place hearing about Troy getting another woman pregnant?
Level 4: Do you agree with Troy's decision to leave Gabriel on his own, knowing his condition? Explain.

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Level 1: Who is James Earl Jones? What is his significance in this review?
Level 2: Why does the author say that Wilson’s black skin is “irrelevant” as to his identity as a playwright?
Level 3: How would the story be different if Wilson was white?
Level 4: Do you agree that Troy is the hero of the story? Why or why not?

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Level 1: Do you think reading a piece of writing can cause social change?
Level 2: Do you think that Wilson was trying to change peoples lives and point of view when writing this play?
Level 3: Wilson talks about how when he writes his plays he does not silence the characters and how he trusts them to just talk in order to make a great dialogue. Do you think this strategy worked well for him? Why or why not?
Level 4: August Wilson says "they see a garbage man, a person they really dont look at...find out that the content of this black garbagemans life is very similar to their own."  Do you think that we tend to look past people  of lowerclasses or forget to consider many peoples emotions, just because their different?

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Level 1: What act do you think was the best in the play?
Level 2: Do you think the actors played their parts well based off of the review?
Level 3: Do you agree that Wilson did a good job bringing African culture/ history into the play? Why or why not?
Level 4: Do you think it was easy or hard for the actors to capture the characters and history the way Wilson wanted them to be shown?

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Level 1: Do you agree with his point of view? Why or why not?
Level 2: Do you think that if Wilson was a different skin color like the review says; would the story be completely different? Why or why not?
Level 3: Do you think the review would be different if Barnes just read the play at home instead of watching it live?
Level 4: Fences is a metaphor for other things that the characters are going through in the story. From your perspective, what do you think the fence meant? How can you relate?

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1: August Wilson mentions that he wasn’t trying to bring up social change - but if not that, what exactly was it that he is trying to change?
2: Bonnie Lyons asks Wilson if he describes his work in a way of primary opposition between blacks who step away from their African parts, and those who embrace them. In Fences, what are some ways that show that the family had stepped away from some of their African roots? In what ways had they maybe embraced them?
3: When it comes down to the plots of August Wilson’s plays, and how he likes to have the play be more of the characters speaking to one another than action - how exactly does Wilson manage to make a plot out of something some people see as ‘plotless’? What about his way of writing these plays not only makes people relate to them, but also draws peoples’ attention in?

4: What do you think about Wilson’s idea that you don’t necessarily have to go to the place of your origins in order to embrace those origins? What importance does it have when people embrace those origins rather than not?

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Level 1: Why do you think Frank Rich not only mentioned the characters in the play, but the people who played them?
Level 2: Why does the author bring up the Wilson’s other play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom? What information does it give to this review?
Level 3: What difference do you think it would have made if the play was set in a different time other than the 1950s? Would the play have a different meaning?
Level 4: Based off of Frank Rich’s review, what do you think the most important piece was in how the play was executed?

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Level 1: According to Clive Barnes, how was August Wilson’s play so captivating?

Level 2: What do you believe Barnes meant when he said that if August had been white his plays, “(...) they would have had a different fire in a different belly?”
Level 3: Do you think that Barnes would have written this review if there had been other actors on stage?

Level 4: Do you think that Barnes would have written this review if there had been other actors on

stage?

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1) Do you think August Wilson's portrayal of gender roles in Fences was based on past ideals of gender roles ? Why or why not?
2) Do you think Cory's bitterness towards his father was due to his "hatred for power" or the harshness of his father's care?
3) Do you believe the fence could've been a metaphor not only for Troy, but for Rose and Cory dealing with not only the inequality of women's rights but also the societal standards when it comes to rights? Why or why not?
4) Do you agree or disagree with the author's account of this story pertaining to society?

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1) Does August Wilson believe he is writing for social change ? Why or why not?
2) If August Wilson primarily writes as an artist what would be the reasoning for the interviewer to ask many questions in the beginning of the interview involving race?
3) August Wilson says that he believes plays are made of sound and silence, what does this mean to you?
4) Do you think when August Wilson wrote "Fences" that he knew it would have such an impact on many different people?

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Level 1: Who does the author focus on when retelling the story of "Fences"?

Level 2: Why does the author believe that "Fences" is such a transfixing play?

Level 3: Despite Troy being a harsh figure on his family, what would lead the author to believe that Troy is characterized as the hero in this story?

Level 4: What are three different points that the author made in this review that you agree or disagree with? Why or why not?

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Level 1: Are you able to identify gender roles between father and son in Fences? How does this play a role in the play?
Level 2: Compare and contrast the metaphors used by Rose versus by Troy in the play. How does this add to the meaning of the story?
Level 3: Why do you think the baseball metaphors add meaning to the story? How do they deal with gender roles in Fences?
Level 4: Do you agree with the author’s claim that Troy’s perception of manhood is the ability of someone to economically support their family? Why or why not? Support your answer with evidence from the story or the review.

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Level 1: This review claims the second act is better than the first, do you agree? Does the reviewer have any biases?
Level 2: Did this reviewer look at the play through the same lenses we did as a class? How so? How is this review different or similar to Fiery Fences?
Level 3: If Troy was not a deadbeat how would this have changed the play?
Level 4: The author of this review used the shadow metaphor at the end of the review saying “theatergoers from all kinds of families may find him impossible to escape.” Do you agree with this take? If so, how has the character of Troy influenced you now?

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Level 1: Do you agree with this review? Why or why not?
Level 2: How does this review compare to or contrast your own personal experiences while reading the play? Do you think that this review could have changed if the actors were different?
Level 3: What makes the reviewer credible to talk about this play and why should we listen to his opinion?
Level 4: Do you think the author of this review thought deeply about the theme of Fences as we did? If not, how could this have changed their perspective?