1. Bell Ringer: What is your LOVE LANGUAGE?
Take the Love Languages Quiz
Option 1 – Use your phone and go to the following link:
Option 2 – Take the paper quiz (in a page protector on your desk) and add up your points to see your score.
5 Love Languages:
Words of Affirmation
Gifts
Acts of Service
Quality Time
Physical Touch
Take the quiz.
Look at the article “Connecting Using the Five Love Languages” to interpret your results

2. The 5 Love Languages: Words of Affirmation Gifts Acts of Service
Quality Time
Physical Touch

4. Today you will be analyzing characters using the 5 languages of love.
The 5 Love Languages
Today you will be analyzing characters using the 5 languages of love.

5. LEARNING TARGET
I will. . . So that I can. . . I will be successful when. . .
Identify telling statements in the dialogue
Analyze the strengths and weaknesses in their interaction
I use textual evidence to analyze how well the characters interact with each other based on the Love Language strategies.

7. Fences Background Information
The descendants of African slaves came strong, eager, searching. When the cities rejected them and they fled and settled along riverbanks and under bridges in shallow, ramshackle houses made of sticks and tar-paper. They collected rags and wood. They sold the use of their muscles and their bodies. They cleaned houses and washed clothes, they shined shoes, and in quiet desperation and vengeful pride, they stole, and lived in pursuit of their own dream: to breathe free, finally, and stand to meet life with the force of dignity. . .By 1957, war had been confronted and won with new energies that used loyalty and patriotism as its fuel. Life was rich, full, and flourishing. The Milwaukee Braves won the World Series, and the hot winds of change that would make the sixties turbulent, racing, dangerous, and provocative had not yet begun to blow full.

8. Fences Background Information
SYNOPSIS: In the play leading up to this scene, Troy (dad) had forced Cory (son) to quit the football team in order to continue to work at the local grocery store (A&P). Cory was upset because college scouts were coming to the game and he had aspirations to get drafted to a college team. Troy believed that his son had a good chance of getting promoted by his boss (Mr. Stawicki) if he kept doing a good job at the grocery store. If he got a promotion and a raise, Cory would have a much better life (according to Troy) than Troy was ever able to have. The scene below takes place in the back yard after Troy convinced Cory to get his job back at the A&P:

9. Fences Character Descriptions
TROY (53) is a large man with thick, heavy hands. Together with his blackness, his largeness informs his sensibilities and the choices he has made in his life. He is admired for his honesty, capacity for hard work, and his strength.
Fences Character Descriptions
CORY (16) is Troy’s youngest son, the only one he was around to have a hand in raising. He is a star player on his high school football team with aspirations for one day being drafted for college ball.

10. Fences Reading and Marking the Text
Before you read, pick which character you want to represent – ROSE speaks for CORY; TROY speaks for himself all along. . .
Troy (father) Corey (son)
Each partner will focus on a DIFFERENT character.

11. Fences Reading and Marking the Text
Troy (father)
Mark examples of what Troy SAYS that show Troy’s love language.
Corey (son) & Rose (mother)
Mark examples of what Corey SAYS (and Rose says) that show Corey’s love language.

12. Fences Analyzing Character
Combine your notes to complete the character analysis together.

13. Fences in ACTION:

14. Final Reflection
What experience does this remind you of in your own life?
In your reflection, did you behave more like Troy or Cory in that situation? Explain.
Knowing what you know about these love languages, what could you have done differently for a better outcome?