Continue reading The Importance of Being Earnest in class.

Discuss characterization and settings–how does the setting shift from city to country? What occurs to the characters, especially Jack and Algernon, when they change settings?

Remember to record your favorite lines (5 from each act for a total of 15 lines) on:

• The nature of marriage
• The constraints of morality
• The quest for truth and beauty
• Hypocrisy

Type each quote and organize the quotes based on Act 1, Act 2, and Act 3, and add a sentence of why you chose that quote:

• What appealed to you about it?
• Did you find it accurate? How?
• Funny? Why?
• Insightful? In what way?

HOMEWORK: Complete your essay on a major theme in “Do not go gentle into that good night” and share it with me before midnight tonight!

QUIZ on the next 15 Lit terms will be on TUESDAY next week.