I expect that you spend at least 2 hours outside of class - each week [not including homework activities] to keep up with the work we are doing in class.
You should read the scene or passage we have covered in class. You should read it slowly and carefully going over it again and again until you have a good understanding of what is being said in the scene, what each character is saying and the underpinning attitudes, assumptions and motivations that inform each character. You should identify key quotations, significant language features and recurring themes or topics. I expect that you will take note of specific dramatic conventions - especially setting, dramatic irony, dialogue, soliloquies, contrasts, and stage directions etc.
I expect that you will have read the scene we will be doing before you come into the next lesson. You should come to the lesson with an idea of what happens in the next scene. Make notes and underline what you think is important.
