PPT-Death of a Salesman Revision notes: key themes and characterisation

note These notes will give you an overview of the key moments in the play They are not exhaustive and you will have to plan your essays carefully and may want to refer back to the play to find a different example or quotation. 9/2. Agenda. Discussing the end of Act II and Requiem for . Death of . a Salesman . Reviewing unit 2 vocabulary-test Friday!. Last 15-20 minutes to work on Final . Death of a Salesman. project. Act II . What does she have to do with revision?. Learning. . information so that you can use it to answer questions. .  . Learning means . that you have to . understand something completely. , . remember. it and eventually . Effective revision strategies. Revision tips : planning your time. Creating a revision timetable.  . MARCH . 2015. APRIL . 2015. MAY . 2015. Sat.  . 31. Sun. 1.  .  . Mon. 2.  .  . Tues. 3.  . Arthur Miller. Born in NYC, Jewish. Attended schools in Harlem, Brooklyn. Family devastated by Great Depression. Graduates University of Michigan. Turns down Hollywood (big$) job to stay in NYC: loves live theater. Symbolism. Look at the section involving . The Woman. . The stockings that are mentioned are an important symbol in . Death of a Salesman. . Explain their significance and what they represent.. We are given few details about the life of . A Study of Themes Across Literature and Media. Elizabeth . Kapfer. OVERVIEW. Grade 9 College Prep Class. 3, 90 minute classes. 25 students: . 2 students with anxiety, 3 students with ADD/ . AD/HD. The students . The Friary School. Y11 . - Summer . 2017. So this is it…. The last weeks before the exams that decide the next stage of your life…. And the good news is that there is lots of time to do well. Providing you make the most of your revision time throughout the exam period…. Ideas and techniques to help support your child to achieve their potential.. PREPARING FOR EXTERNAL EXAMINATIONS 2017. Examination Advice. Your child will need to:. Check their . timetable. . Exams . Beatrice Garland. Quick context. Kamikaze pilots were Japanese volunteers who offered to give their lives to destroy the enemy (in short a WW2 suicide bomber). . Soldier’s / Kamikaze Pilot’s oath. 1915-2005. Background Info. Born in NYC. First success in 1947—. All My Sons. Wrote. Death of a Salesman. —1948. Married with two children at the time. Background Info. 1950—. F. ell in love with Marilyn Monroe (eventually married and then divorced). 1949. Death of a Salesman. Arthur Miller. 1949. Objectives. Be able to identify specific literary techniques used to characterize Willy . Discuss symbols found throughout the second half of the play. Lohman’s. monologue from Act II. Willy . Loman. Juicy Sentence. Willy (talking about Dave . Singleman. ): . When he died—and by the way he died the death of a salesman, in his green velvet slippers in the smoker of the New York, New Haven and Hartford, going into Boston—when he died, hundreds of salesmen and buyers were at his funeral.. Aim. Understand the historical context of the play ‘Death of a Salesman.’. Find out as much as you can about the following:. Arthur Miller (playwright). ‘Death of a Salesman’ and his other works. Death of a Salesman. Death of a Salesman . by Arthur Miller was first performed in 1949 on Broadway and was an. . immediate success. This deceptively simple story of the tragic road to suicide of a travelling.