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With your pre-reading observations and the information from the first reading, your task here is to determine what happens to whom by breaking the text down into parts and putting the parts back together in a way that makes sense to you. You create this thematic structure through a thorough exploration of the text's surface structure, or syntax.
El viejo celoso (263.0K)
Task 1. Review Stage Directions. Skim through the text and re-read all of the stage directions in order to reactivate your understanding of the basic unspoken action and interaction of the actors. Make sure you understand the stage directions.
Task 2. Transfer and Paraphrase.
Task 3. Decode Verbs.
Task 4. Identify and Decode Pronouns.
Task 5. Decode Sentences.
Task 1. Complete Word Wheels.
Task 2. Compare and Contrast.
Study Hint: Dramatic Representation
Task 1. Identify Topic Sentence.
Task 2. Delete Information. Skim your working copy, segment by segment, and draw a line through redundant information or information that is not central to the action of the play.
Task 3. Generalize.
Task 4. Summarize.
Task 1. Identify Thematic Elements.
Task 2. Complete Thematic Structure.
NOTE: Upon completing the four stages, you have fulfilled your responsibility as the reader of the play. You know who did what to whom, why, and when. You can talk about the communicative code and the roles of the dramatist, the performer, the dialogue, the scene and stage directions, and the spectator. At this point you are ready to go to class and enter into a well-informed discussion of the play.