Pre-Act Quickwrites

We spent the past 3 class periods reading the play 12 Angry Men.  There are several responses you should have in your notebook; please make sure you have the following:

CONVINCE
Think about a time when you had to convince someone to see your point of view.  List the reasons you gave that they should consider changing their view and the facts that you presented to support your view.

SETTING
The setting is the environment in which characters live, so the setting can have an effect on the way characters behave.  Re-read the beginning of the play where the jury room is described, up to when the guard locks the door.
1. What does the jury room look like?  How could the appearance of the room have an effect on the    
     jurors?
2. Why is heat an important detail?
3. Why did the playwright choose to include the sound of the door locking?

ACT II
The protagonist in this play takes a stand against eleven others.  Write about the obstacles he faces and the opposition he feels from other characters.

STOP AND JOTS
1. Why is Juror #3 so bitter?  (p.5, left)
2. What is being implied about Juror #9?  (p.9, left)
3. What is Juror #3's blunder?  (p.10, right and left)
4. What did we just learn from this scene?  (p.12, left)
5. What just happened in this scene and why did it happen?  (p.14 and 15, right and left)
6. In the last scene of the play, what is the wordless message between Jurors #3 and #8?  In other      
    words, instead of their actions, if they could have spoken to each other, what would they have
    said?