Write a compare or contrast essay on The Piano Lesson and Fences.
Directions:
Write about 750 words and you must use at least two critical sources. Make sure to use exact support from the dramas. Write a well-developed, coherent, detailed essay using correct grammar, spelling and punctuation. Make sure to use details (support) from the plays. 
Make sure to write a thesis statement.
Example: Both Fences and The Piano Lesson usee symbols (get critic who says this). Then write about what the symbols are and why. Make sure NOT to write a summary. 
This is in the learning modules to help with Fences:
Keys to August Wilson’s Fences
Setting is in 1957 Pittsburgh
Drama published in 1986
The title of the play is symbolic – Fences
Look for baseball metaphors – for example, Troy says “You have to take the crookeds with the straights” – meaning LIFE throws us some curveballs
Death is personified – look for examples in the drama
This is a kitchen sink play – most of the action takes place inside the house or nearby it – front and backyard
Look for GENDER and RACE issues in the drama
Think about the music and lighting in the play
The idea here is to think about how the play makes use of the genre of drama.