As Grant's capture and siege of Vicksburg during the Civil War serves as another dramatic metaphor in the play, I sketched on the board the highlights of Grant's siege and reviewed the definition of siege and metaphor . I wrote out today's metaphor as : Grant=Annie Sullivan/ Helen= Vicksburg. As such, the characters' allusions to this battle has thematic significance. We then continued reading aloud the remainder of Act I. After we concluded our reading, I distributed a "Who Am I?" exercise I prepared that required Lena to select from a word bank the described characters from the play . Lena ,with very little assistance ,did very well with the exercise.