Curriculum Guide to the plays Trip to Bountiful by Horton Foote and Wit by Margaret Edson. This unit is designed to assist students with understanding literary and dramatic terms, with investigating setting, characters, metaphor, central allegory, and motivations. Students analyze the work by making predictions and role-playing. They conduct research in order to sharpen their use of research tools and citation methods. Students are guided in the prewriting, outlining, and drafting of the following types of writing: essay, biography, play, poetry, speech, and essay-response.