Puck and Oberon

 Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

After today I should be able to: 

Reading: You are currently reading a book of your choice. It should be done by the second week of December.

Agenda:

1. If you ever get confused, you can check out the play map.
2. Watch the play to see the transformation of Bottom. (55:36-
3. Read 3.2.1-121
4. Pick out lines which illustrate these points in the argument between Demetrius and Hermia, and write them down:
1. she thinks Demetrius has killed Lysander 
2. she cannot believe Lysander would leave her 
3. she calls Demetrius a coward 
4. Demetrius loves her and he hates Lysander 
5. Demetrius has not killed Lysander.
5. Who believes in "true love," Puck or Oberon?
1. Cite the lines that help you know.
2. What is "Puck's Law" about human love?
6. Add to our Notice and Note posters
7. Choose songs about love and copy and paste the lyrics onto a Google Doc.

Homework:

1. Membean. It is due by Sunday at 9PM.

Analyzing 2.2 Performance

 Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

After today I should be able to: 

Reading: You are currently reading a book of your choice. It should be done by the second week of December.

Agenda:

1. If you ever get confused, you can check out the play map.
2. Watch the play and fill out the performance document.
3. Read 3.1.64-180

Homework:

1. Membean. It is due by Sunday at 9PM.

Subtext

 Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

After today I should be able to: 

Reading: You are currently reading a book of your choice. It should be done by the second week of December.

Agenda:

1. If you ever get confused, you can check out the play map.
2. Subtext lesson
3. The magic spells. Each group will come up and perform one magic spell with labeled subtext.
1. Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid’s archery, Sink in apple of his eye. When his love he doth espy, Let her shine as gloriously As the Venus of the sky. When thou wak’st, if she be by, Beg of her for remedy. 3.2.103
2. What thou seest when thou dost wake, Do it for thy true-love take; Love and languish for his sake. Be it ounce, or cat, or bear, Pard, or boar with bristled hair, In thy eye that shall appear When thou wak’st, it is thy dear. Wake when some vile thing is near. 2.2.31
3. On the ground, Sleep sound: I’ll apply To your eye, Gentle lover, remedy. When thou wak’st, Thou tak’st True delight In the sight Of thy former lady’s eye: And the country proverb known, That every man should take his own, In your waking shall be shown: Jack shall have Jill; Naught shall go ill; The man shall have his mare again, And all shall be well. 3.2.448
4. Churl, upon thy eyes I throw All the power this charm doth owe. When thou wak’st, let love forbid Sleep his seat on thy eyelid: So awake when I am gone, For I must now to Oberon. 2.2.82
4. Read 2.2.88-160

Homework:

1. Membean. It is due by Sunday at 9PM.

Shakespearean Language

 Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

After today I should be able to: 

Reading: You are currently reading a book of your choice. It should be done by the second week of December.

Agenda:

1. If you ever get confused, you can check out the play map.
2. Shakespeare's meter (or the beats)
3. Shakespeare's unusual language
4. Read 2.2.1-87
1. Read using our normal pattern.
2. Write a summary on each page
5. Write a short script that uses Shakespeare's unusual language and one line that has meter.
1. Your script should have friends meeting at a place of your choice to study for an upcoming test.
2. Or you can come up with a better idea.

Homework:

1. Membean. It is due by Sunday at 9PM.

Class Discussion

 Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

After today I should be able to: 

Reading: You are currently reading a book of your choice. It should be done by the second week of December.

Agenda:

1. If you ever get confused, you can check out the play map.
2. Fill out perspectives on love chart
3. Class discussion about the play

Homework:

1. Membean. It is due by Sunday at 9PM.

Notice and Note Posters

 Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

After today I should be able to: 

Reading: You are currently reading a book of your choice. It should be done by the second week of December.

Agenda:

1. If you ever get confused, you can check out the play map.
2. Finish the "Fairy Kingdom Gazette" assignment in Google Classroom. We will share them with the class today.
3. Notice and Note posters

Homework:

1. Membean. It is due by Sunday at 9PM.

Not for thy fairy kingdom

 Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

After today I should be able to: 

Reading: You are currently reading a book of your choice. It should be done by the second week of December.

Agenda:

1. If you ever get confused, you can check out the play map.
2. Watch the play from 25:30 to 41:33 to the words "he shall seek thy love"
1. Click here to watch the play.
2. While watching the play fill out the "Performance Analysis" document.
3. You will complete the "English Journal" part of the document tomorrow.
3. Work on the "Fairy Kingdom Gazette" assignment in Google Classroom.

Homework:

1. Membean. It is due by Sunday at 9PM.

Perspectives on Love

 Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

After today I should be able to: 

Reading: You are currently reading a book of your choice. It should be done by the second week of December.

Agenda:

1. If you ever get confused, you can check out the play map.
2. With your acting group
1. Read 2.1.146-265. Each person should read to a period, question mark, exclamation point or semi-colon.
2. Write a one-sentence summary for each page.
3. Complete the following English Journal:
1. Explain the trick Oberon is going to play on Titania
2. Explain the complex relationship between Demetrius and Helena
3. Explain why Oberon has sympathy on Helena.
4. Fill out the Perspectives on Love chart for Helena and Egeus.
5. In the last 15 minutes of class, watch the first part of Act II
1. Click here for the video.

Homework:

1. Membean. It is due by Sunday at 9PM.

The Four Loves

 Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

After today I should be able to: 

Reading: You are currently reading a book of your choice. It should be done by the second week of December.

Agenda:

1. If you ever get confused, you can check out the play map.
2. With your acting group
1. Read 2.1.1-145. Each person should read to a period, question mark, exclamation point or semi-colon.
2. Write a one-sentence summary for each page.
3. Complete the following desk work:
1. Make a list of tricks that Puck plays on people. Click on this sentence to get a paraphrase that will help you understand the conversation between Puck and the fairy.
3. Individually, take notes on the lecture below. On Google Classroom, turn in a picture of your notes.
1. Renaissance scholar, C.S. Lewis, on the four types of love.
2. Which of these types do you see in the play?

Homework:

1. Membean. It is due by Sunday at 9PM.

What is Love?

 Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

After today I should be able to: 

Reading: You are currently reading a book of your choice. It should be done by the second week of December.

Agenda:

1. If you ever get confused, you can check out the play map.
2. Notice and Note. Find an example of each type of Signpost.
3. Come up with a line by line paraphrase of Helena's speech 1.1.226-243. Write directly on the script.
4. MSND Lecture: The Four Types of Love
5. Fill out the MSND love chart.

Homework:

1. Membean. It is due by Sunday at 9PM.

Crossed Lovers

 Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

After today I should be able to: 

Reading: You are currently reading a book of your choice. It should be done by the second week of December.

Agenda:

1. Watch the scene from yesterday.
2. Crossed Lovers
1. All guys will read Lysander's lines and all the girls will read Hermia's lines, 1.1.130-142. Our Hermia and Lysander will read 1.1.158-181. What are they saying to each other?
3. Establishing acting companies
1. Like the rude mechanicals, each of you will be in an acting group.
1. You need a name
2. A regular place to practice
3. A rotation order for directors
4. Acting companies at work
1. You will follow this procedure for reading a new scene
1. round-robin reading to a period, semicolon, colon, or question mark
2. circling words you don't know and agreeing on a definition
3. paraphrasing hard-to-understand phrases into modern English
4. making sense of the scene
2. Try this procedure with 1.1.180-250. This should take around 20 minutes.
5. Notice and Note
1. We will add to our Notice and Note page from yesterday.
2. One idea that will come up again and again is love. Always note when this idea comes up and what the characters are presenting about this idea.
6. MSND lecture

Homework:

1. Membean. It is due by Sunday at 9PM.

The Problem

 Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

After today I should be able to: 

Reading: You are currently reading a book of your choice. It should be done by the second week of December.

Agenda:

1. Script in your hand.
1. How do we find our place in a Shakespeare text?
2. Act.scene.line = 1.1.25
2. Read around, 1.1.20-127
1. Go around the circle. Each person will read until they reach a period or semicolon.
2. What is Hermia's problem?
3. Egeus' request?
4. The duke's solution?
5. How does the language in this section compare to the scene from yesterday?
6. prose vs. verse
3. Add to your earlier summary. What is happening at the beginning of the play?
4. Review the Signposts. What signposts do you see in the first act of MSND?
5. Watch the stage performance of this conversation. What do you notice?
6. If there is time, we will play a Quizlet Live! game to help us get to know the characters.

Homework:

1. Membean. It is due by Sunday at 9PM.

Tossing Lines

 Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

After today I should be able to: 

Reading: You are currently reading a book of your choice. It should be done by the second week of December.

Agenda:

1. Play map. In your English Journal, write a summary of the plot of MSND. Make sure you include information from the two settings of the play.
2. Actor's circle
1. Read a scene from the play We will read through this scene one more time with 10 new actors.
2. Bottom (3), Quince (3), Flute, Starveling, Snout, and Snug.
3. Questions:
1. Who wrote this play they are going to do?
2. If Quince wrote it, has he written it all himself?
3. Has he adapted some of it?
4. Is it an original story?
5. What do Snug, Snout, Starveling, and Flute think of the play? What do they think of the tension or lack of tension between Quince and Bottom?
6. Why might they be so quiet during the scene?
7. What are they doing during the scene? Do they want to be in the play?
8. What about their characters?
9. Is Bottom a bully? A loudmouth? An egomaniac? A good actor who wants to help? A leader?
10. Is Snug stupid? Nervous? Slow? A new member of the group? Extremely shy?
11. Is there any poetry in the scene? Is it good or bad poetry?
3. We will watch the scene we have been acting out. This is a performance at the Globe Theater in London.
1. Watch 16:36 to 25:38
4. If there is time, we will play a Quizlet Live! game to help us get to know the characters.
5. Tossing Lines 
1. Give each student a line from the play.
2. Do you have a word you can not pronounce or you do not know?
3. Toss the object around the group. When it is thrown to you, you will say your line.
4. Keep going until everyone has said their line two times or more.
5. Everyone will write down as many lines as they can remember.
6. Repeat the previous steps with group 2.

Homework:

1. Membean. It is due by Sunday at 9PM.

Introducing the Play

 Big Idea: What does it mean to be human?

After today I should be able to: 

Reading: You are currently reading a book of your choice. It should be done by the second week of December.

Agenda:

1. Look at this map of the plot of the play.
2. Actor's Circle
1. Today we will start by reading a scene from the play. We will read it through twice.
2. Bottom (3), Quince (3), Flute, Starveling, Snout, and Snug.
3. Questions:
1. Who are these guys?
2. How do you know?
3. What is going on here? What are these guys up to? How do you know?
4. Do these guys know each other?
5. Who is the boss of the group? How do you know? Who would like to be the boss of this group? How do you know?
6. Why are they putting on the play?
4. Now we will read through the scene again. Look for new information. What did you notice that you didn't understand before? What is still confusing?

Homework:

1. Membean. It is due by Sunday at 9PM.