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.