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A Midsummer Night's Dream essay planning sheet

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A Midsummer Night's Dream essay planning sheet

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(This will be deja vu from LOTF, but you will soon learn that there are a few tricks to good essay writing. Once you learn them, the process becomes much easier)

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Self-assessment for group task to be filled in for Monday

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Self-assessment for group task to be filled in for Monday

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Remember:

* costumes should add meaning to character

* set should add meaning to situation and geographic and temporal settings. You can project the setting on the board and use tables and chairs creatively.

* no backs to the audience!

* speak clearly and loudly. Try to remember your lines.

* use the stage space well. Don't all stay in one corner.

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Kids Explain Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" | GRSF - YouTube

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Kids Explain Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" | GRSF - YouTube

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Kids Explain Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" | GRSF

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Please select your scene by commenting on the doc or email me your preferences if it doesn't work. First in, best dressed! You will need to open it in "view original"

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Organising groups for performance assignment

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Due Wednesday, 25th of August

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Due Thursday, 3rd of September

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1. Why does Theseus dismiss the young lovers’ stories?

2. How is the happy mood of the weddings emphasised?

3. Why does Theseus choose Pyramus and Thisbe?

4. What does hard-handed men mean?

5. Why does Philostrate criticise the play?

6. What do lovers, madmen and poets have in common?

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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 5, Scene 1

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Questions for Act 4 scene 2 (due Monday)

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Questions for Act 4 scene 2 (due Monday)

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1. Identify the devices (e.g. oxymoron, dramatic irony) that Shakespeare uses to create humour in this scene.

2. Think of a ridiculous metaphor, simile or analogy.

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42 really bad analogies, similes, and metaphors |

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42 really bad analogies, similes, and metaphors |

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1. Draw the love triangles as they are at the end of this scene.

2. Why do you think Bottom's Dream speech has received critical acclaim in literature?

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A Midsummer Night's Dream -- The Mechanicals - YouTube

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A Midsummer Night's Dream -- The Mechanicals - YouTube

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A Midsummer Night's Dream -- The Mechanicals

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The cast of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," perform in "Pyramus & Thisbe." Directed by Jim Lupercio, the show was featured in March, and is part of KIDS-N-CO.'s 25th Anniversary Season. KIDS-N-CO. is El Paso's only non-profit community theater (with an emphasis on education) for families and young people in the El Paso area.

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Food for thought for the fairies' behaviour

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Food for thought for the fairies' behaviour

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62 Insults (from Shakespeare) reginaldunterseher.com - YouTube

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62 Insults (from Shakespeare) reginaldunterseher.com - YouTube

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62 Insults (from Shakespeare) music by Reginald Unterseher words by Sheila Dunlop and Reginald Unterseher sung by the Enterprise Treble Choir, JoLyn Glenn, director, and the McLoughlin Treble Choir, Kurtis McFadden, director Kerry Harris, piano

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End of Act 3 Scene 2 questions (for  class on Monday, the 10th of August)

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End of Act 3 Scene 2 questions (for  class on Monday, the 10th of August)

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1. What does Oberon mean when he says Puck "committ'st thy knaveries willfully"?

2. What positive qualities does Oberon show in the end of the scene (from line 345, after Puck has given Demetrius the love potion)?

3. Oberon describes the black fog in great detail; why is this?

4. Do you think Puck enjoys insulting the Athenians? Find evidence of this.

5. Puck's final speech in A3S2 sounds like a nursery rhyme, do you think Shakespeare intended for this? Explain.

If you finish early, find quotes and plot points relating to love in the play.

What message do you think Shakespeare is making on love? Do you agree with him? (explain)

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1. How does Oberon react to the news about Titania?

2. What does Puck mean when he says "senseless things will begin to do them wrong" in line 28?

3. Puck notes that "two will at once woo one" in line 118. What does he mean by this and what is his attitude to this situation?

4. In a table compare Demetrius' language at the beginning of the play with that at the end. Use metalanguage to describe the literary devices where possible.

5. What poetic devices do Lysander and Demetrius use to insult Hermia? What is the effect of these?

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Flight of the Conchords - I'd Climb the Highest Mountain - YouTube

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Flight of the Conchords - I'd Climb the Highest Mountain - YouTube

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I sense a bit of hyperbole

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Flight of the Conchords - I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

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Find key quotes about 'Love’s difficulty', 'magic', 'foolishness' and 'dreams.

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1. How does Shakespeare show the actors are scared of Bottom?

2. How do the actors seem to regard Bottom in general?

3. How would you describe Titania's use of language in this scene?

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Helena : In Greek myths Helen was the daughter of Zeus and Leda and she was considered as the most beautiful girl in the world.

Hermia: is named after the Greek god Hermes who is also son of Zeus. Hermes is the messenger and traveler god.

Demetrius : is named after the god of harvest and seasons Demeter, sister of Zeus.

Lysander: was a Spartan admiral who commanded the Spartan fleet in the Hellespont which defeated the Athenians at Aegospotami in 405 BC.

Hamza

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Alanis Morissette - Ironic (Video) - YouTube

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Alanis Morissette - Ironic (Video) - YouTube

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Alanis Morissette - Ironic (Official 4K Music Video)

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Suppository gaffe makes Tony Abbott the butt of the world's jokes | Australia news | The Guardian

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Suppository gaffe makes Tony Abbott the butt of the world's jokes | Australia news | The Guardian

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There have been numerous moments of late when the day-to-day workings of Australian politics filter on to the world's news agenda; think Julia Gillard's misogyny speech; the leadership spill that never was; and then the spill that was. But never has the opposition leader Tony Abbott been the protagonist. That was until Monday.

There have been numerous moments of late when the day-to-day workings of Australian politics filter on to the world's news agenda; think Julia Gillard's misogyny speech; the leadership spill that never was; and then the spill that was. But never has the opposition leader Tony Abbott been the protagonist. That was until Monday.

As Abbott stood among the Liberal party faithful in Melbourne, glancing from side to side and surveying those loyally assembled, he let rip with a malapropism to rival even those of the infamously tongue-tied former US president George W Bush. "No one," said Abbott, "however smart, however well-educated, however experienced ... is the suppository of all wisdom."

It was meant as a humble, man-of-the-people moment from the Rhodes scholar, who was making a dig at the prime minister, Kevin Rudd. Instead he became a global figure of ridicule.

He "hit a bum note" in the words of Britain's Independent; it was a "memorable slip of the tongue", according to CNN (which also felt the need to dictionary define suppository); NPR sympathised - the US radio network has had to post countless "correctums" over the years.

Billy Bragg, the beloved British songwriter who spent his heyday constructing lyrical anti-Thatcher songs, couldn't resist the crude opportunity, either. "Sounds like Tony Abbott's been talking out of his arse again," he tweeted.

And so it was that Abbott's first real moment on the global news stage was probably not what the carefully media-managed politician would have wanted.

Come the election on 7 September he'll be hoping for more positive headlines. Until then, he might have to clench hard and enjoy the ride.
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Suppository gaffe makes Tony Abbott the butt of the world's jokes

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There have been numerous moments of late when the day-to-day workings of Australian politics filter on to the world's news agenda; think Julia Gillard's misogyny speech; the leadership spill that never was; and then the spill that was. But never has the opposition leader Tony Abbott been the protagonist.

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1. Draw the love triangle as it looks at the end of this scene.

2. How does Lysander's language change after he takes the love potion?

3. How does Helena react to Lysander's words?

4. How does Hermia feel when she wakes up? What evidence of this is in the language she uses?

Bonus question: find the stories behind each of the characters' names

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In on a secret? That's dramatic irony - Christopher Warner - YouTube

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In on a secret? That's dramatic irony - Christopher Warner - YouTube

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In on a secret? That's dramatic irony - Christopher Warner

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Le Voyage Dans la Lun (A Trip to the Moon) by Georges Méliès (1902) - YouTube

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Le Voyage Dans la Lun (A Trip to the Moon) by Georges Méliès (1902) - YouTube

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Le Voyage Dans la Lun (A Trip to the Moon) by Georges Méliès (1902)

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Act 1 summary homework for Monday (27/7)

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Act 1 summary homework for Monday (27/7)

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1.  draw the love triangle

2.  cast the play with well known actors, characters or celebrities – explain your choices.

3.  Tweet a summary of each scene hashtagging the themes (or key ideas)

4.  Find key quotes about 'Love’s difficulty', 'magic', 'foolishness' and 'dreams.

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No Fear Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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No Fear Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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No Fear Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Act 1 Scene 1

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No Fear Shakespeare by SparkNotes features the complete edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream side-by-side with an accessible, plain English translation.

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Puck Through The Ages: The History of a Hobgoblin

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Puck Through The Ages: The History of a Hobgoblin

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Puck Through The Ages: The History of a Hobgoblin

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A brief history of Puck aka Robin Goodfellow - the story through history including modern-day versions

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Everything you need to know about the writing style of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, written by experts with you in mind.

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Define and find examples for these rhetorical devices

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Define and find examples for these rhetorical devices

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Copy of Figurative language and rhetorical devices

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Courtly language vs. young lovers' language vs. Mechanicals' language

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Courtly language vs. young lovers' language vs. Mechanicals' language

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differences in courtly and young lovers' language

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Opening Monologue - YouTube

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Opening Monologue - YouTube

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Opening Monologue

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Do we think Hippolyta wanted to marry Theseus? Why/why not?

Why would Egeus think Lysander bewitched Hermia? What does he accuse him of?
Why does Egeus want her to marry Demetrius?
What reasons does Lysander say he should marry Hermia? And why not Demetrius?
How would you describe Theseus based on this scene?

What pattern is there in the way that the characters speak?

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1.  When and where was William Shakespeare born?

2.  What is known about Shakespeare's private life?

3.  In what year did Shakespeare build his own theatre? Who did he build it with and what was it called?

4.  How many plays did Shakespeare write?

5.  Why were Shakespeare's plays not widely read at the time they were written?

6.  When was the first theatre constructed in London? What was it called?

7.  What caused the closure of playhouses during Shakespeare's time?

8.  What did it cost to see a Shakespeare play?

9.  Why did boys perform the role of female characters in Shakespeare's plays?

10.  How were the performers of Shakespeare's plays costumed?

11.  What was the connection between William Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth?

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Horrible Histories Historical Mastermind Shakespeare flaunts words

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