Friday

Big Ideas: Who or what is in control?

Reading: We will read for 10 minutes.

Agenda:

1. Lecture on Plato's view of the human person to get us ready for reading MSND.
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3. Play map
4. 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 lak of tension between Quince and Bottom?
6. Why might they be sowquiet 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?
4. What words do you not understand?
1. For our final read through, we will stage the scene.
1. Where does the scene take place?
2. Entrances and exits: Who should come onstage from where? With whom? Why? Does the text give you a clue?
3. Who's the most important person in the scene? Who thinks he's the most important person in the scene? How do you act it out to show this?
4. How should each character act?
2. The same cast will act out this scene again. What worked? What didn't?
5. Watch a stage version of the same scene (16:31). What did you like?
6. Write a summary of Act I scene 2 in your English Journal.

Success Criteria:

1. I can explain Plato's view of the human person and Cupid's role in mythology.
2. I know what is going on the in the scene from the play we read today.

Homework:

1. Finish SAT letter F.
2. Your next book review is on January 30th.