A Midsummer Night's Dream Lesson Plan

Set and Costume Vision Boards

Kind of Activity:

Artistic Response

Objective:

Students will be able to engage with the multiple ways of knowing that are part of theatrical production

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.7; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.2

Structure:

Ask students to share the images from productions that they found for homework last night—do these characters and set look as they pictured them? If not, what are the differences? What do they think led the designers to make these choices? Does one image "feel" more like the way they imagined the woods, the court in Athens, the bower? Why? Are there reasons, in this play, for the set to look less...