Day 4

A Midsummer Night's Dream Lesson Plan

Classroom Activities

  1. 1

    Scene Study (Day 1)

    Kind of Activity:

    Group Work

    Objective:

    Students will be able to engage with Shakespeare's text in its intendend form

    Common Core Standards:

    CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.4; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.2

    Structure:

    Initiate a discussion with the students about the difference between reading a play and reading a novel. A play was not intended primarily to be read like a book is; it was intended to be read by actors and then performed. Refer back to the previous day's Set and Costume Vision Boards activity and note that, although one could consider a play to be told with "only dialogue," it is in fact also told by actors, designers, and directors in...

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