Thursday, January 30, 2014

We're English 10 Nerds and Loving It: January 30, 2014

Focus: What inferences can we make about A Midsummer Night's Dream to build context? In other words, what do you think this play is about?

3rd hour: During announcements, please post on today's blog one association you have with the word "midsummer" and one association you have with the word "dream."  For example, I associate the word "midsummer" with taking vacations and spending endless hours with friends.

1. Warming up: Tossing lines from Act 1, scene 1

Before we toss...
  • Who has a card with a word you don't know?
  • Who has a card with words you can't pronounce?
  • Practice saying your line.


After we toss...
  • Type in "Ye Ole Daily Log" as many lines as you can remember.
  • What can we infer about what's happening in this scene?
  • Where does the scene occur?
  • Who is involved?
  • What are some of the conflicts?


2. Exploring the cast of characters and making inferences about their hierarchy of power (with a partner)

3. Starting to read Act, scene 1 as a class and bringing spacial order to the lovers' complex relationships with a graphic organizer

4. Wrapping up: Looking back to your associations with "midsummer" and "dream," as well as your notes in "Ye Ole Daily Log," make one complex inference about the play by completing this statement: I think A Midsummer Night's Dream is about ____________, but it also seems to be about ____________.

HW:
1. For MONDAY: Using the No Fear Shakespeare version of A Midsummer Night's Dream (which you can access on the class website or by clicking HERE), read Act 1, scene 1, lines 1-212.

In your "Thou Doest Thine Homework" document, please make a list of all characters you meet in Act 1, scene 1, and, as specifically as possible, tell what each character wants. Support each response with a quotation from the play (in the original Shakespearean). This will be worth 20 points in the Growth category because, yes, it's that important.

2. SAT List 11 vocabulary quiz on Friday; bring your memoir independent reading book to class.

51 comments:

  1. I associate midsummer with vacation
    I associate dream with sleeping

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  2. I connect midsummer with summer
    I connect dream with sleep

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  3. I associate the word midsummer with camp
    I associate the word dream with sleep

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  4. I associate midsummer with spending time with friends & vacation
    I associate dream with sleeping

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  5. Midsummer with Florida
    Dream with sleeping

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  6. I associate with the word ¨midsummer" with taking summer vacations
    I associate with the word ¨dream"by the dreams I have

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  7. Midsummer, for me, is traveling
    Dreaming is sleep

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  8. I associate the word midsummer with summer swimming and I associate the word dream with sleep.

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  9. midsummer with going to hawaii
    dream with sleeping

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  10. I associate midsummer with a hot day beating on me while laying on a lawn chair by a cold pool.
    I associate dream with marvelously detailed experiences that my mind is making me witness.

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  11. When I think of midsummer I see the beach and mountains with friends and family. For dreaming, I think of all of the things that I wish to do in my future.

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  12. I associate dream with sleep
    I associate midsummer with vacation

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  13. I associate midsummer with losing track of what day it is and spending endless hours outside.
    I associate dream with falling into a deep sleep.

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  14. Midsummer with a warm day in June
    Dream with something amazing

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  15. I would the word midsummer with long hot summer days around the beginning of July. I associate the word dream with what happens when your sleeping and your mind comes up with different things.

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  16. midsummer with hot days and swimming
    sleep with sleeping

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  17. I think of the beach and the warm weather for Midsummer. For dreaming I think of all my dreams and the special times I have had.

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  18. Midsummer with a nice warm day during the middle of summer vacation
    Dream with something interesting

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  19. Midsummer - relaxation
    Dream- Goal

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  20. Midsummer with hot days and nature.
    Dream with pitch black

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  21. I would say midsummer could be mid June or mid August
    I would associate dream with seep

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  22. midsummer with the sun and dream with thoughts

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  23. I think of the midsummer as the time when I am thinking about what to buy for school.
    Dream is sleep.

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  24. I think A Midsummer Night's Dream is about love, but it also seems to be about betrayal.

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  25. I think A Midsummer Night's Dream is about people changing who they love but it also seems to be about mischief.

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  26. I think A Midsummer Night's Dream is about love, but it also seems to be about conflict between all the lovers.

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  27. I think A Midsummer Night's Dream is about a bunch of nerds falling in love, but it also seems to be about a daughter hating her dad and disobeying him.

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  28. I think A Midsummer Night's Dream is about love, but it also seems to be about betrayal.

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  29. I think Midsummer's night dream is about love, hidden romance, and magic, but it also seems to be about freedom as a person and choosing the correct path for you to go.

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  30. I think A Midsummer Nights Dream is about love, but also seems to be about heartbreak.

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  31. I think Midsummer Night's Dream is about conflict with love but also seems to be a lot of drama.

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  32. I think a midsummer nights dream is about love but is also about hatred and betrayal

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  33. I think Midsummer Night's dream is about Love, but it also seems to be about decisions.

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  34. I think A Midsummer Night's Dream is about love, but it also seems to be about betrayal.

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  35. about..... An epic love feud and twisted desires between all characters, but it also seems to be about mystical creatures getting involved in a human worlds

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  36. I think A Midsummer Night's Dream is about a dramatic love story [as per usual Shakespearean play], but it also seems to be about heartbreak and confilct.

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  37. I think A Midsummer Night's Dream is about Hermia's love life, but it also seems to be about Conflicts

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  38. I think Midsummer Night's Dream is about love but it also seems to be about anger.

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  39. I think a Midsummer Night's Dream is about a very complicated love square, but it also seems to be about not finding love.

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    1. I mean, maybe Helena won't win Demetrius...but maybe she will.

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  40. I think Midsummer night's dream is about a love quadrangle but is also about magic and how it will mess up the quadrangle.

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  41. I think A Midsummer Night's Dream is about love, but it also seems to be about conflict, and death.

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  42. I think Midsummer nights dream is about love gone wrong but it also seems to be about war and fighting.

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  43. I think A Midsummer Night's Dream is about love, and overall heartbreak and conflict. It also might have to do with what people will do for true love.

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  44. I think A Midsummer Night's Dream is about love, but it also seems to be about the frailness of relationships.

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  45. I think A Midsummer Night's Dream is about a love quadrangle, but it also seems to be about friendships and family.

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  46. I think a Midsummer Nights Dream is about a romance, but it also seems to be about a lot of mythology and made up not quite reality events.

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  47. I think a midsummer Nights Dream is about forbidden love, but its also about heartbreak.

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  48. I think Midsummer Night's Dream is about love but I also like its about lifes challenges

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  49. I think a Midsummer Night's Dream is about four people who have complicated love lives, but it also seems to be about how much freedom should be given to people about who they love and where they want to go in life.

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  50. I associate midsummer with summer
    I associate dream with sleeping

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