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MODULE 3 LESSON 18
WHAT IS LOVE?
Draw a Picture
WELCOME
Imagine what Bottom looks after his transformation.
LAUNCH
What text evidence informed your drawing of Bottom?
SWBAT think more deeply about A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a dramatic performance and examine their role as the audience.
*Viewing the scenes of the play will better highlight the humor that results from the characters’ conflicting points of view, especially the characters’ views of love.
How does your drawing of Bottom help you understand why the situation between Bottom and Titania is complicated?
Learn
Learn
View A Dramatic Performance
“Globe On Screen 2014: A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
- As you watch, note observations or reactions.
- What did you notice?
- Reread 3.1.127–143.
Examine a Dramatic Performance
Watch the clip again and record as many examples of actors’ movements and expressions as possible.
How does the audience react to Titania’s movements in this scene?
- Now go to the Actors’ Speech section of Handout 18A.
- What are some examples of the terms provided?
- Close your eyes and listen for examples of the terms listed on your handout.
How does listening to the actors deliver these lines help you understand the lines’ meaning?
Record evidence, and then write two or three descriptive sentences that summarize the differences in points of view in Act 3 Scene 1.
Write about Point of View
What does it mean to distinguish something from something?
CREE + A – alternate or opposing claims
Why might it be important to include other claims in an argument?
Read the evidence-based claim in the first paragraph of the exemplar essay on HANDOUT 3B: “Pyramus and Thisbe is a tragedy because in the action of the play, two young lovers are overwhelmed by outside pressures and commit suicide.”
Find and underline the alternate or opposing claim that the author identifies in the essay.
- Is this an alternate or opposing claim? How do you know?
- How does the author distinguish this claim from their own?
Examine Distinguishing Claims
LAND
Share one way that watching the dramatic performance helped them better understand what’s happening in Act 3, Scene 1.
WRAP
Read 3.2.43–123 in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and annotate for differences in point of view.
Vocabulary Learning Goal: Use knowledge of the prefix en– and context clues to determine the meanings of enticed, enamored, and enthralled and verify preliminary definitions in a dictionary.
OUTSIDE-IN STRATEGY
The prefix en– means “to cause to be” or “in, into.”
*Act 2, Scene 1, Lines 206–208* -----> ENTICE.
What clues are there outside of the word to help you guess its meaning?
DEEP DIVE
How does looking at the word parts, specifically the prefix en–, help you understand the word?
ENAMORED in Act 3, Scene 1, Lines 139–143
*enamored contains an important root, amor, which means “love, loving, or fondness for.*
enthralled in Act 3, Scene 1, Lines 139–143.