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WHAT IS LOVE?
MODULE 3 LESSON 11
What do you notice and wonder about this painting?
WELCOME
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LAUNCH
SWBAT reflect on the themes developed in the first two acts of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
SWBAT distill their understanding of what defines the experience of love, using both words and images, beginning with words.
Write about Theme
Helena says, “Things base and vile, holding not quantity, / Love can transpose to form and dignity. / Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; / And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” (1.1.238–241).
LEARN
What is Helena saying about love?
Identify and explain a theme about what defines the experience of love.
TITLE: The Arnolfini Portrait
AUTHOR: Jan van Eyck
DATE: 1434
MEDIUM: Oil on panel
Comprehend the Subject of a Painting1
How can this information, as well as your other observations, help you understand what’s happening in the painting? How might it be related to topics we have examined in Shakespeare’s play?
*Let's look at some details in the painting
How do these symbols develop your understanding of the painting’s depiction of an experience of love?
Create
a
Symbol
for
Love
Review your writings about theme, and create a symbol that represents your theme about the experience of love.
Draw your symbol on a blank page in your Response Journals.
"FISHBOWL DISCUSSION"
Participate in a Fishbowl Discussion
Focus on the purpose of the discussion by:
Jotting a connection between two or more peers’ comments. The connection may be written in the form of an elaboration or a question.
How can executing your Speaking Goal help you execute your Listening Goal?
Distill: What are the themes about love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
Complete the following sentence frame:
LAND
WRAP
Find one line from the play that illustrates the theme represented by your symbol and write it underneath your symbol.
Learning Goal: Identify the traits of the conditional verb mood and recognize verbs in the conditional mood.
“indicative,” “interrogative,” “imperative”
If Demetrius withdrew his claim, Hermia could marry Lysander.
What do you notice and wonder about the verb phrase could marry?
DEEP DIVE
O, were favor [looks] so! / Yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go” (1.1.189–190).
Identify the conditional verb mood in the original sentence and paraphrase the sentence, maintaining the conditional verb mood.