Bellringer: May 8th period 2 In YOUR NOTES In act III, Portia sets it up so that she can go prove her wits in Venice in court. What’s her plan? Where does Lorenzo think she has gone? Where does she go? How does she get the clothes and the credentials she needs?

Act IV Scene 1 – the trial The video starts where Portia enters the trial. Answer these questions in your notes. What is at stake in this trial? How does Portia “win” the trial? How does Antonio “win” the trial? What does Shylock lose? What does he really lose?

The plots! In your groups and with your assignment plot, map out the events and the issue with the plot. If the plot is resolved (or you think it is), show the denouement for the plot. Below the map, write what you think the THEME is for this particular plot. WOE to YOU who gives a summary instead of a theme.

Read Act IV! Be on the lookout for the comment about humanity with regards to how money, love, religion, law, marriage, justice, and mercy interrelate.

Ticket out May 8 – repeat your understanding of your homework. Homework – finish the play. You’ll have an essay test on Tuesday about the play. It’ll focus on the plots, the theme, irony, characterization, and the interrelationship between money, love, religion, law, marriage, justice, and mercy. You can probably predict the essay question now. It’ll be open note/open book, but you’ll only have next class to write it in class.