Paragraph Writing Task: Read through the example paragraphs from a past piece of coursework. You should highlight any key words or quotes that you find effective. You should then write a comment at the bottom of the page about what you think the student has done well, and a target if you think there is anything they could improve …

As a class, using the example paragraphs we are now going to write a success criteria of what we need to include in our essay responses: Success Criteria:

Task: You will now have some time to review your paragraphs you completed for homework and rewrite one of them, using the success criteria we have created together … Now pass your paragraph to the person sitting next to you … You should highlight any key words or quotes that you find effective. You should then write a comment at the bottom of the page about what you think the student has done well, and a target if you think there is anything they could improve …

Starter – Now that Hero and Claudio have agreed to marry - will that be their happy ending? Which character might want to interfere/ruin things for the lovers? Learning Objective – to explore Act 2 in the play.

Let’s read Act 2, Scene 2: Borachio’s plan … Task: Bullet point the sequence of events that Borachio is going to put into action. How might this develop the comedy of the play? (Think about Aristotle’s theories …) Borachio’s plan: 1)Don Pedro and Claudio together alone. 2)Tell them that Hero loves Borachio 3)Say that you have witnessed Hero and Borachio (but they won’t believe you) 4)Take them to the chambermaid’s window – there they will see Borachio and Margaret. 5)Margaret will be mistaken for Hero. 6)The night before the wedding 7)Borachio will arrange for Hero to be absent 8)The wedding will be cancelled.

Benedick: I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviors to love, will, after he hath laughed at such shallow follies in others, become the argument of his own scorn by falling in love— and such a man is Claudio. I have known when there was no music with him but the drum and the fife, and now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe. I have known when he would have walked ten mile afoot to see a good armor, and now will he lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose, like an honest man and a soldier, and now is he turned orthography; his words are a very fantastical banquet, just so many strange dishes. May I be so converted and see with these eyes? I cannot tell; I think not I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster, but I’ll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me, he shall never make me such a fool. One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that’s certain; wise, or I’ll none; virtuous, or I’ll never cheapen her; fair, or I’ll ever look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall be of what color it please God. Ha! The Prince and Monsieur Love! I will hide me in the arbor. What is Benedick saying?

Benedick’s thoughts: -) Claudio has changed due to his love for Hero (bad way) -) He never wants to become like Claudio: ‘I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster.’ – Connotations – shut off/quiet/withdrawn -) Difference between him and Claudio! -) Describes his perfect woman: Fair Wise Virtuous Rich An excellent musician But he doesn’t mind what colour hair she has!

Task: Working with a partner, after reading Benedick’s soliloquy, produce him a lonely hearts advert. It needs to include what he is looking for in a woman! HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, petite East End woman, loves keeping fit and music, seeks white male, 30-35, who is 100% genuine, honest and caring, for friendship possibly more. CUDDLY male, young 47, likes food, wine, sports, comedies, evenings in/out, WLTM warm, considerate female, 30-40, NS, GSOH

Let’s read on … What does Benedick think is happening? Are we at the: Exposition Complication Resolution How do you know? How does Benedick’s spying add to the comedy of the play? Why would an audience find this funny? What might happen next?

Starter – How did we leave Benedick at the end of last lesson? What state was he in? Learning Objective – to explore the role of spying in the play and how this contributes to comedy.

Let’s read the end of the Act … BALTHASAR (singing) Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. Then sigh not so, but let them go, And be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey, nonny nonny. Sing no more ditties, sing no mo Of dumps so dull and heavy. The fraud of men was ever so, Since summer first was leavy. Then sigh not so, but let them go And be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into Hey, nonny nonny. What is Balthasar singing about? What is the purpose of a song?

BENEDICK (coming forward) This can be no trick. The conference was sadly borne; they have the truth of this from Hero; they seem to pity the lady. It seems her affections have their full bent. Love me? Why, it must be requited! I hear how I am censured. They sy I will bear myself proudly if I perceive the love come from her. They say, too, that she will rather die than give any sign of affection. I did never think to marry. I must not seem proud. Happy are they that hear their detractions and can put them to mending. They say the lady is fair; ’tis a truth, I can bear them witness. And virtuous; ’tis so, I cannot reprove it. And wise, but for loving me; by my troth, it is no addition to her wit, nor no great argument of her folly, for I will be horribly in love with her! I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me because I have railed so long against marriage, but doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humor? No! The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. Here comes Beatrice. By this day, she’s a fair lady. I do spy some marks of love in her. What do we learn about Benedick’s character?

Benedick’s soliloquy: Admits to hearing the conversation between the characters He says they pity Beatrice He thinks that Beatrice is in love with him. He is shocked. He overhears them saying that he will be proud and big-headed, he disagrees. He didn’t think he’d marry and he won’t be proud. He believes that she won’t show any signs of affection. ‘When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.’ – COMICAL

BEATRICE Against my will, I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me. If it had been painful, I would not have come BENEDICK You take pleasure then in the message? BEATRICE Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife’s point and choke a daw withal. You have no stomach, Signior. Fare you well. [exit] BENEDICK Ha! “Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner.” There’s a double meaning in that. “I took no more pains for those thanks than you took pains to thank me.” That’s as much as to say, “Any pains that I take for you is as easy as thanks.” If I do not take pity of her, I am a villain. If I do not love her, I am a Jew. I will go get her picture. What is happening in this section?

Task: Make a flow diagram of the emotions/feelings that Benedick and Beatrice have in chronological order. At the beginning of the play Benedick is … Then (this) happens … which makes him feel like (this) At the beginning of the play Beatrice is … Then (this) happens … which makes her feel like (this)