1. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Intro

2. Agenda Review Annotation Expectations
Review Standards and Expectations associated with play
Plot Overview
Theme Overview
HOMEWORK TIME!!!!

3. Amundsen Annotations _________ (underline) main ideas
!!!!!!!!!!!!! (exclamation points) by something that interests you, surprises you, invokes any emotion…make sure you WRITE in the margins!
??????? (Question marks) any questions that you have, open-ended or content related. Make sure you WRITE in the margins!!!
Ooooo (circle) any words or phrases that you do not know!

4. Shakespeare
Why am I making you read Shakespeare??!?!!?!?

5. Shakespeare
To torture you.
Just Kidding.
Kind of.

6. Shakespeare Why am I making you read this? 1 – Common Core standards
2 – This is Brit Lit!
3- College Benefits
4 – Workplace Benefits

7. A midsummer nights Dream
Complicated love story….but actually meant as a comedy.
Look to the board for a character break down. HIGHLY recommend you copy that down!!!

8. Character Breakdown Theseus Hippolyta Egeus Hermia Lysander Demetrius
Helena
Oberon
Titania
Puck
Bottom
Quince
Flute
Snug
Snout
Straveling

9. Plot Overview
There are essentially four different stories going on here…

10. Plot 1
Theseus and Hippolyta are getting married
A huge royal wedding

11. Plot 2 Hermia loves Lysander Demetruis loves Hermia
Hermia’s dad loves Demetrius
Helena is CRAZY in love with Demetrius.
Demetrius wants NOTHING to do with Helena. NOTHING.
NOTHING.

12. Plot 3 The fairies are crazy.
Oberon and Titania are angry at each other and use the playgroup to try and make a point about who is right.

13. Plot 4 Misfit group of guys just trying to be actors.
Quince: carpenter
Snug: joiner
Bottom: a weaver
Flute: bellows-mender
Snout: a tinker
Starveling: a tailor

14. Themes
Love
Magic
Loyalty

15. Homework
Complete the reading for homework.
Quiz on Monday?!