1. AS Paper 1: Othello Lesson 6
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AS Paper 1: Othello
Lesson 6
LQ: Can I further my understanding of the plot and begin to look closely at language?

2. Key words: Play, drama, genre, contexts, historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences B4
Outstanding Progress: you will confidently explore through detailed and sophisticated critical analysis how writers use these aspects to create meaning B3
Excellent Progress: you will explore structure, form, language, themes and contexts, commenting on specific aspects with reference to how they shape meaning B2
Good Progress: you will show awareness of structure, form, language, themes and contexts, commenting on specific aspects with reference to how they shape meaning
LQ: Can I further develop my understanding of characterisation in Act 1?

3. Literary technique quiz
LQ: Can I further my understanding of the plot and begin to look closely at language?
Literary technique quiz
words or actions is clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.
figure of speech that juxtaposes elements that appear to be contradictory.
Dramatic Irony
Oxymoron
attributing of human emotion and conduct to all aspects within nature
Allusion
Hubris
Pathetic Fallacy
reference to a place, person, or something that happened
excessive pride or self-confidence
Aside
Paradox
Monologue
a statement that contradicts itself 
intended to be heard by the audience but is supposed to be unheard by the other characters in the play
A speech presented by a single character, most often to express their mental thoughts aloud,
Ext: Can you come up wit any others?
1 change/deception
2 with respect but are willing to acknowledge Brab’s accuations of witchcraft
3 agressive
Blank verse
Soliloquy
Foreshadowing
a warning or indication of (a future event)
poetry written in regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always iambic pentameters
a speech made to the audience in which a character reveals their inner thoughts
Key words: Play, drama, genre, contexts, historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences, character analysis

4. LQ: Can I analyse the effect of foreshadowing in Act 1 Scene 3?
LQ: Can I further my understanding of the plot and begin to look closely at language?
LQ: Can I analyse the effect of foreshadowing in Act 1 Scene 3?
LQ: Can I further develop my understanding of characterisation in Act 1?
LQ: Can I identify the changing traits of characters?
LQ: Can I analyse structure, form, language, themes and contexts in Othello?
You have been given a quote from Act 1.
In pairs, you are going to analyse it for language choices and techniques.
You are then going to come up with a suitable question for which your quotation would be used.
You are then going to find another quotation from the text that best supports your point.
Lastly, you are going to introduce an aspect of context that supports your point and is in line with the quotations that you have been given.
Iago thinks that Othello is sleeping with his wife.
Iago views Cassio as a ‘proper’ (handsome) man
Othello is a man that thinks ‘men honest’
0.20onwards
Key words: Play, drama, genre, contexts, historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences, character analysis

5. LQ: Can I analyse the effect of foreshadowing in Act 1 Scene 3?
LQ: Can I further my understanding of the plot and begin to look closely at language?
LQ: Can I further develop my understanding of characterisation in Act 1?
LQ: Can I identify the changing traits of characters?
LQ: Can I analyse structure, form, language, themes and contexts in Othello?
"Damned as thou art, thou hast enchanted her!
For I'll refer me to all things of sense,
If she in chains of magic were not bound”
(Brabantio, Act 1 Scene 1)
Iago thinks that Othello is sleeping with his wife.
Iago views Cassio as a ‘proper’ (handsome) man
Othello is a man that thinks ‘men honest’
0.20onwards
Key words: Play, drama, genre, contexts, historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences, character analysis

6. LQ: Can I analyse the effect of foreshadowing in Act 1 Scene 3?
LQ: Can I further my understanding of the plot and begin to look closely at language?
LQ: Can I further develop my understanding of characterisation in Act 1?
LQ: Can I identify the changing traits of characters?
LQ: Can I analyse structure, form, language, themes and contexts in Othello?
"I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at; I am not what I am.“
(Iago, Act 1 Scene 1)
Iago thinks that Othello is sleeping with his wife.
Iago views Cassio as a ‘proper’ (handsome) man
Othello is a man that thinks ‘men honest’
0.20onwards
Key words: Play, drama, genre, contexts, historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences, character analysis

7. LQ: Can I identify the changing traits of characters?
LQ: Can I further my understanding of the plot and begin to look closely at language?
LQ: Can I further develop my understanding of characterisation in Act 1?
LQ: Can I identify the changing traits of characters?
" Look to her, Moor, if though hast eyes to see. She has decieved her father, and may thee.“
(Brabantio, Act 1 Scene 3)
Iago thinks that Othello is sleeping with his wife.
Iago views Cassio as a ‘proper’ (handsome) man
Othello is a man that thinks ‘men honest’
0.20onwards
Key words: Play, drama, genre, contexts, historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences, character analysis

8. LQ: Can I analyse the effect of foreshadowing in Act 1 Scene 3?
LQ: Can I further my understanding of the plot and begin to look closely at language?
LQ: Can I analyse structure, form, language, themes and contexts in Othello?
LQ: Can I further develop my understanding of characterisation in Act 1?
“My noble father,
I do perceive here a divided duty.
To you I am bound for life and education.
My life and education both do learn me
How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty,
I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband”
(Desdemona, Act 1 Scene 3)
Iago thinks that Othello is sleeping with his wife.
Iago views Cassio as a ‘proper’ (handsome) man
Othello is a man that thinks ‘men honest’
0.20onwards
Key words: Play, drama, genre, contexts, historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences, character analysis

9. LQ: Can I identify the changing traits of characters?
LQ: Can I further my understanding of the plot and begin to look closely at language?
LQ: Can I further develop my understanding of characterisation in Act 1?
LQ: Can I identify the changing traits of characters?
LQ: Can I analyse structure, form, language, themes and contexts in Othello?
"The Moor is of a free and open nature
That thinks men honest that but seem to be so;
And will as tenderly be led by th' nose
As asses are." (391-4)
(Iago, Act 1 Scene 3)
Iago thinks that Othello is sleeping with his wife.
Iago views Cassio as a ‘proper’ (handsome) man
Othello is a man that thinks ‘men honest’
0.20onwards
Key words: Play, drama, genre, contexts, historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences, character analysis

10. LQ: Can I identify the changing traits of characters?
LQ: Can I further my understanding of the plot and begin to look closely at language?
LQ: Can I further develop my understanding of characterisation in Act 1?
LQ: Can I identify the changing traits of characters?
LQ: Can I analyse structure, form, language, themes and contexts in Othello?
Rude am I in my speech,
And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace:
For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith,
Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used
Their dearest action in the tented field”
(Othello, Act 1 Scene 3)
Iago thinks that Othello is sleeping with his wife.
Iago views Cassio as a ‘proper’ (handsome) man
Othello is a man that thinks ‘men honest’
0.20onwards
Key words: Play, drama, genre, contexts, historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences, character analysis

11. LQ: Can I identify the changing traits of characters?
LQ: Can I further my understanding of the plot and begin to look closely at language?
LQ: Can I identify the changing traits of characters?
LQ: Can I analyse structure, form, language, themes and contexts in Othello?
“And little of this great world can I speak,
More than pertains to feats of broil and battle,
And therefore little shall I grace my cause
In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience,
I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver
Of my whole course of love."
(Othello, Act 1 Scene 1)
Iago thinks that Othello is sleeping with his wife.
Iago views Cassio as a ‘proper’ (handsome) man
Othello is a man that thinks ‘men honest’
0.20onwards
Key words: Play, drama, genre, contexts, historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences, character analysis

12. LQ: Can I identify the changing traits of characters?
LQ: Can I further my understanding of the plot and begin to look closely at language?
LQ: Can I further develop my understanding of characterisation in Act 1?
LQ: Can I identify the changing traits of characters?
LQ: Can I analyse structure, form, language, themes and contexts in Othello?
"The Moor is of a free and open nature
That thinks men honest that but seem to be so;
And will as tenderly be led by th' nose
As asses are."
(Iago, Act 1 Scene 3)
Iago thinks that Othello is sleeping with his wife.
Iago views Cassio as a ‘proper’ (handsome) man
Othello is a man that thinks ‘men honest’
0.20onwards
Key words: Play, drama, genre, contexts, historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences, character analysis

13. LQ: Can I analyse the effect of foreshadowing in Act 1 Scene 3?
LQ: Can I identify the changing traits of characters?
LQ: Can I further develop my understanding of characterisation in Act 1?
LQ: Can I analyse structure, form, language, themes and contexts in Othello?
You have been given a quote from Act 1.
In pairs, you are going to analyse it for language choices and techniques.
You are then going to come up with a suitable question for which your quotation would be used.
You are then going to find another quotation from the text that best supports your point.
Lastly, you are going to introduce an aspect of context that supports your point and is in line with the quotations that you have been given.
Outstanding Progress: evaluative and analytical understanding, referring to language choices and context with an additional quotation to support ideas
Excellent Progress: detailed language analysis and a considered point that is supported with two quotations.
Iago thinks that Othello is sleeping with his wife.
Iago views Cassio as a ‘proper’ (handsome) man
Othello is a man that thinks ‘men honest’
0.20onwards
Good Progress: identification of technique and analysis that shows understanding of plot
Key words: Play, drama, genre, contexts, historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences, character analysis

14. Key words: Play, drama, genre, contexts, historical, social, cultural, race, religion, gender, Venice, Cyprus, attitude, audiences B4
Outstanding Progress: you will confidently explore through detailed and sophisticated critical analysis how writers use these aspects to create meaning B3
Excellent Progress: you will explore structure, form, language, themes and contexts, commenting on specific aspects with reference to how they shape meaning B2
Good Progress: you will show awareness of structure, form, language, themes and contexts, commenting on specific aspects with reference to how they shape meaning
LQ: Can I further develop my understanding of characterisation in Act 1?