The Play Within the Play: November 5, 2018

Focus: What larger themes emerge through the tradesmen's performance of Pyramus and Thisbe?

1. Warming up with three good things and a scoreboard check:

• What conflicts were set up in Acts 1 and 2?

• In Acts 3 and 4, who won each one?

• How was each one won?

• What patterns can you find among the nature of the conflicts, who won them, and how they were won?

2. Close reading the opening passages in Act 5 for dreams, reality, and metatheatre

3. Performing Act 5 with a focus on metatheater: How does the tradesmen's performance reflect the motifs, dichotomies, tone and/or themes of A Midsummer Night's Dream?

4. Considering the significance of Puck's final speech

HW:
1. TOMORROW: Timed writing on a 16th century poem (Q1).

2. For WEDNESDAY, NOV 7: Final draft is due. It must be printed with the Night-Before Checklist stapled to the top.