Wednesday, April 17, 2013

ENG1D

Reading from A Midsummer Night’s Dream aloud in groups from where we left off in Act 3, Sc 2

Begin collecting notes for your social media project and your news article.

I will be checking for your rough work (rough notes) around these two assignments.

Think about what you will need in order to do them:

For the social media project you will need to know what your character does in the play, what he/she thinks, why he/she is doing whatever he/she is doing (motivations), how he/she relates to other characters, what he/she wants (dramatic need), etc. You might also want to collect images that can be used to help illustrate elements of your character’s life and personality.  

For the news article, you need to follow the pattern that we examined yesterday, and then consider how to describe the events of the plot, and the characters, in a way that will allow your article to be exciting reading and get to the front page. Attaching a really good photo to this article as an anchor for your information would be a great idea.

PUCK

ACTIONS: he turns Bottom’s head into the head of an ass (a plot point or two)

THINKING: (the stuff based around what he says)

MOTIVATIONS: create chaos - do pranks - serve Oberon

RELATIONSHIPS:

DRAMATIC NEED: attention

You want to Tweet and FB things that are about the subject without being too “on the nose”

News Article

rough notes:

WHO

WHAT

WHERE

WHEN

DETAILS - WHY AND HOW

INTERVIEWS

EXPERTS

WHAT NEXT?

All news articles start off with THE LEDE -

Act 3, Sc 2

Who’s been dosed with LOVE POTION?

Lysander -> now loves Helena

Titania -> now loves Bottom (ass head version)

Demetrius -> now loves Helena
What is a duel?

A duel is a fight to the death over HONOUR

There is a situation brewing where we could see some true suffering out of this problem with the love potion - a duel is threatened between Lysander and Demetrius

Read on into Act 4, Sc 1