Jan 10/11

**Make sure all revisions and revision reflections have been turned in.

1. Complete the question on Classroom.

• gender roles and restrictions
• family relationships (especially marriages and parent to child)
• political manipulation, use of power
• racial references
• artists and art in the text (this will require you to look up Mendelssohn's music)
• thematic focus (Is happiness possible? Can love last without some kind of outside help?)

2. Mr. Hite will introduce himself.

3. Review what we read last class. Continue reading.

3. Discuss the play we've read so far.

• How did you see the interpretation for which you decided to read reflected in the text?
• Is Hermia in love with Lysander simply because it isn't allowed?
• Which social class is the focus of the play? Why? Is there a big distinction between classes?
• What is the purpose for the play within the play? Is Shakespeare trying to draw attention to what his actors really do or what is required of the audience in their imagination? Or is he juxtaposing his professional actors with mechanics? Why mechanics?
• Describe the role of the character "Bottom."
• How does the structure of the lines change as we move from Theseus to the workers?
• Notice change in rhythm of the fairies (Catalectic Trochaic Tetrameter= DUM-da, DUM-da, DUM-da, DUM-da)

4. How to quote Shakespeare

Homework: None yet...but be thinking about how Shakespeare uses the structure of the text (blank verse, prose, catalectic trochaic tetrameter; character introductions at different times, various acts and scenes placed in certain places, etc.) to develop characterization.