Photograph of Paul Robeson as Othello and Peggy Ashcroft as Desdemona from the 1930 London production of Shakespeare's Othello. Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives.
Essential Questions for Othello [see attachment]
Introductory Writing Prompt: A year from now, you will be immersed in a completely new setting. It may be a military, career, or college setting. Stop and create a mental image of the people who will surround you there. Write a 5-7 sentence paragraph filled with rich description of those people in that particular setting.
Tossing lines activity (see attachments).
Incomplete or Complete? Iago's soliloquy and sentence structures
Dr. Carolyn's Modeling: Memos to Self (see attachment below, titled "critical race theory memos to self")
Assignment: Online Persona Role Play
Act One
Act Two Acting Companies
Students will dramatize the following lines and be ready to discuss, after their performances, “What is significant from this scene?” [narrative structure, themes, theory through the Language of Interpretation] The class should lead an open-ended question-and answer session, to which Dr. Carolyn will augment ideas and questions.
2.1.200-175: Desdemona and Iago [75 lines]
2.2.1-12 Herald [12}
2.3.45-61: Iago [15]
2.3.65-115: Iago, Cassio, and Montano [60]
2.3.116-161: Iago, Cassio, and Montano [45]
2.3.336-362: Iago [27]