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Midsummer

Night’s

Dream

By William Shakespeare

Name_____________________________      Date____________________________

English Period___                                           Assignment Schedule for

                                                                          A Midsummer Night’s Dream

• Reading Schedule

          This schedule is aimed to structure your reading time for this unit. You are free to finish  the play as soon as possible. However, you must not fall behind this schedule. Questions corresponding each Act in the reading comprehension section of the schedule are due in class the day the reading assignment is due.

Acts                                                                           Date Due

Act One                                                                    ___________________________

Act Two                                                                    ___________________________

Act Three                                                                 ___________________________

Act Four                                                                   ___________________________

Act Five                                                                   ____________________________

• Vocabulary

           These assignments are to be kept in your notebooks and will be checked on their due date. You must be able to pronounce these words, spell them, and use them in a sentence of your own. You will receive a quiz on these words on the Friday after they are due. The quiz may require you to do any of the above mentioned skills. You of course, are to know their parts of speech as well.

Act One

• filched             5. visage      9. extempore

• abjure              6. base         10. discretion

• persuasion      7. perjured

• revenue           8. lamentable

Act Two

• perforce                            6. promontory 

• amorous                           7. dulcet

• undistinguishable            8. spurn 

• rheumatic                          9. clamorous

• chaplet                              10. Flout

Act Three

• chink                               6. kindred

•  brake                              7. bower

• knavery                           8. lamenting

• enamored                        9. consecrated

• purge                               10. Rebuke

Act Four

• amiable                      6. upbraid

• fret                              7. conjunction

• loath                           8. enmity

• entwist                       9. recount

• dotage                       10. Discourse

Act Five

• mirth                            6. wane

• audacious                   7. beguiled

• broached                     8. shroud

• tarrying                        9. sprite

• valor   

III. Reading Comprehension 

These questions are due on the day of the reading assignment. EVERY QUESTION MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AT LEAST ONE QUOTE FROM THE TEXT!!

Act One

• What are Theseus and Hippolyta discussing at the play’s start?

• How does Hippolyta come to be betrothed to Theseus?

• Why is Egeus disturbed?

• What will be Hermia’s fate if she refuses to marry Demetrius?

• To what do Lysander and Hermia agree?

• What hope does Helena have by telling Demetrius of Lysander and Herma’s flight?

•  Who are the characters in scene two, and what do they plan?

           Act Two  

• Why is Oberon angry with his queen?

• On what mission does Oberon send Puck?

•   Upon overhearing Demetrius and Helena, what does Oberron command Puck to do?

• Upon whose eyes does Puck apply the potion?

• When he wakes up, who does Lysander see and love?

• To where has Lysander disappeared when Hermia awakes?

Act Three

• Why does Bottom want a prologue written for the play?

• What has Puck done to Bottom?

• Identify the speaker: “Tie up my love’s tongue, bring him silently.”

• What news does Puck bring Oberon?

• Why does Oberon send Puck to fetch Helena?

• What is Helena’s situation at this point in the play?

•  What does Helena suppose of Hermia?

• What does Hermi think Helena has done?

• Why does Oberron send Puck to confuse the two young men? 

• What remedy corrects the crossed-loved couples?  

Act IV

• Why does Titania give Oberon the child?

• How does Oberon find Titania and Bottom?

• Why does Oberron remove the spell he has cast over his queen?

• Finding the two couples asleep in the wood and learning of their more balanced love, what order does Theseus give?

• What news does Bottom bring his companions?

Act V

• Why do you think Shakespeare included a play within a play/

• What do the fairies do after the palace goes to sleep?

• Who does Puck address at the play’s end?

• What is the purpose of this last speech?

Final Project-Pyramus and Thisby

Every student will take a part in this play within a play. They will record themselves reciting the lines of the play. Their grade will be based on their preparation, costume, recitation, and acting. Costumes or props will add to the performance!

Characters to be assigned:

Prologue (Quince)_________________________

Pyramus _________________________________

Thisby__________________________________

Wall____________________________________

Moonshine______________________________

Lion_____________________________________

Theseus_________________________________

Hippolyta_______________________________

Lysander________________________________