Midsummer skits:

Next class is rehearsal. The class after that (wed/thurs) is performance day. You need the following:

- Lines converted into modern English.
- 5 significant quotations, read verbatim, and write in clear lettering on large paper or board-held up as they are said during your performance.
- large names on each character so we know who you are
- costumes
- props (music, lighting, staging etc)

Homework for next class (after the weekend):

1. Design a costume for the fairy you have been assigned. Include written details pointing out different parts of the costume. In colour on a plain piece of paper.

2. Read act 3, scene 1 on your own.

3. Review the scenes we read in class for quotations.

Weekend Homework:
Reread Act I, scene i and start to collect quotation for the various topics and themes we discussed in class.

Also, watch the film posted below.

In preparation for our play, please watch this thought-provoking video on the world's favourite topic - love. 

Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it? To learn more about our very real, very physical need for romantic love, Helen Fisher and her research team took MRIs of people in love -- and people who had just been dumped.

http://www.ted.com/talks/helen_fisher_studies_the_brain_in_love.html

Interpret scene from play into modern language and setting. Next class is another rehearsal period. Performance will happen the class after that.

Listen to songs and the radio and start to identify songs that focus on true love, unrequited love, and infatuation. What are the songs saying about each? You just have to think about this, not write it down.

Once you recognize themes in other songs, write your own poem/song on one or all of the above topics. The poem/song should be a minimum of 18 lines long.

Due next class. Not MLA.