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| Date: June 2st |
| Class: English |
| Objective:
To prepare for a first reading by describing images and significances of shipwrecks and storms To introduce the premise behind the opening conflict in the Tempest. To introduce and describe the characters. To translate Shakespearean prose into modern description, in order to establish setting and mood.. |
| Materials: |
| Opening Motivational Set:
Picture of the Raft of the Medusa (together with picture by Waterhouse of Miranda watching) "What sort of conflict?" (nature vs human) "Describe the setting" "Describe the feelings of the men involved" "Their thoughts" "Their hopes in this scene" "Who is in control?" "If I said someone was controlling the storm itself, what sort of conflict was really happening?" |
| Procedure:
1. Introduce initial conflict between Prospero and Antonio by reading and slowly translating Prospero's speech (overhead) to Miranda. (Notion of a prequel, or a story before the story) 2. Go over prinicipal characters
involved. When reaching Miranda's relationship and conflict, discuss
Waterhouse Picture
3. Read first scene of first act aloud. Have students placed as on a ship. As the whole line is understood, students then recite again the line. As the scene begins to come to a close, have students say the lines in their own words to show how it is possible to translate and modify Shakespearean speech for the purpose of visualizing the scene. 4. Students create a title page for this section of the tempest study, by drawing the first scene and inserting lines in bubbles next to two characters. 5. Assign reading roles and reading for the next
day's class. (Scene 2 until Miranda sleeps)
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| Followup/ Evaluation:
Next day we read above scene 2 orally and answer questions in groups |
My brother and thy uncle,
call'd Antonio--
I pray thee, mark me--that
a brother should
Be so perfidious!--he whom
next thyself
Of all the world I loved
and to him put
The manage of my state; as
at that time
Through all the signories
it was the first
And Prospero the prime duke,
being so reputed
In dignity, and for the liberal
arts
Without a parallel; those
being all my study,
The government I cast upon
my brother
And to my state grew stranger,
being transported
And rapt in secret studies.
