Despite being one of Shakespeare's most popular works, A Midsummer Night's Dream can be a tough play to follow. It contains four plots, and as Puck's work unfolds, things can get a little strange. With the help of these activities, your students will master this comedy and become pros with Shakespeare!
Studenteraktiviteter for En Skærsommernatsdrøm
Essential Questions for A Midsummer Night's Dream
- What are the different types of love? Could you list them?
- Would you go against your family to follow your heart?
- What are the qualities that make a good friend?
- Consider illusions and reality.
- What do we need to see with our own eyes to believe, and what do we believe without seeing?
- What do we see, but not believe?
- How does this translate to our actions when we are in love?
- We cannot touch love, or taste love, or even see love; how does the illusion of love create our reality?
A Midsummer Night's Dream Summary
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare is a fanciful comedy centered around Puck (also called Robin Goodfellow), a magical fairy-like creature. The play begins with the Duke of Athens preparing to wed the Queen of the Amazons. During preparations for the festival, two young men, Demetrius, and Lysander meet a young nobleman’s daughter, Hermia. Both men fall in love with her, but her father only gives her permission to marry Demetrius. However, it is Lysander that Hermia loves. She makes plans to run away with Lysander and tells her best friend, Helena. Unbeknownst to Hermia, Helena is in love with Demetrius, and plans to tell him in hopes of winning him over.
Meanwhile, Puck is sent on a quest by Oberon, King of the Fairies, to find a magical Cupid-like flower so that he can punish Titania, the Queen of the Fairies, and force her to give him a changeling for his servant. When the flower is sprinkled on a sleeping person's eyelids, they will fall desperately in love with the first thing they see when they wake up. Puck uses the flower on Titania, who wakes up to see a hapless basket-weaver and actor, Bottom, whose face has been turned into that of a donkey. Due to the mischievous nature of fairies, issues again arise when Puck tries to intervene with the predicaments of Hermia, Helena, Demetrius, and Lysander, who have all run away to the forest. After sprinkling dust in each of the men's eyes, they both fall in love with Helena, forgetting Hermia. This creates intense jealousy between the women, and renewed rivalry between the men, who challenge each other to a fight to win Helena.
After some time, Puck is forced to fix his mistakes. However, while rectifying things, Demetrius truly falls in love with Helena. At this time, the Duke of Athens arrives, finding the lovers in the woods, and is told the story. He insists that they are all wed during his wedding ceremony. After the wedding, Bottom's troupe performs a comical version of a play, Pyramus and Thisbe. In the end, only Puck remains on stage. He begs the audiences' forgiveness for his embarrassing mistakes and prays everyone remembers the play as if it were only a dream.
Don’t Let the Fun Stop! Check Out Our Other Lesson Plan Ideas
- This play actually contains FOUR plots! Track what the plots are, and when they intersect. Storyboard these four plots and track how they come together.
- Depict 50 lines from a scene as a storyboard.
- In a group, read about Pyramus and Thisbe, or the story of Theseus, and create storyboards to present to the class that demonstrate an understanding of the references to these stories in the play.
- Visually depict a major soliloquy or monologue from the play.
Sådan gør du Shakespeare Mere Tilgængelig for Unge Læsere
Hav en Ikke-frygt Politik
Nogle gange er eleverne så bekymrede over ordet Shakespeare, at de ikke engang vil komme ind i stykket, fordi de synes, det er for svært. Bare sørg for, at eleverne er MEGET de kan forstå, og arbejd hårdt for at skabe disse forbindelser med dem.
Forklar Skuespillene i Alderssvarende Termer
Shakespeares sprog kan være svært for eleverne at forstå, så brug lidt tid på at afklare ideer for eleverne. Du kan hjælpe dem med at blive engageret i en tekst, og så kan deres entusiasme bære dem.
Giv eleverne mulighed for at reflektere med storyboards
Eleverne lærer bedst ved at gøre, og storyboards er en fantastisk måde for dem at aktivere læring på. Ved at se på historieelementer gennem linsen af billeder og beskrivelser er eleverne i stand til at nedbryde svære ideer til mere overskuelige koncepter.
Ofte stillede spørgsmål om en skærsommernatsdrøm af William Shakespeare
Hvorfor er det vigtigt for studerende at studere William Shakespeare?
Nogle mennesker tror, at Shakespeare kan være for svært for studerende, men at læse Shakespeare vil lære unge mennesker om den menneskelige tilstand. Shakespeares skuespil er fyldt med kærlighed og had, liv og død og alt derimellem. Ud over at være velskrevne skuespil, der skal studeres, vil de lære eleverne at være mennesker.
Hvad er en enetale?
Et enetale er en tale, som en karakter siger alene på scenen, som giver indsigt i den pågældende karakters tanker og følelser og andre elementer i stykket. Shakespeare bruger soliloquies til at grave dybere ned i baggrunden, følelser osv.
Hvordan skildrer En skærsommernatsdrøm illusioner vs. virkelighed?
En skærsommernatsdrøm har fire forskellige historielinjer, og ligesom titlen antyder, handler et af hovedplottene om drømme og virkelighed. Gennem karakterernes handling viser Shakespeare, at tingene ikke altid er, som de ser ud!
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