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Acting for Understanding
ACTIvITy 4.12
Learning Targets
• Analyze a dialogue by paraphrasing to determine what the text says.
• Plan and rehearse a performance that communicates meaning to an audience through vocal and visual delivery.
Preview
In this activity, you will read a dialogue and think about how the characters interact. Setting a Purpose for Reading
• Asyoureadthedialogue,underlinelinesthattellyouwhatthecharactershave seen or heard.
• Circle unknown words and phrases. Try to determine the meaning of the words by using context clues, word parts, or a dictionary.
• Put a star next to lines that indicate what might happen next in the play.
Twelfth Night,
Act 1, Scene 2
by William Shakespeare
Viola: What country, friends, is this?
Captain: This is Illyria, lady.
Viola: And what should I do in Illyria?
My brother he is in Elysium.
Perchance he is not drown’d: what think you, sailors? Captain: To comfort you with chance,
Assure yourself, after our ship did split,
I saw your brother bind himself
To a strong mast that lived upon the sea.
Viola: For saying so, there’s gold:
Know’st thou this country?
Captain: Ay, madam, well; for I was bred and born Not three hours’ travel from this very place.
Viola: Who governs here?
Captain: A noble duke, in nature as in name.
Viola: What is the name?
adapted from
my Notes
Unit 4 • How We Choose to Act 311
leArNING sTrATeGIes:
Paraphrasing, Marking the Text, Oral Reading, Rereading, Discussion Groups, Rehearsal
literary Terms
A dialogue is a conversation between two characters in a play.
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