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ACTIvITy 4.15
stage directions
leArNING sTrATeGIes:
Marking the Text, Rereading, Discussion Groups, Rehearsal, Graphic Organizer
Twelfth Night,
Act 4, Scenes 1–2
324 SpringBoard® English Language Arts Grade 7
Learning Target
• Using a stage diagram, plan and rehearse a scene with stage movement and character interaction based on your analysis of the text.
Preview
In this activity, you will read and analyze a dialogue and think about how the characters interact and move.
Setting a Purpose for Reading
• As you read the dialogue, write notes in the margin with ideas you have about how the characters might move or interact with each other on stage.
• Circle unknown words and phrases. Try to determine the meaning of the words by using context clues, word parts, or a dictionary.
• Draw arrows next to lines to indicate which direction a character might move before, during, or after delivering a particular line.
adapted from
by William Shakespeare
Olivia: Be not offended, dear Cesario. I prithee, gentle friend,
Go with me to my house. Do not deny.
Sebastian: What relish is in this? how runs the stream? Or I am mad, or else this is a dream:
Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep;
If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!
Olivia: Nay, come, I prithee; would thou’ldst be ruled by me! Sebastian: Madam, I will.
Olivia: O, say so, and so be!
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Sebastian: This is the air; that is the glorious sun; This pearl she gave me, I do feel’t and see’t;
And though ’tis wonder that enwraps me thus, Yet ’tis not madness.
For though my soul disputes well with my sense, That this may be some error, but no madness, Yet doth this accident and flood of fortune
So far exceed all instance, all discourse,
That I am ready to distrust mine eyes
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