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Creating Context for shakespearean Comedy
aCTIVITy 4.13
Learning Targets
• Research to build knowledge about Shakespeare.
• Collaborate to build and share knowledge about Shakespeare.
• MakeconnectionstoestablishcontextfortheplayAMidsummerNight’sDream.
Drama Study
1. Complete the sentence starters about William Shakespeare in the first column below. Support your responses to the statements, and note any questions you have about him.
Who Is Shakespeare?
How Do I Know This?
Questions I Have
Shakespeare was an author of plays and poetry.
I have seen a movie based on one of his plays, called Romeo and Juliet.
How many of his other works have been made into movies?
Shakespeare lived ...
Shakespeare accomplished ...
Shakespeare ...
Unit 4 • The Challenge of Comedy 319
learNING sTraTeGIes:
Note-taking, Marking the Text, Skimming/Scanning, Discussion Groups
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