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ACTIVITY 3.4
Interacting in Meaningful Ways: Academic Collaboration
Learning Targets
• Ask and answer questions about a dramatic monologue in collaborative conversations, demonstrating active listening, and drawing upon an expanding pool of language resources for discussing literature. PI.7.1, PI.7.5, PI.7.6a–c
• Analyze specific language choices and their effects. PI.7.8
• Express and support opinions of a dramatic monologue in conversation. PI.7.11a
Turn to your partner or small group to discuss each question about the monologue from Twelfth Night. After you have discussed a question, write notes about your answer before going on to the next question.
1. Who is the speaker of the monologue and what is he doing in the first stanza? What does he call music? Does he want more or less music? ccss.RL.7.1
The speaker is Duke Orsino and he is listening to music, which he calls the food of love. He wants more music.
3. What is the “strain” in line 4? How does his attitude toward music change in the second stanza? Why does it change? ccss.RL.7.2, RL.7.4
The strain refers to a particular melody or part of the music. He is tired of the music and wants it to stop. The strain he hears has made him sad.
asking Questions
2. In lines 2–3, what does he want to happen because of the “food of love”? Why? Why might he be described as lovesick? ccss.RL.7.2
He wants to have so much food/music/love, that he will get sick and stop wanting love. He is lovesick because he wants love, but it is making him sick.
4. In stanza 3, what does the duke say that love is like? What does the sea do to things that fall into it? What is his final attitude toward love? ccss. RL.7.2, RL.7.4
He says that love is like the sea, which is large. But he says the sea destroys anything that enters it, no matter how valuable it is. He thinks love is destructive and changeable, like the sea.
The speaker’s attitude toward music in stanza 3 is because .
Dramatic monologues often reveal a character’s thoughts or feelings. With your partner or small group, read aloud the monologue again. Discuss what questions you have about the Duke’s thoughts and feelings. Write one question to share with the whole class.
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The speaker of the monologue could be described as lovesick because .
The speaker is and he calls music .
The speaker’s final attitude toward love is .
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