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ACTIVITY 3.4
Interact in Meaningful Ways: Academic Collaboration
Learning Targets
• Ask and answer questions about a dramatic scene in collaborative conversations, demonstrating active listening, and drawing upon an expanding pool of language resources for discussing literature.
• Express and support opinions of a dramatic scene in conversation.
Turn to your partner or small group to discuss each question about the scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. After you have discussed a question, write notes about your answer before going on to the next question.
1. As the scene opens, what does Hermia accuse Helena of coming to do? Explain in your own words.
2. In what key physical way must the actors who play Hermia and Helena differ from one another? How does Hermia seem to feel about this difference?
Hermia accuses Helena of coming to .
Compared to Hermia, Helena must be .
3. How does Helena react when Hermia threatens physical violence?
4. How do the multiple meanings of high and lower add to the humor of the scene?
When Hermia threatens Helena with violence, Helena .
It’s funny when Helena says Hermia is lower because .
asking Questions
Much of this scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a series of insults exchanged between Hermia and Helena. With your partner or small group, skim through the scene and list some of the insults you find. In your own words try to explain what the insults mean. Write one question about an insult you don’t understand to share with the whole class.
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