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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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    Dreams and Reality

    Use this Real-Life Lens Lesson to help students dive deep into Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream and examine and engage with the play through the lens of dreams and reality.

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    Poetic Meter and Social Class

    Students will identify poetic meter in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and explain how and to what effect Shakespeare uses poetic meter to create contrast between social classes and to create meaning in the text.

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    Themes in Michael Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream

    In this lesson, students will compare scenes in the text of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with scenes in the 1999 film by director Michael Hoffman to better understand how themes can be interpreted differently.

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    Order and Chaos

    Students will use this worksheet to examine the text in terms of order and chaos and summarize how the plot’s key action falls into these two categories.

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    Exploring Theme: Dreams

    Students will use this worksheet to analyze how the theme of dreams relates to other major themes in the play, including love, marriage, gender, and friendship.

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    Dreamer or Realist?

    Students will use this worksheet to locate and examine important quotes from the play in which characters discuss dreams.

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    Comedy or Tragedy?

    Students will use this worksheet to briefly review the dramatic conventions of comedy and tragedy as outlined in Aristotle's Poetics and to examine A Midsummer Night’s Dream for examples of each convention.

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    Doubling

    Students will use this worksheet to analyze doubling in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by comparing and contrasting humans and fairies and Athens and the fairy world.

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    Poetic Wordplay

    Students will use this worksheet to explore how Shakespeare uses wordplay, particularly puns, to add meaning and humor to A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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    Dreams and Dreaming: The Search for Understanding

    This handout gives students important background information on dreams and dreaming in the sixteenth century and how the topic continues to be explored today.

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    Dreamer or Realist?

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