A Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare Book Club

A Midsummer Night's Dream is Shakespeare's comedy about another group of star-crossed lovers, this time offered a happier ending by a couple of stubborn, magical fairies. Shakespeare's plays are required reading for a lot of high school students. It is the perfect story for group discussion and analysis because Shakespeare's language and word choices can be hard to appreciate and understand when reading alone.  

Students will read one act a week on their own time. Each act contains 1-2 scenes. A separate video will discuss each scene the student reads. I will also post a summary of each scene and a worksheet with vocabulary definitions to important words and phrases within the scene. I use the worksheets to address/remind the students of some of the important topics from each scene. The worksheets may also have space for short discussion questions and fill-in-the blank answers. 

Weekly Schedule Breakdown:
Students will receive access to new videos that discuss a different assigned scene. Students will receive a scene summary paragraph and a corresponding worksheet with vocabulary definitions, discussion questions and places for fill-in-the blank answers for each day. 

Once we have finished all of the scenes in the Act, students will have access to a Shakespeare related joke, pun, or optional activity. Finally, students are assigned a one-two page writing assignment focused around that week's act. I also post a link an optional online Kahoot! trivia game for the students to further immerse themselves in this week's reading before we move onto a new act the following week.