Midsummer+Night's+Dream+Homework

===__Research__ information about //A Midsummer Night's Dream// and create a __poster__ or __Glog__ about it. Make sure you're finding out unique information and not just the first wikipedia entry you come across. Use the //references// from wikipedia if you must!!===

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1. Pick four words from your worksheet (available below if you have lost) that are insults or you find interesting, but do not know the meaning of.

a) Used to be young, fertile and beautiful. Has now started to rot, smell and lose her beauty. She will soon be useless to everyone. b) She is an agent of infection - she has the ability to infect and contaminate beautiful, living things and make them slowly die.
 * Write the word --> Then the definition of it --> Then //analyse//it. What does it suggest? Why is it effective?
 * EG - Cankerblossom - decaying flower, or that which infects and decays a flower - This couls suggest that Hermia:

Try to analyse the words in as many different ways as possible.

2. Write Hermia’s and Helena’s diaries that evening. You will need to write about what has happened to them (remember they do not know about the potion) and how they feel about the events of the night.
 * Focus on their thoughts and feelings. They will both be confused, so communicate this.
 * Think about anything else from earlier on in the play that may affect their thoughts or feelings.
 * Helena may suddenly feel beautiful and Hermia ugly for the first time in their lives.
 * Explore their confusion about the whole scenario!

Copy of the text to focus on:

Lysander to Hermia: Thou cat! Thou burr! Vile thing! Tawny Tartar! Loathed medicine! Hated potion! I never did desire to see thee more. I do hate thee and love Helena. Get you gone, you dwarf; You minimus, of hind'ring knot-grass made; You bead, you acorn.

Hermia to Helena: You juggler! You cankerblossom! You thief of love! And are you grown so high in Lysander’s esteem Because I am so dwarfish and so low? How low am I, thou painted maypole? Speak. How low am I? I am not yet so low But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes. Helena to Hermia: You counterfeit! You puppet! <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms'; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">O, when you are angry, you are keen and shrewd; <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms'; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">You were a vixen when we went to school; <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms'; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">And, though you be but little, you are fierce