Making New Insults

In the scene we read today, the ladies use words like "juggler" and "cankerblossom" and "puppet" to insult one another.  See if you can be like Shakespeare and invent new insults.  I want you to write five sentences that include an "invented" insult.  Three of the sentences must also include vocabulary words from Ch. 2.

Setting Shakespeare

Adapt the scene we blocked in class today (where Lysander hits on Helena and then Demetrius steps in to hit on her too and then Hermia shows up, confused), by creating a new setting for the scene that would add to its humor.  For example, today I had the scene set in modern times in the Kinkaid library with teenagers as the lovers.  Where would you set Act 3, Scene 2?  Who would be the lovers? Why?

Dream World

Midsummer has several references to dreams; the word itself appears in the play 16 times.  Titania and Hermia both have crazy dreams.  Strange dreams can be the most profound, predictive, or helpful when they seem most bizarre.  Describe a weird dream you've had.  Did this dream become useful or predictive in your life?  Could you relate the dream to anything that happened in your actual life?  In your response, please use at least 3 words from Ch. 1 in Vocabulary Energizers II.

How to....(with Vocab)

Please enter your paragraph in a comment.  You must use 10 vocabulary words from Ch. 9 and 10 correctly to tell someone how to:

1. build the best peanut butter sandwich ever
2. drive very badly
3. get out of trouble with your parents
4. embarrass your English teacher
5. steal your friend's significant other

The Landscape of Suffering

God points to the great mysteries of nature in his response to Job in the Bible.  In Tree of Life, we often see shots of Sean Penn's character, who is suffering still from the loss of his brother, standing in the middle of strange or vast landscapes in which he feels and looks small.  If you had to paint or picture a landscape that works as a metaphor for your own personal suffering, what would you choose--ocean, desert, glacial plain, etc.--and why?