Pyramus and Thisbee Student Videos
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Unit 1: Pyramus and Thisbe
The play Pyramus and Thisbe as told by Ovid is the source for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The first activity will be to examine this play in translation (Garth, Dryden, et.al) and look at plot and theme. Then, students will construct and produce a contemporary version of this play. The final product from each group, a video, will be shown in class and posted on this website by January 11.
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Challenge:
Create a video adaptation of Pyramus and Thisbe. |
Common Core Reading Standards
Key Ideas and Details
1. Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. 2. Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. Craft and Structure 5. Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas 9. Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare). Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity 10. By the end of grade 9, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 9–10 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. |
General Instructions and Resources
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Schedule
January 14-In class will be an introduction to the unit.
Homework:
January 15-18--In class will be work time.
Send Planning and Report Form to Ms. Vest AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS. You should have this form completed through the end of the first DATE.
Homework:
January 22-24--In class work time
In class, you will have time to do filming and/or video editing. Use your time wisely since both of these are time-consuming tasks. Please be sure your group has arranged for equipment prior to class. Any equipment you need is your group's responsibility.
Homework:
January 25/Feb 1--In class work time period 6
January 25/Feb 4--In class work time period 1
In class, you may use the time to edit your video production, finalize your documentation, create a sound track, add credits to your film, work on your reflection, and complete any other details for the unit. All work is due AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS tomorrow. We will be showing the videos in class and discussing them.
You may also use this time to study vocabulary words from the list you have generated. You should also look at the lists of the other groups. You will have a multiple-choice test on these vocabulary words within the next 5 school days.
Homework:
Feb 5--In class viewing videos period 6 (videos due at beginning of class)
Feb 7--In class viewing videos period 1 (videos due at beginning of class)
REFLECTIONS DUE FEBRUARY 11
Homework:
- Read the directions for how to create a Google Doc to share.
- Download, share and complete Planning and Report Form through the end of the first section labeled DATE. The DATE should be January 14.
- Download and share PLOT AND THEME FORM. Be sure names of all people in your group are on the form.
- These forms must be completed by the BEGINNING OF CLASS ON JANUARY 15. For period 6, it is due by the end of the school day on January 16 since we have early release that day and you don't have class.
January 15-18--In class will be work time.
Send Planning and Report Form to Ms. Vest AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS. You should have this form completed through the end of the first DATE.
Homework:
- Complete PLOT AND THEME FORM. This is DUE ON JANUARY 22 AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS.
- Complete PLANNING AND REPORT SHEET each day. I will check this at the beginning of class each day. Be sure that your personal activities are reflected in the daily report. I will be assigning daily grades based on those reports. If you are absent for any reason, it is your responsibility to find out from your group what your job is for that day. If you cannot do that job on that day, you must see me immediately when you return to receive directions for makeup work.
January 22-24--In class work time
In class, you will have time to do filming and/or video editing. Use your time wisely since both of these are time-consuming tasks. Please be sure your group has arranged for equipment prior to class. Any equipment you need is your group's responsibility.
Homework:
- Work on videos.
January 25/Feb 1--In class work time period 6
January 25/Feb 4--In class work time period 1
In class, you may use the time to edit your video production, finalize your documentation, create a sound track, add credits to your film, work on your reflection, and complete any other details for the unit. All work is due AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS tomorrow. We will be showing the videos in class and discussing them.
You may also use this time to study vocabulary words from the list you have generated. You should also look at the lists of the other groups. You will have a multiple-choice test on these vocabulary words within the next 5 school days.
Homework:
- Finish anything not completed in this unit. ALL WORK IS DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR NEXT ENGLISH CLASS. Do not depend on others in your group to complete your work.
Feb 5--In class viewing videos period 6 (videos due at beginning of class)
Feb 7--In class viewing videos period 1 (videos due at beginning of class)
REFLECTIONS DUE FEBRUARY 11
- In class we will view all the videos and discuss them, particularly asking the following questions:
- Did the video capture the theme of the original version? What was the theme of this video?
- Did the video make the story contemporary? If so, how?
- What was the best thing about the video?
- What is the outline of the basic plot? (I may give a short test asking you to outline the plot of any of these videos. You may want to take notes.)
- You will have a test on vocabulary words and/or the plot of any of the videos produced.
- You are expected to hand in your REFLECTIONS by FEBRUARY 11. Send these to me by TUS email and LABEL IT REFLECTION.