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TARGET. To apply our skills in P-E-E paragraphing to the opening scenes of the play. P-E-E Paragraphing. POINT – EVIDENCE – EVALUATION Look at Act 1, Scene 1 and Act 2, Scene 1 (lines 190-244)
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TARGET... • To apply our skills in P-E-E paragraphing to the opening scenes of the play.
P-E-E Paragraphing • POINT – EVIDENCE – EVALUATION • Look at Act 1, Scene 1 and Act 2, Scene 1 (lines 190-244) • For each character, find two quotes that tell you something important about the type of person they are. • For each quote, write a P-E-E paragraph explaning what we can tell about them from what they say.
Quotes THESEUS: Demetrius is a worthy gentleman. HERMIA: So is Lysander. HERMIA: The worst may befall my in this case if I refuse to marry Demetrius. HERMIA: I refuse to wed Demetrius! LYSANDER: I am, my Lord, as well deserved as he. LYSANDER: You hath her father’s love, Demetrius. Let me have Hermia. Do you marry him? HELENA: Use me as your spaniel. Spurn me. Strike me. HELENA: O that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill! HELENA: I’ll follow thee, and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well. EGEUS: Full of vexation come I, with complaint against my daughter, Hermia. EGEUS: As she is mine, I shall dispose of her. Which shall be either to this gentleman or to her death. DEMETRIUS: For I am sick when I do look on thee. LYSANDER (ABOUT DEMETRIUS): Demetrius, I’ll avouch it to his head, Made love to Nedar’s daughter, Helena. (proving that he has switched from Helena to Hermia) DEMETRIUS: Relent, sweet Hermia, and Lysander yield…Thy crazed title to my certain right.
EXTENSION TASK Dear Agony Aunt…… Look at Act 1 Scene 1, lines 180-201. What are Helena’s problems? Write a letter from Helena to a problem page in which she speaks about her love for Demetrius and compares her own physical appearance to Hermia’s.