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Goal:  Understand how Pyramus and Thisbe story can be incorporated into your final Humanities Essay

1.  Read the following document and write down questions that arise as you read:
https://drive.google.com/a/animashighschool.com/file/d/0BxmnlXt_7UBOajhLRDZqUkRJN0U/view?usp=sharing

2.  Discuss in pairs or groups of 3 the following questions:
a.  What do you think the purpose of this story was for the people who told it?  Was it a warning to young lovers who disobey their parents?  A dramatization/romanticization of naive infatuation?  A mythical legend to explain the color of the mulberry tree?  What else?

b.  This story is beautifully written.  With your small group, go through and find three sentences that are particularly moving.  What literary techniques is the storyteller using?  Name them (if you need to, do some independent research).

c.  As a group, generate three seminar questions on the text: you can generate questions about the story itself, or about the story's connections to how the story is used in a Midsummer Night's Dream.

3.  Large group seminar

4.  Independent worktime (essay, line memorization, production role work)