I feel that the language of the Shakespeare is very interesting. The way how people back then use, it’s just so fascinating. The way he uses the words to emphasize the meaning is quite amazing and noticeable. The plot of the story is very unique and kind of ironic. It’s pretty original to see how Shakespeare combines a love story and a magical story together. The performances not so much, I don’t really how you have to go in front of the class and act out. It’s very scary. The performance for the movie was great! Lots of the stuff was irony. Like for an example when we thought Titania was going to yell, she was controlling her temper and not yelling.
The language of A Mid-Summer Nights Dream was quite confusing, and hard to get at first. As we went on with all the activities and lessons, I started to get it and understand what was going on in the story (this also helped me with the plot of the story). For example we made a “chat” with a partner in regular English (not Shakespeare). Then afterwards we had to translate what we said in Shakespeare language which was part fun, confusing, and knowledgeable. The plot of A Mid-Summer Nights Dream was a little bit easier to understand considering there was a thing on the top telling us what the setting kind of was. I liked the fact on how lots of shocking moments came out of the book. For example act 2 scene 1, when Tatiana accused Oberon of having an “affair” with Hippolyta. We were talking about this in one of our class discussions. The performances of A Mid-Summer Nights Dream were quite interesting, especially because we all had our own versions of the book in our own individual minds, plus we had our own fun entertaining skits. I’m sure everyone was shocked by the way the performance was either because of the way the acted it out, how they were dressed, they tone of voice that they used, and many other things.
I feel that Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream's language is very different, and I find it interesting on how different it is from the way we speak today. I like how it's different and I like the challenge of putting the words that don't really seem like they should be together all in one sentence.And I enjoy figuring out the meaning of the Shakespearian language.I find the plot to be kind of confusing at times while our companies are reading it at first. But then gradually figuring it out is exciting to me also. But the plot we are at now is quite dirty and sneaky. I'm also hencing some major drama to come later on in the book.But it makes me anxious to see what happens.I think that in our performances most of the groups are really starting to undertstand how the expressions are done, and they are good at acting it out as if they really were the characters in real life. So i'm excited to see what's coming next, and I hope it's going to be exciting and fun.
I think that the language of Shakespeare is interesting to learn about. It may be confusing at first when you're reading the book, but once you understand the actual meaning, it sets off a light bulb in your head. Learning any language different than modern English appeals to me. A bonus from reading A Midsummer Night's Dream is that you get to use vocabulary that almost no one understands, making you seem smarter than those that are left confused.
At first, I thought the plot for the story was kind of average to today's teen books. The conflicts that Hermia faces are very similar to dramatic love triangles in books for girls. Except for the death and nun part, of course. But, I like how Shakespeare ties in sneaky humour, magic, and even more situations on top of the several already existing ones. My mind is excited to find out more about the flower that Oberon wants Puck to fetch.
Our performances (I assume the recitations we did in class?), in my honest opinion, seemed all average with the exception of a few people who used more feeling in their lines than others. I think most of us were more focused on remembering the lines instead of the expression and delivery of the lines. I could've improved if I had taken our practice time more seriously. But, I really did enjoy the flow of a few groups.
A Mid-Summer Nights Dream is an interesting play that captures you in every scene. The first time I read it I couldn't understand any of the sentences. As we gone over the language it starts to be clear. Acting lines out and looking at different ways to say the word to mean different things is helping me in reading and understanding what the characters are implying. Emphasizing helps a lot to understand the feeling of the character. My interpretation of the movie is very similar to the book. All though some lines have been cut out I can see the directors interpretation on the book and compare it with mine. The movie make me want to read the book more and find out what happens next. I would still need more practice to clearly read Shakespeare's language.
The language used in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was very interesting to me. Surprisingly, there were only little differences with certain phrases and words between the language used back then and the one we use today. I actually see it as a perfect way to have a civilized sounding language.
Shakespeare's plot to me is an overall story of love. It seemed boring at first,since I've seen a lot of this kind of story. But the way each character had their own love story (Hermia and Lysander, Oberon and Titania, Helena and Demetrius) and the way they all connect with each other and disrupt each other makes this 400 year old story a lot more interesting than I thought.
Our performances could be better since much of the class (including me) needs some work on trying to bring out our character's feelings as we perform it. But that's understandable since everyone can be nervous sometimes. Overall, however, I feel we're doing well according to our varying volume, clear voices and putting effort into practicing our performances.
The language that Shakespeare uses is very unique and interesting because we don't talk like that anymore. I find the language to be kind of confusing at times because I am not quite familiar of it. However, I think it would be cool if we talked like that today. The plot of the story is enticing because the plot still happens today and people can relate to it. It is fascinating how Shakespeare combines a love story with mortals to fairies in a fairyland. I like the plot so far because it grabs the readers attention and the love triangle makes me want to read it more and more. Lastly, I think our performance in class was good but there is always room for improvement. I think we were loud enough for the audience to hear and we performed it well. But if I had to do it again I would put more emotion and feeling into delivering the lines. I was nervous at first because it was our first time doing this activity but it was also fun to see how different people interpreted the words of Titania.
The language in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is actually very interesting. At first it was very confusing to understand how to say it and what it meant. But after understanding a few words it's much easier to figure out what other words mean. And actually, I can see how Shakespearian language has influenced the modern english language.
The plot has many many themes. It's not a total love story in my eyes because the events that take place in the scenes actually draw my attention away from the character's romantic emotions and go right to all the tormenting things people are doing. I think the plot has to do with foolishness,manipulaitve love, and magic. Helena is foolish for throwing herself at Demetrius even though he doesn't love her. Oberon is manipulative of Titania because he sends Puck to get the love flower to make Titania love the next living creature she sees. There is a lot of magic put into this play but not always just cupid magic or fairy magic. Yes, Puck and Oberon's world is magic but in the first scene where Theseus and Hippolyta are anticipating their wedding, it almost seems magical so really, the kind of magic depends on the character. When we watched the movie, there was another theme that I saw that I didn't see in the play. Bottom seems to have some kind of dream. He seems to be constantly dreaming. He forgets about reality and is just really outgoing. It looks like there's something he wants to accomplish. So in the movie, I think dream is another theme; not in the play [yet?]. I really like how Shakespeare slips in crude humor that I wouldn't expect to see in a 400 year old book. I was very surprised to see that people back then found humor in the same thing we find humor in today. There's a lot of scandal and gossip in it too that makes it so much more interesting.
The performance could have been better. I have a problem with being serious and have emotion in my performances in front of class. I think if I understood the scene and subtext more, I could've done the performance much better. But I really liked how other groups had good emotion and hand movement in there performances. I really think they got the hang of the character and it even almost looked like they felt that they were Titania. It was interesting to see how different people interpreted Titania's emotions in their lines. Overall, I think we did good having good tone and varying our voices to fit the character but there is room for improvement.
Shakesphere's A Mid-Summer's Night Dream was confusing to understand in the beginning of the book. I felt confused at first because I really didn't have a general understanding of the plot and the Shakesperian language. When I first started to get a grasp on what was going on in the book was when we just got done with Act One, Scene Two and we transitioned into Act One, Scene One. It was as of then, I got the bigger picture of what was going on. Up until that point, I only knew about Puck meeting with the other actors, but not about the Fairyland and other things. The worksheets that Ms. Nagaji gave us helped me get a general description of what was going in the book. As for the Shakesperian language, I am still a little confused on what half of the words mean, but with the help of acting company members and the translation worksheet, I am starting to get the language a little better. It is interesting to me how much our language has changed that much over a spand of that time. Our preformances on reciting Titania's lines made me feel a little nervous, but some part of me wanted to go up and recite my lines. I think this preformance helped me to become less nervous for future preformances. It was interesting to me how other people interpreted the same lines differently. As of right now, I have a pretty good understanding of what is going on in the book right now. Shakesphere's A Mid-Summer's Night Dream is a good book and I can't wait to see what is going to happen next.
Shakespeare - A Mid-Summer's Night Dream, is really interesting. I honestly can say that, when we first started reading this book, i was totally bored, and thought it was going to be a terrible fourth quarter ending to the school year. I was wrong, because as we got into the acting, and learning more about Shakespeare, things got much better. The first line that I read made my tongue twist, because Shakespeare's language, is so different compared to now. Back then, things were much more complex, and now everything is simple making us look lazy. I'm happy I learned this new language, because I found so much new words and lines I can use on people who don't know Shakespeare and make them clueless. The plot is great, because something interesting is always happening between characters, leaving the readers on their toes. In Shakespeare I feel theres a bunch of little dramas, that happen in one big drama, and things just expand, and all have some kind of connecting point. I love the romance, magic, and fairy tales all put into this one book. It's great seeing these three different things all fit together in this book. I can't wait to go on. Mrs. Nagaji, makes us act out scenes from the act(s), which I think is very helpful, because by us acting it out, we get a better understanding of whats happening. I also enjoy acting out scenes and watching others perform the scenes, because you can also see other peoples view of the scene and compare what your thoughts with theres which is very helpful. It all helps us understand more. Im glad we are doing Shakespeare.
I feel that so far in, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the use of the Shakespearean dialogue has been very interesting to learn and hear. One of my favorite activities that we have done so far was translating the conversation we had about the book into Shakespearean dialogue. I liked this activity because it gave us the chance to better understand the sentence structure, and words from that time, which I believe, has ands will continue to benefit us greatly as we read the book.
I really enjoy the plot of this story, for the simple fact that you don’t know what will happen next. Shakespeare (in my opinion) is one of the best authors when it comes to keeping his audience on the edge of their seats. For proof of this you need not look farther than our own modern media, and you will find that many people tend to copy some of Shakespeare’s stories.
I especially though it was cool that we are able to act out some scenes from the play. Because it gives you a way better perspective on the story and what is really going on, because you are being placed in the position of one of the characters and this allows you to have a better view of how this character is feeling at a given time. In addition to this I feel that the class did a great job acting out our parts, and all in all I think we ended up having a bit of fun.
Shakespeare's famous play/movie/book, A Midsummer Night's Dream, is actually pretty fun to read. I like how they had different grammar structure compared to today's modern sentences. Even if they spoke English, it was almost the same as learning a foreign language to those who had a harder time adjusting to the change. Some of the words in the Shakespearean language even had a completely different usage and meaning than what we're familiar with. When I first read some of the lines, I couldn't get the words to come out as smoothly as I had planned. But as we read more from the book out loud in class, it gradually becomes easier.
In the beginning, I thought Shakespeare's writing would be the same as any other complex love story. Even so with magic being involved, the plot didn't seem very striking to me. That was, until I read ahead and saw what kind of twist he put into the characters' actions. It wasn't totally mind-blowing, but it still came as a surprise. I think it's more interesting than when I first started reading the book.
Our performances in class were both funny and boring. My favorite was when all the acting companies came up with their own variations to Shakespeare's Act one Scene one (Hermia and Lysander are forbidden to be together and so they plan to run away.) The scenes were all different yet the concept was the same. I actually enjoy practicing with my group and performing for the class because it gives us a chance to move around and pretend for a bit, rather than just idly sitting around discussing merely in words. There's always room for improvement in our acting though.
I felt that the language Shakesphere used was very difficult and confusing to understand. The language seems very different, yet similar to our modern day language. I also think that the language is very interesting because it sounds so similar to our language but it is difficult to understand. As we speak the Shakesphere's language, I feels like as if we were in the time when Shakesphere was still alive. Of course at first, it was really difficult to understand, but as we praticed this language in our Language Arts class, I feel that we understand the Shakesphere's language a little bit more.
I think that the plot, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was confusing at first, but it is becoming a litte more interesting as I get to understand the story. It is interesting how Shakesphere goes from mortals getting married with a lot of dramas going on, to fairies in a magic forest. I thought that this was going to be a simple love plot. It seems that the plot has many genres or themes. At first, there was romance and drama, then magic, and there might be even more!
I felt that the performances we did in Language Arts was on average. Everyone did a good job memorizing their lines, but I think that they should've showed more expressions and feelings to their lines. I think the reason why some people had a hard time showing expressions and feelings was because performing in front of people was hard and scary, like how I was. Or I feel that some people didn't even pratice as much and didn't care about this performing. But a few did a very good job on showing expressions and feelings to their lines. Their performances made it understandable for the audiences to understand what Titinia was feeling when saying those lines. But overall, everyone did a good job for our first performance.
I liked this part of the story. I thought it was very interesting and how the chararcters played it out. I loved how the chararcters put out there full emotion in the act and had love and anger mostly to it! I have been in that sort of situation. The language is very unique in our world today!! you dont find this language anywhere expect for if you want to look up for certain things. I love the plot because sometiimes you know exactly whats gonna happen and sometimes things just pop out beside the corner and you are very suprised. From what you read in the book and what you see in movies they can be a bit different!
With Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", it surprised me to know we were going to be reading this. It especially brought back memories of this play I saw some years ago called "A Midsummer Night's Madness". The language of Shakespeare is confusing, yet understandable to some extent. When you look at the translation, then it becomes a lot more clear about the meaning of Shakespearean language. It is what I call a monstrous little language. The performances could have used what my teacher Ms. Nakasone calls "passion". They could have put a bit more attitude and personality into their performances. As for the movie, it was not what I expected: it was even better!
The language in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is very interesting. In the beginning, it was really confusing. To fully understand what a character was trying to say, I needed to read a few words over and over again. That’s the fun part, though. Shakespeare’s language is like learning another language. When you learn it, you get a feeling of accomplishment; that you actually understand this type of language. Even though I still have difficult fluently understanding the language, it’s fun to use in everyday life. You get to see people’s confused reactions, but it’s fun when you have a conversation (with this language) with your peers, who knows exactly what you’re talking about.
I think the plot is like most books today, but it’s unique in its own way. The whole love “square” between Demetrius, Hermia, Lysander and Helena is like most situations today. This plot shows strong love is. As we keep reading into the book, the story is “heating up” and getting more interesting. One of my favorite parts of the plot is the sneaky body humor. This proves that it’s not just a love story, but it adds an extra touch to making the overall story enjoyable. I like when I get what Shakespeare was trying to intend when I see one of those jokes. I also like all the magic; it’s out of the ordinary and makes things more complicating. More complicating is better; it encourages the reader to read more.
I loved the fact we did performances. In other schools (and TV shows), I find people studying Shakespeare being bored. Acting gives my classmates and I an opportunity to enjoy and apply what we’re learning. When we had a substitute and we needed to make up a skit and modernize the language, was fun. My acting company and I put our heads together to come up with a successful, enjoyable version of that we were reading (Act 1, Scene 1). Even other times, when we did the recitations, gave us an opportunity to feel what the character is going through. The grading recited lines we needed to do were more challenging. To be honest, I was focusing more on memorizing the lines, than memorizing how the flow and mood of each word was supposed to be. Other than that, doing performances was overall a good learning experience.
For me the language, I was really mad at first. First of all, he kept on using terms that didn't make sense for the certain time period it was made for. But, then when we started to go deeper into it, the language started to make sense. That Shakespeare can be flexible, so it doesn't have to pertain to a certain time period. It can be used to the interpretation of the reader. Then when you speak in a Shakespearean speech, it’s really cool. Due to the fact that you sound fancier than everyone else with your “How is thy acquaintance feeling?” or “Why hath such pity on the one who dwells in thy cloister?” I would love to speak like that anytime in life.
Well another thing I really like is the plot of the whole story. It's so conflicting, meaning more DRAMA! With the love rectangle, where Demetrius loves Hermia, and she doesn't loves him. While Hermia loves Lysander. On the other hand is Helena who loves Demetrius, who hates her. It's so expressed on the tension between the four of them. Then there's the problem with Titania and Oberon. It's so full with drama, that I'm really excited to get to see what else comes up in the story. Finally is how Shakespeare can be so humorous, like with Puck’s mischievous deeds; for example tricking a fat horse, causing a lady to fall of a stool.
To perform Shakespeare, it's so exhilarating. With this it’s like another way for me to channel certain things. Next is that it’s so exciting to see other’s interpretation of one scene, or a certain segment of the scene. Like for example today, we had to have some sort of subtext when speaking Oberon’s over Titania (2.2.24-36). Then one acting company made it seem as revenge, while my acting company had it as a practical joke. Finally is that acting in front of everyone, can really help someone open up and feel welcome; or helping them becoming more brave and secure amongst us.
I think that the language of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is really confusing. I find the language really hard to understand because there is always like a hidden meaning in every sentence in the book. I also don’t understand a lot of the words they use in the book, which makes it even more difficult to understand what they are saying. Even after the lessons we were taught in class, I’m still having a hard time trying to understand some words and sentences. Even though I think the words and stuff is hard to understand. I think the story is interesting. I think it is interesting because the story has a lot of drama, magical fairies, runaway daughters , and Indian people. It’s also cool that Shakespeare could combine those things into one single story. The performances we did in class were interesting, because when we performed only one part of the story, we can see what other peoples points of views of the story.
Overall i think that Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is very interesting and creative. I love the language because it's a way of speaking that we arent used too and it makes it funny for us because all of us don't really know exactly what we are saying. The plot is what i think is the most creative part of the play, because there are so many problems and questions we are left with and just when we think we know where the play is going it changes direction. The performances are pleasant to do, i found myself more nervous reading my poem for Poetry Out Loud than reading Shakespeare, which makes me like Shakespeare much more.
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a very well written book in my mind. I used to be very interested in this time in history so i understand how important it was to sneak body humor into a play or poem. The language defiantly took some getting used to. I thought it would be easy but there are many different terms that can/ can't be used in different context. Along with the way they talk, the way that Shakespeare let the different ways of how the characters speak explain the plot in different ways. A lot of the story can be interpreted in different ways depending on how familiar a person is with the language and the different terms. The Different ways we performed the scenes out was very fun and informational in a way to learn more about the story, but when we came to watching the video, I was already familiar and it in turn made the movie less interesting to me. The lesson all together was very convivial and entertaining but it made the movie, for me, less of an attraction.
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I feel that the language of the Shakespeare is very interesting. The way how people back then use, it’s just so fascinating. The way he uses the words to emphasize the meaning is quite amazing and noticeable. The plot of the story is very unique and kind of ironic. It’s pretty original to see how Shakespeare combines a love story and a magical story together. The performances not so much, I don’t really how you have to go in front of the class and act out. It’s very scary. The performance for the movie was great! Lots of the stuff was irony. Like for an example when we thought Titania was going to yell, she was controlling her temper and not yelling.
The language of A Mid-Summer Nights Dream was quite confusing, and hard to get at first. As we went on with all the activities and lessons, I started to get it and understand what was going on in the story (this also helped me with the plot of the story). For example we made a “chat” with a partner in regular English (not Shakespeare). Then afterwards we had to translate what we said in Shakespeare language which was part fun, confusing, and knowledgeable.
The plot of A Mid-Summer Nights Dream was a little bit easier to understand considering there was a thing on the top telling us what the setting kind of was. I liked the fact on how lots of shocking moments came out of the book. For example act 2 scene 1, when Tatiana accused Oberon of having an “affair” with Hippolyta. We were talking about this in one of our class discussions.
The performances of A Mid-Summer Nights Dream were quite interesting, especially because we all had our own versions of the book in our own individual minds, plus we had our own fun entertaining skits. I’m sure everyone was shocked by the way the performance was either because of the way the acted it out, how they were dressed, they tone of voice that they used, and many other things.
I feel that Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream's language is very different, and I find it interesting on how different it is from the way we speak today. I like how it's different and I like the challenge of putting the words that don't really seem like they should be together all in one sentence.And I enjoy figuring out the meaning of the Shakespearian language.I find the plot to be kind of confusing at times while our companies are reading it at first. But then gradually figuring it out is exciting to me also. But the plot we are at now is quite dirty and sneaky. I'm also hencing some major drama to come later on in the book.But it makes me anxious to see what happens.I think that in our performances most of the groups are really starting to undertstand how the expressions are done, and they are good at acting it out as if they really were the characters in real life. So i'm excited to see what's coming next, and I hope it's going to be exciting and fun.
I think that the language of Shakespeare is interesting to learn about. It may be confusing at first when you're reading the book, but once you understand the actual meaning, it sets off a light bulb in your head. Learning any language different than modern English appeals to me. A bonus from reading A Midsummer Night's Dream is that you get to use vocabulary that almost no one understands, making you seem smarter than those that are left confused.
At first, I thought the plot for the story was kind of average to today's teen books. The conflicts that Hermia faces are very similar to dramatic love triangles in books for girls. Except for the death and nun part, of course. But, I like how Shakespeare ties in sneaky humour, magic, and even more situations on top of the several already existing ones. My mind is excited to find out more about the flower that Oberon wants Puck to fetch.
Our performances (I assume the recitations we did in class?), in my honest opinion, seemed all average with the exception of a few people who used more feeling in their lines than others. I think most of us were more focused on remembering the lines instead of the expression and delivery of the lines. I could've improved if I had taken our practice time more seriously. But, I really did enjoy the flow of a few groups.
A Mid-Summer Nights Dream is an interesting play that captures you in every scene. The first time I read it I couldn't understand any of the sentences. As we gone over the language it starts to be clear. Acting lines out and looking at different ways to say the word to mean different things is helping me in reading and understanding what the characters are implying. Emphasizing helps a lot to understand the feeling of the character.
My interpretation of the movie is very similar to the book. All though some lines have been cut out I can see the directors interpretation on the book and compare it with mine. The movie make me want to read the book more and find out what happens next. I would still need more practice to clearly read Shakespeare's language.
The language used in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was very interesting to me. Surprisingly, there were only little differences with certain phrases and words between the language used back then and the one we use today. I actually see it as a perfect way to have a civilized sounding language.
Shakespeare's plot to me is an overall story of love. It seemed boring at first,since I've seen a lot of this kind of story. But the way each character had their own love story (Hermia and Lysander, Oberon and Titania, Helena and Demetrius) and the way they all connect with each other and disrupt each other makes this 400 year old story a lot more interesting than I thought.
Our performances could be better since much of the class (including me) needs some work on trying to bring out our character's feelings as we perform it. But that's understandable since everyone can be nervous sometimes. Overall, however, I feel we're doing well according to our varying volume, clear voices and putting effort into practicing our performances.
The language that Shakespeare uses is very unique and interesting because we don't talk like that anymore. I find the language to be kind of confusing at times because I am not quite familiar of it. However, I think it would be cool if we talked like that today.
The plot of the story is enticing because the plot still happens today and people can relate to it. It is fascinating how Shakespeare combines a love story with mortals to fairies in a fairyland. I like the plot so far because it grabs the readers attention and the love triangle makes me want to read it more and more.
Lastly, I think our performance in class was good but there is always room for improvement. I think we were loud enough for the audience to hear and we performed it well. But if I had to do it again I would put more emotion and feeling into delivering the lines. I was nervous at first because it was our first time doing this activity but it was also fun to see how different people interpreted the words of Titania.
The language in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is actually very interesting. At first it was very confusing to understand how to say it and what it meant. But after understanding a few words it's much easier to figure out what other words mean. And actually, I can see how Shakespearian language has influenced the modern english language.
The plot has many many themes. It's not a total love story in my eyes because the events that take place in the scenes actually draw my attention away from the character's romantic emotions and go right to all the tormenting things people are doing. I think the plot has to do with foolishness,manipulaitve love, and magic. Helena is foolish for throwing herself at Demetrius even though he doesn't love her. Oberon is manipulative of Titania because he sends Puck to get the love flower to make Titania love the next living creature she sees. There is a lot of magic put into this play but not always just cupid magic or fairy magic. Yes, Puck and Oberon's world is magic but in the first scene where Theseus and Hippolyta are anticipating their wedding, it almost seems magical so really, the kind of magic depends on the character. When we watched the movie, there was another theme that I saw that I didn't see in the play. Bottom seems to have some kind of dream. He seems to be constantly dreaming. He forgets about reality and is just really outgoing. It looks like there's something he wants to accomplish. So in the movie, I think dream is another theme; not in the play [yet?]. I really like how Shakespeare slips in crude humor that I wouldn't expect to see in a 400 year old book. I was very surprised to see that people back then found humor in the same thing we find humor in today. There's a lot of scandal and gossip in it too that makes it so much more interesting.
The performance could have been better. I have a problem with being serious and have emotion in my performances in front of class. I think if I understood the scene and subtext more, I could've done the performance much better. But I really liked how other groups had good emotion and hand movement in there performances. I really think they got the hang of the character and it even almost looked like they felt that they were Titania. It was interesting to see how different people interpreted Titania's emotions in their lines. Overall, I think we did good having good tone and varying our voices to fit the character but there is room for improvement.
Shakesphere's A Mid-Summer's Night Dream was confusing to understand in the beginning of the book. I felt confused at first because I really didn't have a general understanding of the plot and the Shakesperian language. When I first started to get a grasp on what was going on in the book was when we just got done with Act One, Scene Two and we transitioned into Act One, Scene One. It was as of then, I got the bigger picture of what was going on. Up until that point, I only knew about Puck meeting with the other actors, but not about the Fairyland and other things. The worksheets that Ms. Nagaji gave us helped me get a general description of what was going in the book. As for the Shakesperian language, I am still a little confused on what half of the words mean, but with the help of acting company members and the translation worksheet, I am starting to get the language a little better. It is interesting to me how much our language has changed that much over a spand of that time. Our preformances on reciting Titania's lines made me feel a little nervous, but some part of me wanted to go up and recite my lines. I think this preformance helped me to become less nervous for future preformances. It was interesting to me how other people interpreted the same lines differently. As of right now, I have a pretty good understanding of what is going on in the book right now. Shakesphere's A Mid-Summer's Night Dream is a good book and I can't wait to see what is going to happen next.
Shakespeare - A Mid-Summer's Night Dream, is really interesting. I honestly can say that, when we first started reading this book, i was totally bored, and thought it was going to be a terrible fourth quarter ending to the school year. I was wrong, because as we got into the acting, and learning more about Shakespeare, things got much better. The first line that I read made my tongue twist, because Shakespeare's language, is so different compared to now. Back then, things were much more complex, and now everything is simple making us look lazy. I'm happy I learned this new language, because I found so much new words and lines I can use on people who don't know Shakespeare and make them clueless. The plot is great, because something interesting is always happening between characters, leaving the readers on their toes. In Shakespeare I feel theres a bunch of little dramas, that happen in one big drama, and things just expand, and all have some kind of connecting point. I love the romance, magic, and fairy tales all put into this one book. It's great seeing these three different things all fit together in this book. I can't wait to go on. Mrs. Nagaji, makes us act out scenes from the act(s), which I think is very helpful, because by us acting it out, we get a better understanding of whats happening. I also enjoy acting out scenes and watching others perform the scenes, because you can also see other peoples view of the scene and compare what your thoughts with theres which is very helpful. It all helps us understand more. Im glad we are doing Shakespeare.
I feel that so far in, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the use of the Shakespearean dialogue has been very interesting to learn and hear. One of my favorite activities that we have done so far was translating the conversation we had about the book into Shakespearean dialogue. I liked this activity because it gave us the chance to better understand the sentence structure, and words from that time, which I believe, has ands will continue to benefit us greatly as we read the book.
I really enjoy the plot of this story, for the simple fact that you don’t know what will happen next. Shakespeare (in my opinion) is one of the best authors when it comes to keeping his audience on the edge of their seats. For proof of this you need not look farther than our own modern media, and you will find that many people tend to copy some of Shakespeare’s stories.
I especially though it was cool that we are able to act out some scenes from the play. Because it gives you a way better perspective on the story and what is really going on, because you are being placed in the position of one of the characters and this allows you to have a better view of how this character is feeling at a given time. In addition to this I feel that the class did a great job acting out our parts, and all in all I think we ended up having a bit of fun.
Shakespeare's famous play/movie/book, A Midsummer Night's Dream, is actually pretty fun to read. I like how they had different grammar structure compared to today's modern sentences. Even if they spoke English, it was almost the same as learning a foreign language to those who had a harder time adjusting to the change. Some of the words in the Shakespearean language even had a completely different usage and meaning than what we're familiar with. When I first read some of the lines, I couldn't get the words to come out as smoothly as I had planned. But as we read more from the book out loud in class, it gradually becomes easier.
In the beginning, I thought Shakespeare's writing would be the same as any other complex love story. Even so with magic being involved, the plot didn't seem very striking to me. That was, until I read ahead and saw what kind of twist he put into the characters' actions. It wasn't totally mind-blowing, but it still came as a surprise. I think it's more interesting than when I first started reading the book.
Our performances in class were both funny and boring. My favorite was when all the acting companies came up with their own variations to Shakespeare's Act one Scene one (Hermia and Lysander are forbidden to be together and so they plan to run away.) The scenes were all different yet the concept was the same. I actually enjoy practicing with my group and performing for the class because it gives us a chance to move around and pretend for a bit, rather than just idly sitting around discussing merely in words. There's always room for improvement in our acting though.
I felt that the language Shakesphere used was very difficult and confusing to understand. The language seems very different, yet similar to our modern day language. I also think that the language is very interesting because it sounds so similar to our language but it is difficult to understand. As we speak the Shakesphere's language, I feels like as if we were in the time when Shakesphere was still alive. Of course at first, it was really difficult to understand, but as we praticed this language in our Language Arts class, I feel that we understand the Shakesphere's language a little bit more.
I think that the plot, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was confusing at first, but it is becoming a litte more interesting as I get to understand the story. It is interesting how Shakesphere goes from mortals getting married with a lot of dramas going on, to fairies in a magic forest. I thought that this was going to be a simple love plot. It seems that the plot has many genres or themes. At first, there was romance and drama, then magic, and there might be even more!
I felt that the performances we did in Language Arts was on average. Everyone did a good job memorizing their lines, but I think that they should've showed more expressions and feelings to their lines. I think the reason why some people had a hard time showing expressions and feelings was because performing in front of people was hard and scary, like how I was. Or I feel that some people didn't even pratice as much and didn't care about this performing. But a few did a very good job on showing expressions and feelings to their lines. Their performances made it understandable for the audiences to understand what Titinia was feeling when saying those lines. But overall, everyone did a good job for our first performance.
I liked this part of the story. I thought it was very interesting and how the chararcters played it out. I loved how the chararcters put out there full emotion in the act and had love and anger mostly to it! I have been in that sort of situation. The language is very unique in our world today!! you dont find this language anywhere expect for if you want to look up for certain things. I love the plot because sometiimes you know exactly whats gonna happen and sometimes things just pop out beside the corner and you are very suprised. From what you read in the book and what you see in movies they can be a bit different!
With Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", it surprised me to know we were going to be reading this. It especially brought back memories of this play I saw some years ago called "A Midsummer Night's Madness".
The language of Shakespeare is confusing, yet understandable to some extent. When you look at the translation, then it becomes a lot more clear about the meaning of Shakespearean language. It is what I call a monstrous little language.
The performances could have used what my teacher Ms. Nakasone calls "passion". They could have put a bit more attitude and personality into their performances. As for the movie, it was not what I expected: it was even better!
The language in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is very interesting. In the beginning, it was really confusing. To fully understand what a character was trying to say, I needed to read a few words over and over again. That’s the fun part, though. Shakespeare’s language is like learning another language. When you learn it, you get a feeling of accomplishment; that you actually understand this type of language. Even though I still have difficult fluently understanding the language, it’s fun to use in everyday life. You get to see people’s confused reactions, but it’s fun when you have a conversation (with this language) with your peers, who knows exactly what you’re talking about.
I think the plot is like most books today, but it’s unique in its own way. The whole love “square” between Demetrius, Hermia, Lysander and Helena is like most situations today. This plot shows strong love is. As we keep reading into the book, the story is “heating up” and getting more interesting. One of my favorite parts of the plot is the sneaky body humor. This proves that it’s not just a love story, but it adds an extra touch to making the overall story enjoyable. I like when I get what Shakespeare was trying to intend when I see one of those jokes. I also like all the magic; it’s out of the ordinary and makes things more complicating. More complicating is better; it encourages the reader to read more.
I loved the fact we did performances. In other schools (and TV shows), I find people studying Shakespeare being bored. Acting gives my classmates and I an opportunity to enjoy and apply what we’re learning. When we had a substitute and we needed to make up a skit and modernize the language, was fun. My acting company and I put our heads together to come up with a successful, enjoyable version of that we were reading (Act 1, Scene 1). Even other times, when we did the recitations, gave us an opportunity to feel what the character is going through. The grading recited lines we needed to do were more challenging. To be honest, I was focusing more on memorizing the lines, than memorizing how the flow and mood of each word was supposed to be. Other than that, doing performances was overall a good learning experience.
For me the language, I was really mad at first. First of all, he kept on using terms that didn't make sense for the certain time period it was made for. But, then when we started to go deeper into it, the language started to make sense. That Shakespeare can be flexible, so it doesn't have to pertain to a certain time period. It can be used to the interpretation of the reader. Then when you speak in a Shakespearean speech, it’s really cool. Due to the fact that you sound fancier than everyone else with your “How is thy acquaintance feeling?” or “Why hath such pity on the one who dwells in thy cloister?” I would love to speak like that anytime in life.
Well another thing I really like is the plot of the whole story. It's so conflicting, meaning more DRAMA! With the love rectangle, where Demetrius loves Hermia, and she doesn't loves him. While Hermia loves Lysander. On the other hand is Helena who loves Demetrius, who hates her. It's so expressed on the tension between the four of them. Then there's the problem with Titania and Oberon. It's so full with drama, that I'm really excited to get to see what else comes up in the story. Finally is how Shakespeare can be so humorous, like with Puck’s mischievous deeds; for example tricking a fat horse, causing a lady to fall of a stool.
To perform Shakespeare, it's so exhilarating. With this it’s like another way for me to channel certain things. Next is that it’s so exciting to see other’s interpretation of one scene, or a certain segment of the scene. Like for example today, we had to have some sort of subtext when speaking Oberon’s over Titania (2.2.24-36). Then one acting company made it seem as revenge, while my acting company had it as a practical joke. Finally is that acting in front of everyone, can really help someone open up and feel welcome; or helping them becoming more brave and secure amongst us.
I think that the language of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is really confusing. I find the language really hard to understand because there is always like a hidden meaning in every sentence in the book. I also don’t understand a lot of the words they use in the book, which makes it even more difficult to understand what they are saying. Even after the lessons we were taught in class, I’m still having a hard time trying to understand some words and sentences. Even though I think the words and stuff is hard to understand. I think the story is interesting. I think it is interesting because the story has a lot of drama, magical fairies, runaway daughters , and Indian people. It’s also cool that Shakespeare could combine those things into one single story. The performances we did in class were interesting, because when we performed only one part of the story, we can see what other peoples points of views of the story.
Overall i think that Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is very interesting and creative. I love the language because it's a way of speaking that we arent used too and it makes it funny for us because all of us don't really know exactly what we are saying. The plot is what i think is the most creative part of the play, because there are so many problems and questions we are left with and just when we think we know where the play is going it changes direction. The performances are pleasant to do, i found myself more nervous reading my poem for Poetry Out Loud than reading Shakespeare, which makes me like Shakespeare much more.
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a very well written book in my mind. I used to be very interested in this time in history so i understand how important it was to sneak body humor into a play or poem. The language defiantly took some getting used to. I thought it would be easy but there are many different terms that can/ can't be used in different context. Along with the way they talk, the way that Shakespeare let the different ways of how the characters speak explain the plot in different ways. A lot of the story can be interpreted in different ways depending on how familiar a person is with the language and the different terms. The Different ways we performed the scenes out was very fun and informational in a way to learn more about the story, but when we came to watching the video, I was already familiar and it in turn made the movie less interesting to me. The lesson all together was very convivial and entertaining but it made the movie, for me, less of an attraction.
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