What News Does Bottom Bring His Companions

English KS2 / KS3: A Midsummer Night'south Dream. 5: Oberon'due south Revenge

Titania falls in love with Bottom transformed into a donkey...and Oberon discovers Puck'southward mistake.

v: Oberon's Revenge

Mistress Quince and her troupe of amateur actors meet in the forest to rehearse their play for the Knuckles'south wedding ceremony. While waiting offstage for his cue, Bottom has his head transformed into that of a ass past the mischievous Puck. His companions flee in terror when they come across him but Bottom, thinking that they are playing a flim-flam on him, walks through the wood singing as he goes, to show that he is non afraid. He strays into the sleeping Titania, whereupon she wakes, sees him - and instantly falls in love!

Puck tells Oberon what has happened, much to their mutual delight. Hermia and Demetrius pass shut by. Hermia suspects that Demetrius is somehow responsible for Lysander'due south earlier disappearance and pleads with him to tell her where he is. When Demetrius cannot, she runs off to try to notice him herself, whereupon Demetrius lays down to slumber.

Oberon, seeing all this, realises that Puck must take used the magic flower on some other Athenian. He commands Puck to find Helena and bring her to Demetrius, whose eyes he will charm to fall in love with her when she appears.

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Activities - KS2

This episode sees all three groups of characters in the woods past night (lovers, fairies and mechanicals). For a drama practise in that location could be a word well-nigh how these different characters might movement around the space - eg:

Oberon and Titania walking tall
the lovers either existence lost or in a bustle
the mechanicals being out of their element and easily spooked The teacher could assign pupils a number (1 for fairies, 2 for lovers and 3 for mechanicals) and go them to move around the space every bit their characters, then get them to change roles.

This episode besides sees the characters experience many unlike emotions - eg:

Bottom (when transformed) is confused
the rest of the mechanicals are terrified
Puck is amused
Oberon is furious
Lysander is yearning with love when he arrives
Helena is confused, frustrated and annoyed A comprehension exercise could involve matching characters to different emotions at unlike points in the episode.

A discussion could take identify around why Puck puts a ass head on Bottom? Is information technology funny or scary, or both?

Every bit an art do, pupils could also produce sketches of Bottom with different transformed heads, from the funniest to the nigh terrifying.

Activities - KS3

Students could be asked to mind map Hermia's feelings in this episode and explain why she feels the ways she does.

They could and then write a PEE paragraph in answer to the question: "How is Hermia presented in Episode five?" Students could and so self-assess their paragraphs based on agreed success criteria and make corrections and / or improvements in response to peer assessment.