Puck’s Final
Monologue
Reflective/Opening Question:
Answer in this textbox:
Share an experience
that felt like a dream, or
share one that was a
dream that felt very real.
Learning Target: I can define and use
vocabulary and terminology that is based
on context and text type.
Historical Definitions
Original Word
Meanings
1. Shadows
Actors OR supernatural spirits
2. Theme
Play OR subject
3. Gentles
Ladies and Gentlemen
4. Serpent’s Tongue
Hissing (Elizabethan version of booing)
5. Scape
Escape
For this
assignment...
Please use www.dictionary.com
to complete the following slides
More Definitions- Complete on your own!
Original Word
1. Mend
2. Slumber
3. Yield
4. Reprehend
5. Amends
Meanings
An interpretation
Royal Shakespeare Company
https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=Jh27CeneQ0c
Puck: If we shadows have offended
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
if you pardon, we will mend:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.
Share question:
Who is Puck speaking
to?
Why did Shakespeare
choose to end the play
like this?
Answer in this textbox:
Metanarrative:
A narrative account that experiments
with or explores the idea of
storytelling, often by drawing attention
to its own artificiality.
Metanarrative:
In other words: Bringing the audience
attention to the fact that the play IS a
play.
Consider:
Shakespeare repeatedly reminds us that the
line between reality and fantasy is blurry. There
is a play within the play, and the characters
themselves are unsure if what they experienced
was a dream or a reality.
Share question:
Read the monologue once
again. What word choices
and connotation help
Shakespeare create a
sense of an uncertain
reality? Cite three
examples
Answer in this textbox:
1.
2.
Work on questions in group:
Answer the questions in
the attached doc in your
groups. We will time
discussions and follow
directions.
Close/Exit slide:
Write a paragraph describing
a fictional surreal or
dreamlike school day. Use
appropriate connotation to
make the reader question if
the experience was real or a
dream
Answer in this textbox: