Y6 – ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ – Shakespeare

WALT: to explore how the row

between Titania and Oberon is
affecting the human world

WILF: explain and explore what has

happened and who is to blame?
Tasks in PURPLE – I must complete.
Tasks in GREEN – I can challenge myself to complete
these if I have time.
Do Now: Write down 5 qualities the Fairy King and Queen need to have
and why. Titania Oberon

Beautiful because Handsome because

she is the most he is… Royalty
magical of the
fairies
Kind because a queen would
usually be kind to her
subjects

Should the qualities only be positive ones? Why? Why not?

 Titania and Oberon have been arguing are NOT happy to see each
other…

What technique is this?

What do they mean?

‘What, jealous Oberon! ’ ‘Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.’

What is the key word in each of these statements? Why?

What would this show a Shakespearean audience about the fairy and human world?
On the surface, they are arguing about the little boy Titania
is looking after – Oberon wants him as his servant because
Titania is giving too much attention to him!

So what are
they REALLY
arguing about?

How does Shakespeare show this argument relates to the human world?
 The problem is…what happens in the fairy word upsets the balance
of the natural world and then affects the humans and their lives
Watch this: https://video.link/w/3cExc
In your breakout rooms, work your way through slides 6-11.

• Use the pictures to help you work out how the humans world is affected
by the fairies’ argument

• Identify the technique that is underlined

• Explain how the technique shows how bad life is for the humans.

• Identify and explain the second underlined technique for a

challenge!

Choose from the following techniques:

Alliteration (sibilance)
Verb Adjective Metaphor Personification Imagery of the senses
 1. Use the pictures to help you work out how the humans world is affected by
the fairies’ argument
2. Identify the technique that is underlined
3. Explain how the technique shows how bad life is for the humans.

‘Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain,

As in revenge, have suck'd up from the sea
Contagious fogs; which falling in the land
Have every pelting river made so proud
That they have overborne their continents:’
1. The weather has become more overpowered

2. Sea level has risen

3. Contagious fog Pelting= bombard repeatedly

• Identify and explain a second underlined technique for a challenge!

 1. Use the pictures to help you work out how the humans world is affected by
the fairies’ argument
2. Identify the technique that is underlined
3. Explain how the technique shows how bad life is for the humans.

‘The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain,

The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn
Hath rotted ere his youth attain'd a beard;’

1. The corn has rotted

2.

3.

• Identify and explain a second underlined technique for a challenge!

 1. Use the pictures to help you work out how the humans world is affected by
the fairies’ argument
2. Identify the technique that is underlined
3. Explain how the technique shows how bad life is for the humans.

‘The fold stands empty in the drowned field,

And crows are fatted with the murrion flock’

1.

2.

3. Murrion= diseased

• Identify and explain a second underlined technique for a challenge!

 1. Use the pictures to help you work out how the humans world is affected by
the fairies’ argument
2. Identify the technique that is underlined
3. Explain how the technique shows how bad life is for the humans.

‘The nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud,

And the quaint mazes in the wanton green
For lack of tread are undistinguishable:’

1.

2.

3.

• Identify and explain a second underlined technique for a challenge!

 1. Use the pictures to help you work out how the humans world is affected by
the fairies’ argument
2. Identify the technique that is underlined
3. Explain how the technique shows how bad life is for the humans.

‘Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,

Pale in her anger, washes all the air,
That rheumatic diseases do abound:’

1.

2.
Rheumatic = pain in your joints,
Often made worse by damp and
3. Cold weather

• Identify and explain a second underlined technique for a challenge!

 1. Use the pictures to help you work out how the humans world is affected by
the fairies’ argument
2. Identify the technique that is underlined
3. Explain how the technique shows how bad life is for the humans.

‘And thorough this distemperature we see

The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
Far in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,
And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown
An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds’

1.

2. Hoary – grey/white (like frost)

Hiems: the Roman God of
3. winter

• Identify and explain a second underlined technique for a challenge!

Titania admits that both herself and Oberon are to blame
for affecting the humans – can you see the pronoun?
And this same progeny of evils comes Progeny – descended from
From our debate, from our dissension;
We are their parents and original. Dissension - disagreement

Oberon doesn’t! The first thing he says to her after this speech is…
Do you amend it then; it lies in you:
Amend – make better
Henchman – faithful
Why should Titania cross her Oberon?
follower I do but beg a little changeling boy,
To be my henchman.

What is different about Oberon’s use of pronouns? What does this show about the King?
How would the actor playing Oberon deliver the lines? Can you link back to your ‘Do Now’ activity?
Think back to your ‘Do Now’ activity…
Are either Titania or Oberon acting like you think they should?

How is this going to be resolved? Can the humans do anything?

Type in the chat discussion – who do you blame and
why?
I blame … because …

Can you link to what a Shakespearean audience would have thought about who is to blame and how to fix it?