Central to the theory is the belief that play is vital within a child’s learning, and places much emphasis on free-flow play. In 1997 she stated ‘When play is at its most fruitful, it is in ‘free-flow’. (1)…
I am Kaitlyn Luepann and I am portraying the fairy attendants Peaseblossom, Bottom, Cobweb, and the “jester fairy” Puck From William Shakespeare’s play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” I will be portraying all these characters as one character with characteristics of all four. The ways I am going to adapt the characters that I am portraying are for me to have a witty sense of humour, yet have common courtesy and manners, and have respectful body language and a humourous tone of voice because the three fairy attendants are very respectful, but Puck is humourous. How I adapt all of the fairies body language and tone of voice from the play to the modern day is to be a respectful Starbucks worker, who cracks jokes in a funny manner while customers…
(Scene opens: Everyone is laying on the ground, as though they are dead, focus on Hypnos.)…
A Midsummer Night Dream is a play written by the late William Shakespeare. This play is about a love triangle how one loves the other when the other does not like them until finally it all ends in a resolution, as they have a secret fairy world looking over at them, this play is almost like a mix between the fantasy world and the real! Bottom is one of the characters in this play, and in this play Bottom is a humorous and confident character, although being intelligent in other fields Bottom is not a very clever or educated man. Bottom and his fellow workmates are named the “rude mechanicals”, unsophisticated men but rather great tradesmen, working not with the mind but with the hands, though Bottom may be labeled a “rude mechanical” in many…
Tassion, P. and Baker, B. (2012) BTEC level 3 National in children’s play, learning and development student book 1. Edited by Gill squire, Harlow: Pearson…
In the Renaissance-era romantic comedy, "Twelfth Night", William Shakespeare presents to us an entertaining play riddled with humorous plots and, in some instances, comical and witty exchanges between the characters in the play. In a novel peppered with subtle notions of deceit and illusion, it is fascinating how some of the most revealing truths about the characters actually lie beneath the innocent banters. Under the influence of illusion and deception, the figures in the play are often lost in their own reverie, failing to realise the bare naked truths behind the events that have played out. An insightful judge of characters, Feste is both impudent and witty at the same time, neither mincing his words nor masking his emotions. It is perhaps due to his pragmatic nature that he is able to be so perceptive and astute in his judgment of the characters. His remark of Orsino's mind as one which is very opal only serves to prove the above-mentioned claim. Over the following paragraphs, I will endeavor to uncover the truth behind Feste's statement.…
For children with disabilities, joint attention is one of the most important social skill to learn. For Krystal, joint attention is one of the situations that she needs to put all her efforts in order to accomplish it. Mr. Collins and I were taking about the short span attention that Krystal is displaying. For example, if something is interesting for her, she can turn her head and pay attention, but if something is bore for her she turns her head to another place. In the classroom, when she needs to complete an assignment, we practice joint attention with her. We explained her the steps to follow in order to complete the assignment, sometimes she paid us attention, while in other times her head was looking other things. We were practicing…
Kayla’s dramatic play is highly imaginative and now has the structure of specific scenarios, like going to work or pretend to be a mother. She has begun to use a realistic body and facial parts and individual characteristics in her art pieces about people Kayla’s work sample created her family members with a head on top of her body and included long hair, two eyes, and a mouth. She has the ability to use a circle or triangle to emerge the body separate from the head. According to Nilsen during the Preschematic the Stage 4 to 7 years old “anatomical representations appear as the child is strivings for realism and gaining knowledge of gender differences”. This anatomical representation is visible in Kayla’s completed work sample and I feel there…
ACT I, SCENE I - Due Date ____________________ 1. How is Hippolyta’s reasoning concerning how quickly the next four days will pass different from that of Theseus? 2. Why has Egeus brought his daughter and her two suitors to Theseus? What does Egeus expect him to do? 3. What was the proper role for women/daughters in Athenian society according to Egeus and Theseus? 4. What is Theseus’s ruling concerning Hermia? 5. How does Lysander’s comment about Demetrius’s previous love affair with Helena complicate things? 6. What do Lysander and Hermia plan to do about this seemingly impossible situation? 7. Why do they tell Helena what they plan to do? 8. Even though Helena loves Demetrius and is Hermia’s best friend, why does she decide to tell Demetrius of Hermia and Lysander’s plans? ACT I, SCENE II - Due Date ____________________ 1. Why does Nick Bottom want to play all the parts? 2. How do you suppose the threat of being hanged if they scare the ladies will affect the artisans’ interpretation of the tragedy of Pyramus and Thisby? 3. In what way is this scene funny? Why do you suppose Shakespeare included this scene? 4. Where are the actors to meet the following night? Who else is meeting in these same woods at the same time? ACT II, SCENE I - Due Date ____________________ 1. What does the reader find out about the current relationship between Oberon, King of the Fairies, and Titania, Queen of the Fairies, from Puck and the first fairy? 2. How have Oberon and Titania been involved in the past with Theseus and Hippolyta, and why have they come to Athens? 3. What effect has their quarrel had on nature, on the seasons, on humans? 4. Why won’t Titania give up the changeling to Oberon? 5. What does Oberon send Puck to find? 6. What are Oberon’s plans for Titania? 7. How does Helena react to Demetrius’s verbal abuse? 8. What is her response to his threats of physical abuse? 9. In what way is Helena’s behavior inappropriate for Athenian…
I am observing her while she is doing her homework. She is studying for the state testing which will be taking place in April. She truly demonstrates her cognitive skills by her studying methods and by how well her memory is able to quickly retain the information that she is studying. Due to her early education she is able to learn new words, which depicts the finer motor skills in child development that is more often found in girls. Aliyah is excited that she only has 4 pages of homework to do; she smiles gently at her mother who is helping her. Aliyah demonstrates the child functions that relate to the theories of middle childhood that are listed below.…
Like most of Shakespeare’s heroines, Viola is a tremendously likable figure. She has no serious faults, and we can easily discount the peculiarity of her decision to dress as a man, since it sets the entire plot in motion. She is the character whose love seems the purest. The other characters’ passions are fickle: Orsino jumps from Olivia to Viola, Olivia jumps from Viola to Sebastian, and Sir Toby and Maria’s marriage seems more a matter of whim than an expression of deep and abiding passion. Only Viola seems to be truly, passionately in love as opposed to being self-indulgently lovesick. As she says to Orsino, describing herself and her love for him:…
When Titania argues with Oberon about ownership of the Indian boy, their relationship is not only affected, but the society is affected negatively as well. The argument over the Indian boy causes major difficulties in the weather and seasons. Titania defying her gender role also causes problems because she is not obeying the demands of her husband whom she should. She “ha[s] forsworn his bed and company,” which means she rejects his bed and company and refuses to sleep with Oberon (2.1 64). “Am I not thy lord,” shows Oberon nonexistent love life and his enable to control his wife (2.1 65). She said the arguments are just “forgeries of jealousy,” meaning that Oberon is jealous about the ownership of the Indian boy, and his absent love life. She points out that,“never, since the middle summer spring,/ [have the fairies and Titania] met on a hill.../” to performed their usual dances because “thy brawls thou hast disturbe[s] our sport.” Before summer, Titania and her fairies would perform a “dance...to the whistling winds,” but since they cannot perform their harmonious dance, the seasons are now unpredictable. The arguments between Titania and Oberon have disturbed the ritual. Therefore, the winds are angry at the disturbances, so with vengeance, the winds “suck[s] up from the sea/ contagious fog,” which causes all the rivers to “overborne their continent.” As a result, “the ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn/ hath rooted ere his youth attain[ing] a bread.” “Green corn” symbolizes immature grains “attaining a bread” which means the immature grains are rotting before they were are ripened. Because of the disagreement, “fold stand empty in the drownèd fields,” and “the quaint mazes in the wanton green lack treads,” which are “undistinguishable.” This means that the ingenious path in the luxuriant grass have faded away because no one is treading on…
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies is generally thought of as a romantic comedy. The play involves a number of romantic components, it is not actually a love story; it distances the audience from the emotions of the characters in order to poke fun at the torments and afflictions that those in love suffer. Factors that make the play fit into the genre are the troubles of humans and magic. This magic creates conflicts that despite the fantasy of it all are still relevant. Shakespeare uses the setting in the play to start and manipulate these conflicts. This is a light-hearted, loving, and humorous romantic comedy.…
She told her doll that it was okay, don’t worry, she knows that it was an accident and then kissed the doll. Once she was finish changing the baby doll she then asked the doll if she was still hungry. She responded for the doll in another tone of voice saying, “Yes mommy!” She then placed the doll back with the other two dolls on the floor, in a circle. My daughter went back to her kitchen set and grabbed 3 bowls, 3 plates, spoons, cups and placed fake food on each dish. She then put the dishes in front of eat doll, sat down with them and started feeding them. She told her babies that they must eat all their food before they can have a goodie. These are things we would say to her when it is dinner time. She asked them how it taste and she made a response for all three baby dolls. My observation of my daughter make believe play was very interesting, she could understand the random questions I asked her and discussed the reasons(purpose) for what she was doing. I can tell she enjoyed playing the mommy role and caring for her “babies.” Based on my observation of my daughter, her Play becomes less self-centered because she does not focus on self but focusses on her baby…
Unlike A Midsummer Night’s Dream, each of the cross-dressing characters does so as the result of conscious decision (as opposed to magical influence) and in order to attain a goal. While there are certainly a number of disguises in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” there are different motivations for characters wearing them. For Viola, her reasons for dressing as a young man are clear since she wants to be able to make a living in the new land she has found herself inhabiting. Although it may be a bit farcical because she may have just as easily found employment without resorting to such extreme measures, she nonetheless is resolute in her decision to seek out Orsino. At the moment of her decision she boldly states, Viola fresh off the ship: “Conceal me what I am, and be my aid / For such disguise as haply shall become / the form of my intent” (I.ii.49-51). It is important to note that she directly refers to her disguise as being related to intent and this intentional disguise is a theme that continues throughout “Twelfth Night” by William Shakespeare.…