Loading...

Introducing Twelfth Night & Act I, Scene I
Lesson 1 of 14
Objective: SWBAT identify themes and characters in Twelfth Night and will perform a close reading of Orsino's speech in Act I, Scene I.

Latin Roots Warm Up
This is our daily warm up, wherein students work with two or three Latin roots per day. The resource that I use to get my roots is Perfection Learning's Everyday Words from Classic Origins.
Every day, when the students arrive, I have two Latin roots on the SmartBoard. Their job is to generate as many words as they can that contain the roots, and they try to guess what the root means. After I give them about five minutes, we share words and I tell them what the root means.
The students compile these daily activities in their class journals. After every twelve roots, they take a test on the roots themselves and a set of words that contains them.
Resources (1)
Resources (1)
Resources
To kick off this, our second Shakespeare of the year, I show the students this Twelfth Night Introductory Power Point that I pulled together from a variety of sources. [Please note that the Folger has the best Shakespeare resources; if there is a good idea in this lesson, you can bet that it came out of a Folger class that I took many years ago, or I read it in a Shakespeare Set Free book or online.]
So, we talk about what to expect in the play, Twelfth Night and I "talk up" all of the fun we are going to have. Though it is not a new movie, many of my (female) students have seen "She's the Man," so they have some idea of what the plot is all about.
While I am talking, students take notes on the characters and say smart things like "Oh, Malvolio. Remember there was a Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet? And bene means good and mal means bad? (Thank you, Latin root study!)
Resources (1)
Resources (1)
Resources
Similar Lessons
Interpreting Symbolic Images Embedded in the Words of Kate Chopin, Langston Hughes and Dylan Thomas
Environment: Urban
Environment: Suburban
Mystery Creatures Discovered... AAAHHH, It's a Spider!
Environment: Suburban
- UNIT 1: Narrative Poetry
- UNIT 2: Romeo and Juliet
- UNIT 3: Flowers for Algernon
- UNIT 4: Nature, Naturalism, and The Call of the Wild
- UNIT 5: Science Fiction
- UNIT 6: Unlocking Mood and Other Elements of Horror
- UNIT 7: Short Stories, Plays, and Elements of Fiction
- UNIT 8: Twelfth Night, or What you Will
- UNIT 9: Looking through the Lens of the First Person Narrator
- UNIT 10: Tangerine, by Edward Bloor
- UNIT 11: Censorship in 2013: Gearing up for Banned Books Week
- UNIT 12: Close Reading
- UNIT 13: Student-Created Essays and Creative Writing
- UNIT 14: Those Pesky Grammar and Language Lessons
- UNIT 15: Vocabulary Lessons and Resources
- UNIT 16: A Separate Peace
- UNIT 17: Mini Unit: Academic Dishonesty
- UNIT 18: Independent Reading
- LESSON 1: Introducing Twelfth Night & Act I, Scene I
- LESSON 2: Structure and Content: Two Versions of the First Two Scenes
- LESSON 3: Willow Cabin Speeches...Build me a...
- LESSON 4: Should Shakespeare be Required Reading? Let's Debate! Day 1
- LESSON 5: Should Shakespeare be Required Reading? Let's Debate! Day 2
- LESSON 6: Dear Mabby
- LESSON 7: Recapping Act II & Moving Into Act III
- LESSON 8: Twelfth Night Sonnets: Drafting
- LESSON 9: 12th Night Sonnets- Peer Editing and Finalizing
- LESSON 10: Graphic Organizer Cumulative Activity
- LESSON 11: Acting Companies, Day 1
- LESSON 12: Acting Companies, Rehearsals and Dress Rehearsal (Days 2-4)
- LESSON 13: The Big Show: Performing in Acting Companies
- LESSON 14: Shakespeare's Birthday, April 23