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Sample Lesson Sample lesson Year 8 unit: The Tempest Lesson 21: Caliban’s Dream In this lesson, students will be mastering the following: Mastery Content: • Caliban has a sensitive side • Caliban loves the island • Caliban can be seen as a victim Mastery Content Do now: dual nature How do you want students to Students revisit the phrase ‘dual nature’ as it applied to Sherlock Holmes. record this? In books, on MWB? Recap the definition. Caliban’s dual nature Introduce the plot to kill Prospero. Caliban has a dual nature. First look at the murderous side – Caliban is violent and savage. Caliban’s dream Page 93 Recap the plot, as Caliban leads Stephano and Trinculo towards Prospero’s How do you want to manage cell to murder him. As they do so, Ariel appears and makes strange sounds reading of the script? Do you to scare Stephano and Trinculo. Caliban tries to calm them. want to be the director, Read the passage. There are some comprehension questions following the allocating roles? Or do you want extract to allow you to check students’ understanding. students to read in groups? You might want to read the summary to the class before reading each page so that students are familiar with what they are about to encounter. Consider how you will make the most use of reading time in class. Caliban’s dream – a closer look Resource: Caliban’s dream This extract is a famous part of the play and begins to show the sensitive and You may want to ask students to vulnerable side of Caliban. Students need to re-read the extract again using take notes on this resource in the resource. This will require students to think more closely about words and pairs instead of individually. phrases and how they portray Caliban’s character. You may want to adjust the resource to direct students’ attention to different words and Lesson Guide phrases. Caliban’s dream Students need to write independently about how the extract has changed their views of Caliban. Mastery assessment plenary How do you want to capture Students complete quiz. understanding? Mini If all correct, do extension by asking students to turn a wrong answer into a whiteboards? right one. If incorrect, address misconception and explain correct Physical ‘tickets’? answer/get other student to explain correct answer. Hand signals? Cold calling? Sherlock Holmes had a dual nature. Do Now What does it mean to have a ‘dual nature’? Extension: What was Holmes’ ‘dual nature’? Sherlock Holmes had a dual nature. If you have a ‘dual nature’, there are two Do Now sides to your character. There were two sides to Sherlock Holmes: • the quiet, introspective, thoughtful side, and • the manic, energetic, detecting side. Today, we will be returning to Plot 3: the plot to kill Prospero The Tempest Stephano, a Trinculo, a Caliban drunken butler jester Caliban also has a dual nature. We are going to look at Caliban’s dual nature today. In pairs, come up with as many answers for this question as you can: Why would an Caliban audience dislike and hate Caliban? Caliban Here are some reasons an audience might dislike Caliban. • He is disgusting • He is rude • He curses a lot • He tried to assault Miranda • He does not feel any regret for wanting to assault Miranda • He wants to kill Prospero in a violent and terrible way Caliban • He is easily impressed by stupid people • He is not intelligent Caliban What other ideas did you think of? Today we are going to see another side of Caliban. We are going to closely look at a passage that shows how sensitive he can be. • Ariel has made himself invisible. He is listening to Stephano, Trinculo and Caliban. • Caliban, Stephano and Trinculo have decided they are going to go and kill Prospero. • Ariel starts making strange music and sounds. He wants to confuse and scare Stephano and Trinculo. Caliban ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ Trinculo Stephano Caliban Ariel A soliloquy is a speech where a character speaks to himself or herself or to the people watching. A monologue is a long speech by one person but other characters are on stage. Trinculo Stephano Caliban Today we’ll be annotating a clean copy of Caliban’s monologue. We will read and re-read it a number of times to unlock its meaning. Caliban We will practise reading like experts. Caliban tells Stephano and Trinculo to not be scared. Let’s read. Read from Act 3, Scene 2, Line 127 (‘Be not afeard’) Read to Line 135 (‘I cried to dream again.’) p. 93 First, we will read the monologue in its entirety. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices That if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again. Caliban’s Dream Think:First, we will read the monologue in its entirety. What are your first impressions of the monologue? Let’s hear some of your ideas. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices That if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again. Caliban’s Dream We are going to look at the first two lines of the monologue now. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices That if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again. 1. What is the island ‘full of’? Caliban’s Dream 2. Underline all of the ‘s’ sounds in these two lines. How does this make Caliban’s song calming for Stephano and Trinculo? We are going to look at the first two lines of the monologue now. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices That if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again. 1. The island is ‘full of noises’. Caliban’s Dream 2. The use of sibilance (repeated ‘s’ sounds) makes Caliban’s song calming for Stephano and Trinculo because they are soothing sounds. We are going to look at the first four lines of the monologue now. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices That if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again. 1. List two noises that Caliban hears on the island. Caliban’s Dream 2. Caliban says he hears ‘twangling instruments’. How does this show that Caliban appreciates beauty? How does this contrast with Prospero’s opinion of Caliban? We are going to look at the first four lines of the monologue now. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices That if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again. 1. Caliban hears ‘a thousand twangling instruments’ and ‘voices’. Caliban’s Dream 2. The fact that Caliban can hear the ‘twangling instruments’ demonstrates his appreciation for beauty. This further counters the perception of the native which Prospero has presented. We are going to look at the next two lines of the monologue now. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices That if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again. 1. Caliban repeats the word ‘sleep’ and talks of Caliban’s Dream ‘dreaming’. Is this extract like a lullaby? How? What does this tell you about Caliban’s character? 2. How does this compare to Prospero’s description of Caliban as a ‘devil’? We are going to look at the next two lines of the monologue now. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices That if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again.
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