<p> Project Choices: A Midsummer Night’s Dream</p><p>Option One (Required): Create a diagram with a flow chart or map showing the four pairs of lovers-- Theseus/Hippolyta, Oberon/Titania, Lysander/Hermia, and Demetrius/Helena--and explaining how their relationships change throughout the play, ending with the final pairings. Illustrate the charts with images. Use high-visibility font.</p><p>Option two (Choose One): Choice 1: Explain how Lysander's statement, "the course of true love never did run smooth" (I,i,134) applies to each of the four pairs of lovers AND in modern times. You may communicate your ideas with a power point (or other presentation form), through some sort of display (poster, Prezi), art, film, poetry, or song. The format through which you communicate is not important. What is important is that you discuss specific details from the text AND from modern timesthat show how the course of love is not smooth. Choice 2: Helena says, "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind" (I, i, 234-235). Explain how this statement applies to each of the four pairs of lovers AND to modern times. You may communicate your ideas with a power point (or other presentation form), through some sort of display (poster, Prezi), art, film, poetry, or song. The format through which you communicate is not important. What is important is that you discuss specific details from the text AND from modern times that show how love is blind. Choice 3: Show how Bottom's line, "reason and love keep little company nowadays" (III,1,144-45) fits his relationship with Titania. Then, show how the line fits the other lovers--Theseus and Hippolyta, for instance, AND how it fits into modern times. You may communicate your ideas with a power point (or other presentation form), through some sort of display (poster, Prezi), art, film, poetry, or song. The format through which you communicate is not important. What is important is that you discuss specific details from the text AND from modern times that show how love defies reason. Choice 4: Explain how Puck's statement, "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" (III,ii,115) applies not only to the mortals in the woods, but also to the fairies, and to people in modern times. You may communicate your ideas with a power point (or other presentation form), through some sort of display (poster, Prezi), art, film, poetry, or song. The format through which you communicate is not important. What is important is that you discuss specific details from the text that show how the characters behave foolishly both in the text AND in modern times.</p>