•To apply our skills in P-E-E paragraphing to the opening scenes of the play.

P-E-E Paragraphing• POINT – EVIDENCE – EVALUATION

• Look at Act 1, Scene 1 and Act 2, Scene 1 (lines 190-244)

• For each character, find two quotes that tell you something important about the type of person they are.

• For each quote, write a P-E-E paragraph explaning what we can tell about them from what they say.

QuotesTHESEUS: Demetrius is a worthy gentleman.HERMIA: So is Lysander.

HERMIA: The worst may befall my in this case if I refuse to marry Demetrius.

HERMIA: I refuse to wed Demetrius!

LYSANDER: I am, my Lord, as well deserved as he.

LYSANDER: You hath her father’s love, Demetrius. Let me have Hermia. Do you marry him?

HELENA: Use me as your spaniel. Spurn me. Strike me.

HELENA: O that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill!

HELENA: I’ll follow thee, and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well.

EGEUS: Full of vexation come I, with complaint against my daughter, Hermia.

EGEUS: As she is mine, I shall dispose of her. Which shall be either to this gentleman or to her death.

DEMETRIUS: For I am sick when I do look on thee.

LYSANDER (ABOUT DEMETRIUS): Demetrius, I’ll avouch it to his head, Made love to Nedar’s daughter, Helena. (proving that he has switched from Helena to Hermia)

DEMETRIUS: Relent, sweet Hermia, and Lysander yield…Thy crazed title to my certain right.

Dear Agony Aunt……

Look at Act 1 Scene 1, lines 180-201.

What are Helena’s problems? Write a letter from Helena to a problem page in which she speaks about her love for Demetrius and compares her own physical appearance to Hermia’s.

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