Rikki Olson

TEL 311
Monday Wednesday 3:00
4/20/16
Activity Design Plan
Dialogue Challenge
Activity Objective: Students will apply dialogue from Shakespeares plays by demonstrating
short scenes in front of the classroom.
Description of Activity: In groups of two, students will chose one a card from a hat. On one side
of the card there will be a Shakespearean dialogue, and on the other side there will be a
challenge such as, perform this dialogue as if you were on a trapeze. In these groups of two,
students will go in front of the class and perform these dialogues.
Motivation: Extrinsic Motivation- The first student to guess the name of the play from the
dialogue performed will win a piece of candy. At the end of class, every students will receive a
piece as they walk out the door.
Intrinsic Motivation- Students will be able to get out of their seats and act out a dialogue. They
will also get to watch their classmates perform, having fun while learning about Shakespeare.
Directions: At the beginning of class, students will be asked to get into groups of two with their
elbow partners. Then, the teacher will walk around the class with a hat with the cards in it.
Students will pick one card per team.
Each team will have a card that has a Shakespearean dialogue on one side and a challenge on
the other. They will have 10 minutes to practice their scenes. After, students will be called by
popsicle sticks to perform their dialogue. The students are more than welcome to read their
dialogue right off the index card, because they will not expected to memorize these lines. The
first student to raise their hand and guess the play in which the dialogue is from will win.
The teacher will check for understanding by asking a series of questions before the game
begins. These students will be called on by popsicle sticks.
Question 1- How many minutes will you have to practice your dialogue?
Question 2- What are we doing?
Question 3- How will I being choosing the order of who performs?
Active Participation: The design of this activity ensures that all students are engaged because
they will all be reading their Shakespearean dialogue, listening and watching the dialogue as it
is performed, and they will have the opportunity to recall prior knowledge when naming the
plays. On task behavior will be maximized by the use of a timer. Students will have 1 minute and
30 seconds to get into groups with their elbow partners. Students will then have 10 minutes to
figure out how to interpret their dialogue. Transition times will be minimized by the use of

popsicle sticks. Each group will be called upon to perform, by the teacher, with the sticks. The
auditory signal to grab the students attention will be, To be, or not to be...Eyes on me.
Expectations of Student Behavior: Students will be expected to watch and listen while their
classmates perform their dialogues. They will wait until the dialogue is finished to raise their
hands and name the play. After performing their dialogue students will go back to their seats.
Then, the next grouped will be called to go up from and perform.
Materials: One index card per group of two students.
Modeling- The teacher will model the assignment by asking a student to volunteer to do a mock
dialogue with the teacher. This will be done in front of the class. The teacher will encourage the
students to raise their hands and try to guess which play the dialogue is from. The teacher will
then explain that this is what the students will be doing for the period.
Dialogues with Challenges:
Play: The Taming of the Shrew.
Challenge: Read this dialogue interpretively as Arnold Schwarzenegger
Petruccio: I say it is the moon.
Katherine: I know it is the moon.
Petruccio: Nay, then you lie, it is the blessed sun.
Katherine: The God be blessed, it is the blessed sun,
Play: The Taming of the Shrew
Challenge: Read this dialogue interpretively as Jerry Seinfeld
Bianca: What, master, read you? First resolve me that.
Lucentio: I read that I profess, The Art of Love.
Bianca: And may you prove, sir, master of your art.
Lucentio: While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart.
Play: The Taming of the Shrew
Challenge: Read this dialogue interpretively as Danny Devito
Petruccio: First kiss me, Kate, and we will.
Katherine: What, in the midst of the street?
Petruccio: What, art thou ashamed of me?
Katherine: No, sir, god forbid: but ashamed to kiss.
Play: Romeo and Juliet
Challenge: Play this dialogue as if you are on a trapeze
Romeo: Farewell/ I will omit no opportunity/ That may convey my greetings, love, to thee.
Juliet: O, thinkst thou we shall ever meet again?
Romer: I doubt it not, and all these woes shall serve/ For sweet discourses in our times to come.
Juliet: O God, I have an ill-divining soul!

Play: Othello
Challenge: Play this dialogue as if you are underwater
Emilia: Is not this man jealous?
Desdemona: I neer saw this before./ Sure theres some wonder in this handkerchief. / I am
most unhappy in the loss of it.
Emilia: Tis not a year or two shows us a man./ They are all but stomachs and we all but food.
Play: Othello
Challenge: Perform this dialogue in song- create your melody!
Othello: Dost thou say so?
Iago: She did deceive her father, marrying you,/ And when she seemed to shake and fear your
looks/ She loved them most.
Othello: And so she did.
Iago: Why, go to, then. / She that so young could give out such a seeming,/ To seel her fathers
eyes up close as oak.
Play: Macbeth
Challenge: Perform this dialogue as Dolly Parton
First Witch: When shall we three meet again?/ In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Second Witch: When the hurly-burlys done,/ When the battles lost and won.
First Witch: That will be ere the set of sun.
Second Witch: Wheres the place?
First WItch: Upon the heath.
Play: Macbeth
Challenge: While performing this dialogue do a Hawaiian luau dance
Macbeth: This is a sorry sight.
Lady Macbeth: A foolish though, to say a sorry sight.
Macbeth: Theres one did laugh ins sleep, and one cried, murder!/ That they did wake each
other. I stood and heard them. / But they did say their prayers and addressed them/ Again to
sleep.
Lady Macbeth: There are two lodged together.
Play: Richard III
Challenge: Interpret this dialogue as Jack Black
Clarence: I know it pleaseth neither of us well.
Richard Gloucester: Well, you imprisonment shall not be long./ I will deliver you or lie for you./
Meantime, have patience.
Clarence: I must perforce. Farewell.
Richard Gloucester: Go tread the path that thou shalt neer return.
Sources:
This game came from Ehow.com:

http://www.ehow.com/info_8745039_shakespeare-classroom-games.html
The dialogues are from The Norton Shakespeare 2nd Edition:

Howard, Jean E., Katharine Eisaman Maus, and Walter Cohen. The Norton Shakespeare. 2nd ed.
New York: Norton, 2005. Print.