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1. Puck’s “I’ll follow you” speech

Puck chases some Athenian craftsmen and scares them for fun! We use this one for all ages. This is a fun speech to break into small pieces and share around the circle. You can divide each time there is punctuation. Write the sections on cards, or let everyone highlight their sheet with their words. You can have pairs do the words too, or groups of 3; this way each group will get more than one part as the speech goes around the circle.

2. Midsummer scenes with summaries for Grade 4

Each of these scenes has a mix of the original text with narrative summaries to explain the action as you go along. These can be used for other grade levels.
    Scene 1
    Scene 2
    Scene 3

3. Midsummer collage – Dream

This is a collage of moments from scenes which all contain the word “dream.” Some are very brief, others are for group performance – so this is a section you can do as a whole performance piece for older students, or take snippets from for younger kids.

4. Edited texts of whole scenes

These are edited to varying degrees – some longer speeches are trimmed or cut, but much of the text is intact.
    Scene 1
    Scene 2
    Scene 3

5. Dueling Bottoms

We added this one in just for fun. It’s from the final scene. It was created for two 4th grade boys who both wanted to play Nick Bottom in the final moments scene of “Pyramus and Thisbe,” the play-within-the- play.