Lesson:
If absent:
Write differences and similarities you have seen in the movie Othello which you viewed last class and your own acting they have done in class.
1. To what extent do the actors look like, or sound like, the characters they have imagined? Who would they cast differently?
2. What impression do you have of Desdemona? Why?
3.Judging only from what you saw and heard in this scene, how do Dedemona and Othello feel about each other? How do you know?
4. If you were the director, where would you place Iago in the section of the scene that follows his reentrance with Desdemona? Why?
5. If you were the director is there anything you would have had the actors do differently?
Dramaturge Reports:
Three student groups will be reporting today on the Turks, the Moors, and Venice.
If absent, look these up on your own to make sure you understand these in the play.
What may have accounted for Elizabethan dislike for foreigners, and, possibly, what causes natives of a country to regard foreigners as a threat?
Othello Word Search:
See the Othello word search sheet on the assignments page.
If absent, complete the word search activity.
HMWK: Finish Othello word search and read the rest of Act 1, Scene 3
