Mastery Content

In this lesson, students will be mastering the following:

Mastery Content:
• Ferdinand and Miranda fall in love at first sight
• Prospero is pleased that they have fallen in love
• Prospero wants to challenge their relationship to prove that their love is true
 Do Now: The course of true love How do you want students to record this Do
Recap the quotation from AMND: ‘The course of true love never did run smooth’. Ask students to review Now? In books, on MWB?
what this quotation means, and how it applied to the story of AMND. There is also opportunity to relate
this quotation to other examples from literature, art, or pop culture if further illustrations are needed to
clarify.
Recap: Ariel and Ferdinand
Recap who Ferdinand is and how Ariel sung to him in the previous lesson. You may want to suggest that
Ferdinand is feeling vulnerable and emotional. He may well be open to suggestion at the moment.

Reading: Ferdinand and Miranda fall in love at first sight Page 35

Read the extract where Miranda and Ferdinand meet for the first time. How do you want to manage reading of the
On re-reading, look for how they feel towards each other, and how they declare their feelings for one script? Do you want to be the director,
Lesson Guide

another. allocating roles? Or do you want students to

The comprehension activity asks students to sequence the events of the passage in the correct order with a read in groups?
quotation to support. This is an opportunity to check for understanding before moving onto the next You might want to read the summary to the
section. class before reading each page so that
students are familiar with what they are
about to encounter. Consider how you will
make the most use of reading time in class.

Aside
Explain what an aside is. You might also be able to link to a soliloquy if this is remembered from last year.
It is less formal than a soliloquy, though. Look at Prospero’s aside and ask students to explain what he
means by this. There are links to ‘The course of true love…’ as Prospero is deliberately attempting to
hinder the courting of Miranda and Ferdinand.
The course of true love
Students need to draw upon the quotation from AMND to explain the relationship between Miranda and
Ferdinand – Prospero is deliberately interfering with their love in order to make it stronger. There are other
links to interfering father figures (Egeus) as well.
Plots and genre
Recap the features of Shakespearean comedy and relate to the events of 'The Tempest'. There are three
main plots in 'The Tempest': the love plot is the first plot. We will call it that when we return to it later in
the unit.
Mastery assessment plenary How do you want to capture understanding?
Students complete quiz. Mini whiteboards?
If all correct, do extension by asking students to turn a wrong answer into a right one. If incorrect, address Physical ‘tickets’?
misconception and explain correct answer/get other student to explain correct answer. Hand signals?
Cold calling?
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‘The course of true love
never did run smooth’
This is a quotation from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.
Do Now

• What does this

quotation mean?
• How did this quotation
apply to the characters
in ‘A Midsummer
Night’s Dream’?

Extension: How does this quotation apply to other books we

have studied?
 ‘The course of true love
never did run smooth’
This quotation suggests that true love sometimes has to overcome
a number of difficulties.
Do Now

It also suggests that love is

not true unless the lovers have
had to tackle problems. If the
relationship is never tested by
difficult situations, it is
impossible to know how
strong the love is.
 Last lesson, we met Ferdinand.
• Ferdinand has been washed ashore.
• He has been washed ashore by himself on the island.
• He thinks that his father, King Alonso, died in the storm.
• Prospero has sent Ariel to bring Ferdinand towards Miranda.
Ariel does this by singing a magical song to Ferdinand.
Ferdinand

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪

Ferdinand Ariel
 Let’s read: Act 1 Scene 2 Lines 404 – 448
Read from Act 1 Scene 2 Line 404 (‘The ditty does
remember…’)
Read to Act 1 Scene 2 Line 448 (‘The Queen of Naples’)
The Tempest

p. 35 Ferdinand Miranda
 Read these lines again in pairs.
Read from Act 1 Scene 2 Line 404 (‘The ditty does
remember…’)
Read to Act 1 Scene 2 Line 448 (‘The Queen of Naples’)
The Tempest

As you read, think about how Miranda and

Ferdinand feel towards each other.

p. 35 Ferdinand Miranda
 Here are the main points from lines 404 – 448:
A) After falling in love with Miranda, Ferdinand offers to make
Miranda Queen.
Ferdinand and Miranda

B) Ferdinand explains that he is now the King of Naples as he

thinks his father died in the storm.
C) Miranda falls in love with Ferdinand at first sight.
D) Prospero realises that Miranda and Ferdinand have fallen in
love.
E) Ferdinand believes that Miranda must be the beautiful and
strange creature that sung of his father’s death.

These points are in the wrong order.

• What is the right order?
• Underneath each event, give a quotation to support your
point. Give a line number.
 Here is the answer to the first point. Lay out your answers like this.

C)
‘I might call him / A thing divine, for nothing natural / I ever saw so noble.’
(416-418)
Ferdinand and Miranda

A) After falling in love with Miranda, Ferdinand offers to make Miranda

Queen.
B) Ferdinand explains that he is now the King of Naples as he thinks his
father died in the storm.
C) Miranda falls in love with Ferdinand at first sight.
D) Prospero realises that Miranda and Ferdinand have fallen in love.
E) Ferdinand believes that Miranda must be the beautiful and strange
creature that sung of his father’s death.

These points are in the wrong order.

• What is the right order?
• Underneath each event, give a quotation to support your point. Give a
line number.
 C) Miranda falls in love with Ferdinand at first sight.
‘I might call him / A thing divine, for nothing natural / I ever saw so noble.’
(416-418)
E) Ferdinand believes that Miranda must be the beautiful and strange
Ferdinand and Miranda

creature that sung of his father’s death.

‘Most sure the goddess / On whom these airs attend.’ (420-421)
F) Ferdinand explains that he is now the King of Naples as he thinks his
father died in the storm.
‘Myself am Naples, / Who with mine eyes, never since at ebb, beheld / The
king my father wreck'd.’ (433-435)
D) Prospero realises that Miranda and Ferdinand have fallen in love.
‘At the first sight / They have changed eyes.’ (439-440)
E) After falling in love with Miranda, Ferdinand offers to make
Miranda Queen.
‘I'll make you / The queen of Naples.’ (447-448)
 [Aside]
• When a character speaks aside, they briefly talk away from the
rest of the characters.
• The character speaks to himself or herself or to the people
watching rather than to the other characters. It gives the
The Tempest

audience more information.

 Prospero sees that his daughter has fallen in love
with Ferdinand at first sight.
This is what he says in his next aside:

[Aside]
The Tempest

They are both in either's powers; but this swift business

I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
Make the prize light.

Discuss these questions with a partner:

1. What do you think Prospero means by
this?
2. Why does he say it aside from the other
characters?
Prospero
 [Aside]
They are both in either's powers; but this swift business
I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
The Tempest

Make the prize light.

• Prospero thinks that Ferdinand and

Miranda have fallen in love too easily.
• He thinks that there needs to be some
difficulty in their relationship.
• This will test Ferdinand and Miranda’s
love and make it mean more to them.
Prospero
 This is a quotation from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.

‘The course of true love

never did run smooth’
Write down your answer to this question:
The Tempest

How does this quotation apply to Ferdinand and

Miranda’s relationship in 'The Tempest'?

Prospero Ferdinand Miranda

 We have already looked at the features of a
Shakespearean comedy.

What features of comedy have we

found so far in 'The Tempest'?
Comedy

1. It has a happy ending, usually including a marriage.

2. There are no deaths in the play.
3. There is at least one romantic plot.
4. One plot involves characters who aren’t kings, queens,
princes, princesses, lords or ladies. They are servants
and tradespeople. These characters get into ridiculous
situations.
5. There is confusion around who characters really are.
 There are three main plots in 'The Tempest'.
Miranda and Ferdinand’s love plot is the first plot we have found
in the play.
We will call this Plot 1: The love plot.
This will help to avoid confusion when we read the other plots in
the play!
Plots

Prospero Ferdinand Miranda

 Which statements are correct?

a) Ferdinand is glad his father died because it means that he is

now the King of Naples.
Mastery

b) Miranda’s love for Ferdinand is unrequited. He does not love

her back.
c) Prospero thinks that Ferdinand is not good enough for his
daughter.
d) Miranda has fallen in love with Ferdinand because of a love
potion.
e) Ferdinand offers to marry Miranda.
 Which statements are correct?

a) Ferdinand is glad his father died because it means that he is

now the King of Naples.
Review

b) Miranda’s love for Ferdinand is unrequited. He does not love

her back.
c) Prospero thinks that Ferdinand is not good enough for his
daughter.
d) Miranda has fallen in love with Ferdinand because of a love
potion.
e) Ferdinand offers to marry Miranda.
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