1. Listened to some more music during lunch.
2. Listened to Act 2, Scene 1. (from a recording)
3. Watched the next part of the film—which he actually said is kind
of good.
I occasionally underestimate my son and I was amazed at
how easily he picked up the consequences of Tatiana’s and Oberon’s argument.
Today, we read allowed Act 2, Scene 2 with Emery taking
the fairy lines and Victor and I playing the lovers. I was surprised by how
many lines rhymed and noticed it even more when Victor changed the
pronunciation of certain words to make them rhyme.
It was another busy day (mainly because I got caught up at
work), so we ended the session by my asking Emery if he saw any symbols in what
we had just read. He got confused and was looking for picture-type symbols. I
asked him to think about the snake that Hermia/ Helena had been dreaming about.
On the positive side, he easily caught onto the mischief
caused by Puck and his favorite line so far is “love in idleness” which he has
rewritten to say “love in laziness”. I’d like to point out the subtle differences
in each statement, but the boy’s version is too cute.
But, that might make a good prompt for a writing
assignment—it might actually be a theme which is a concept he learned this
year. What should he write about?
