Puberty, Pain, and Pranking

So I've been looking over my primary text A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM and am falling more and more in love with it. Discussions in the classroom with Amelia, Bailey and Mikaela have helped me realize that this play IS successfully taught in high schools, so why not find out the best and worst ways and write an essay on it? Some of the topics that might interest high school youth are reflected in these quotes: becoming a man, unrequited love (hey hey, Bailey!), mischievousness.

(I.ii.40) Flute says: Nay, faith, let not me play a woman: I have a beard coming. 

(III.ii.233-235) Helena says: What though I be not so in grace as you, / But miserable most, to love unloved? / This you should pity rather than despise. 

(II.i.33-35) Fairy says: Either I mistake your shape and making quite, / Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite / Called Robin Goodfellow. 

Reading through Janelle's process of writing her paper has been helpful because hers also had an educational emphasis, and it's encouraging to find a person who is like minded. Through her comments I am seeing that I am going to need to focus my broad theme down to a couple specific ideas so my paper doesn't end up being twenty pages long. We'll see how that goes.