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Task 9: MERCIFUL PORTIA
You will be given by your teacher copies of the poem “Mercy” Portia’s soliloquy in
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare. Identify the act of mercy Portia did in
the poem. Cite lines from the poem to justify your answer.
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Task 10: A POET’S POEM, A FAN’S PROSE
Go back to Yandoli’s commentary on Social Justice from Harry Potter Series and
Shakespeare’s “Mercy” from The Merchant of Venice. Examine how prose and poetry
differ from one another. Accomplish the chart below:
Criteria Poetry Prose
Structure
Measurement
Language Use
Rhyme
DRAFT
Task 11: LIGHTS ON
Remember the two
friends
April
caught in a black
10, 2014
out. The lights are now on
and their identities are
revealed. They are Portia
from “The Merchant of
Venice” and Hermione
Granger from “Harry Potter
Series”. Play on these
characters and write a
short paragraph about how
Portia could seek justice on
discriminations
Hermione.
against