Eagles shall rocketh!

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Eagles shall rocketh!

• Today you will be
• Shakespeare, a.k.a. The Bard, for a Day
• You will need ONE sheet of notebook paper and a
  writing utensil for todays lesson
  (name/date/period at the top).
• Write down what you already
• know about him.
• Discuss in your group.

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Watch the video

• Shakespeares Life and Times
• and take notes
• on your paper.

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The Bard

• Shakespeare is considered to be a genius.
• He wrote 37 plays and 150 poems in approximately
  21 years and is believed to have coined over 1000
  words and phrases, many of which are still in use
  today
• premeditated heart of gold
• green-eyed in a pickle
• marketable itching palm

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Shakespeare for a Day

• Make a new word by joining a
• Prefix Root Suffix word
• Pan tact ism
• (the practice of touching
• everything, everywhere)
• Prefix Root
• Mono listen er
• (one who listens to only one thing at a time)
• Root Suffix
• Ob Therm ist
• (one who does not believe in global warming)

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Shakespeare for a Day

• How Shakespeare delivered insults
• Thou roguish doghearted giglet
• Thou paunchy bat-fowling scut
• Now, you try it.

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The Bard

• His language seems difficult at first but once
  readers learn to recognize his techniques, the
  meaning behind the words begins to shine through.
  

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• In order to maintain his meter, Shakespeare
  sometimes altered standard English in the
  following ways
• changed grammar
• played with words
• inverted word order
• Brutus found the note.
• S V O
• Brutus the note found.
• S O V

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Shakespeare for a Day
Inverting the word order of a sentence. Example S
ean caught the ball. (subject gtverbgtobject)
becomes The ball Sean caught. (objectgtsubjectgtver
b) or Caught Sean the ball. (verbgtsubjectgtobject)

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• You try it!
• Invert the word order from SVO to SOV
• Ruff fetched the frisbee.
• S V O
• Cordelia cried all night.
• S V O
• Now, write an original sentence, first as you
  normally would (SVO), then using Shakespeares
  inverted order (SOV).

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• He is known for using puns (words with more than
  one meaning words that are homophones).
• The cobbler is like a minister
• he mends soles.
• Fill in the missing words
• Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side
  was cut off? He's all ______ now.
• I couldn't quite remember how to throw a
  boomerang, but eventually ___ ____ ___ __ ___.
• There was a sign on the lawn at a drug
• re-hab center that said, ___ ___ ___ ____.

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• Answers
• Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side
  was cut off? He's all right now.
• I couldn't quite remember how to throw a
  boomerang, but eventually it came back to me.
• There was a sign on the lawn at a drug
• re-hab center that said, 'Keep off the Grass'.

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Shakespeare for a Day

• Can you complete these puns?
• I'm reading a book about anti-gravity. It's
  impossible to ___ ____.
• I used to have a fear of hurdles, but I _____
  _____ ____.

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Watch the video

• Elizabethan Drama
• and take notes
• on your paper.

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Iambic Pentameter

• Put your hand over your heart.
• What sound do you hear?
• ba/BOOM, or something like that?

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Iambic Pentameter

• This sound you hear is
• like an IAMB in poetry.
• It is unstressed/stressed.
• ba/BOOM
• You emphasize the second syllable over the
  first syllable.
• Make sense?

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Iambic Pentameter

• The pair of sounds (ba/BOOM) is
• called a foot, or an IAMB.
• When a poem has 5 of these per line
• it is called
• IAMBIC Pentameter
• I see you are hopelessly lost my love.
• I/see you/are hope/less ly/lost my/love
• 1 2 3 4
  5
• Scansion breve ? and macron
• (system of coding for meter)

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Iambic Pentameter

• Now you write at least ONE line
• using IAMBIC PENTAMETER.
• Mark/Code, using breves and macrons, your
  sentence
• like the example below
• I see you are hopelessly lost my love.
• ? ? ? ?
  ?
• I/see you/are hope/less ly/lost my/love
• 1 2 3 4
  5

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• He used archaic forms of you (thou, thy,
  thine, thee), often to address subordinates or
  equals.
• You will also see lots of these words in his
  works
• dost does
• whilst while
• didst did
• anon in a minute/continuously/sporadically
• Write an original sentence using 3 of these 4
  words as Shakespeare would have.

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• Summarize what you have learned today about
  Shakespeare, then put your paper in the orange
  workbasket.