Thursday, Oct. 22nd

Warm-up: Mindscapes survey and reminder about submitting work to

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Today’s agenda Parts of Speech overview and tips for reading Shakespeare. Identify parts of speech in The Prologue and important words that relate to main themes of play. Discuss why it is formatted as a sonnet. Record voiceover for presentation Watch presentation and evaluate accuracy/changes that can be made to more accurately convey the theme. Translate into scenario that is relevant for today and recreate slides. Introduction to Shakespeare video

Parts of Speech

Why are we relearning the parts of speech?

Help understand Shakespeare’s language Grammar building blocks to help improve English Start with the basics. You will need to take notes on the sheet provided.

Noun

Person, place of thing Also known as the subject of the sentence.Concrete: The dog ran after the ball. Abstract: One of the themes in Romeo and Juliet is love. Proper noun is capitalized: names, holidays, months, ect.

Pronoun

A word the takes the place of a noun in a sentence.

Example: I, we, you, she, he, it, they, him, her, you, us, me, them.

Adjective

Describes a noun

Answer the following questions: Which, What kind of, How many.

Verb

Action word or state of being.

Beth rides the bus every day

Paul was an avid reader

Adverb

Modify verbs

Usually end in -ly

We waved wildly to get her attention.

He ran quickly towards the store.

Article

A, an, the

Precede a noun in a sentence

He gave her a blue pencil

He bought the car

Prepositions

Work with noun to create phrases the modify verbs, nouns or adjectives.

Ivy climbed up the brick wall of the house. Aboard, about, above, across, after, against, along, amid, among, around, at, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, by, down, during, except, for, from, in, into, like, near, of, off, on, onto, out, over, past, since, through, throughout, to, toward, under, underneath, until, unto, up, upon, with, within, without

Conjunction

Word that joins two independent clauses or sentences

And, but, for, or, nor, so, yet.

He went to the store and he bought some milk.

The Prologue

Work in groups from the other day. Go through and identify the parts of speech in the prologue Indicate the iambs, and rhyme scheme Circle important words in the prologue. What are ideas that Shakespeare repeats. Use a dictionary to find different definitions of the words. Brainstorm possible themes.

Two households, both alike in dignity,In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

From forth the fatal loins of these two foesA pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;Whose misadventured piteous overthrows

Do with their death bury their parents' strife.The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,

And the continuance of their parents' rage,Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,

Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;The which if you with patient ears attend,

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.