Shakespeare What do these things have in common What do these things have in common What do these things have in common ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE OLD Baobob Tree up to 1200 years old Edward Cullen over 100 years old ID: 238774
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Words. Poetry. Life.
ShakespeareSlide2
What do these things have in common?Slide3
What do these things have in common?Slide4
What do these things have in common?Slide5
ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE OLD
Baobob
Tree – up to 1200 years old
Edward Cullen – over 100 years old
William Shakespeare – 450 years oldSlide6
Aren’t old things the worst? No.
Baobob
trees are found in Africa and plenty of people turn them into bars or magical burial sites.
Edward Cullen shines when he stands in the sun and he can run super fast.
Bill Shakespeare wrote over forty plays that still capture our imagination today. He’s funny, clever, and totally inappropriate at times.Slide7
D’oh! Why’d he write in verse?
He writes his verse in iambic pentameter, which matches the rhythm of your heart.
IAMBIC PENTAMETER:
IAMB – A metrical foot where an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable:
daDUM
PENTA means five. IAMBIC PENTAMETER means there are five iambs:
daDUM
daDUM
daDUM
daDUM
daDUM
http://
www.shmoop.com
/literature-glossary/
sonnet.htmlSlide8
SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET
14 LINES
The rhyme scheme looks like this: ABABCDCDEFEFGG
The GG line is called A COUPLET
It’s written in Iambic PentameterSlide9
ROMEO AND JULIET
Who cares about a play written 400 years ago?
Me!
The guy who wrote Warm Bodies
The person who wrote The Lion King II:
Simba’s
Pride
The person who wrote West Side Story
Sarah Koenig, the queen of examining evidence!
Adnan Syed
People who experience, love, hate, youth, sex, fate, foolishness, family, exile, etc.
Literature is your gateway to understanding this wicked, cruel, beautiful world we’ve been thrown into. It’s your gateway to empathy for experiences you haven’t had. It’s the best.Slide10
Barriers to loving
shakespeare
Understanding Shakespeare
Funny words: cock-and-pie, laced-mutton,
regreet
Poetry: scary!
Sometimes he talks about stuff we can’t relate to
The etiquette of walking down the streets of London
Getting married at 13
A lot of difficult-to-understand sex jokesSlide11
I’ll help you with those barriers
No Fear Shakespeare: a great site that translates all of Shakespeare into modern language. You still need to decipher the meaning of his imagery and metaphors, but this site helps out a lot!
http://nfs.sparknotes.com/romeojuliet
/
Notes: Yes,
sirree
! Notes force you to think. Thinking helps you comprehend. Weird, I know. True, though.
Chuckling: When I chuckle while we’re reading, you can guess there’s a hidden joke somewhere. Shakespeare’s characters are obsessed with dirty jokes. Lookout!Slide12
Prologue!
Reading time!