Date: 12/3/13

Aim: What does the evidence tell us about who Shakespeare was?

Warm Up: What do you know about William Shakespeare?

Weekly learning target: I can cite evidence from a text that is both explicit and inferred in order to draw conclusions.

Check For Understanding

Think/Pair/Share

Announcements1. 2 extra participation points for the whole class can be earned each day if the whole class is participating the following times:

Guided Practice Participation

Independent Practice On Task Working

2. 210 independent books read

3. Book Reports are due Friday December 13th.

Agenda

1. Warm Up and Vocabulary: Journal Prompt/ Vocabulary2. Mini-Lesson: Elizabethan England/ Shakespeare Background3. Guided Practice: Closely Reading Shakespeare’s Words4.Independent Practice: Partner Close Reading5.Wrap Up: Exit Ticket

Homework:

Vocabulary

Thou

Syntax

Tone

You

The order of words

The attitude that the author has about what she/he is writing

Mini-LessonBackground

dramatic?

smart? Serious?

bald?

Funny?

For the upper class?

Welcome to Elizabethan England (1558-1603)

Who is the Queen?Elizabeth I

Where does she live?

Where do you live?

Are you healthy?

Are the police nice?

What can you do for fun?The Globe Theater

Inside the globe.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players…”

To stand in the pit= 1 penny

To sit in a gallery = 5 pennies

To sit in a chair near the stage= 10 pennies

Check for UnderstandingBased on the evidence, what were the times like for the ordinary person during Elizabethan England when Shakespeare was writing?

Actors and Actresses?

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo: Oh, Juliet. Your eyes are bright like the sun.

Juliet: Romeo, my Romeo, the husband of my dreams. How much do you love me?

Romeo: Oh, Juliet. My love for you is big like an ocean, and sweet like sugar.

Juliet: Dear Romeo, kiss me!

Guided Practice

Why is Shakespeare still

read today?

His language

His timeless themes

His ability to entertain all kinds of people interested and educated in many different ways

Guided PracticeClosely Reading Shakespeare’s

Lines1. Read the line2. Underline all of the words that you know3. Look at the order of the words (syntax)4. Circle the punctuation5. Look for denotations and connotations“What do these words mean? Are they negative or positive?”6. Re-read the statement for meaning

Guided Practice

Statement Tone Meaning

Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!Give me my sin again.

Closely Reading Shakespeare’s Lines

1. Read the line2. Underline all of the words that you know3. Look at the order of the words (syntax)4. Circle the punctuation5. Look for denotations and connotations“What do these words mean? Are they negative or positive?”6. Re-read the statement for meaningNegative

Seductive

Secret

SecretiveI am not supposed to kiss you but I want you to kiss me. Please kiss me.

Sin comes from my lips

I want you to sweetly trespass.

Independent PracticeClosely Reading Shakespeare

Statement Tone Meaning

I do desire we may be better strangers.

More of your conversation would infect my brain.

You have witchcraft in your lips .All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players…You kiss by the book

I pray you, do not fall in love with me, For I am falser than vows made in wine.

Wrap Up

What does the evidence tell us about who Shakespeare was?

Homework: Read your independent

reading book.