Shakespeare Unit5th Grade Mini-Unit: What is that old English guy saying?

Shakespeare Basicshttp://www.biography.com/#!/people/william-shakespeare-9480323#synopsis

William Shakespeare: Born - @April 1564Died - @ April 1616Educated – King’s New SchoolPlace of Birth – Stratford-upon-Avon,United KingdomPlace of Death – Stratford-upon-Avon, United KingdomOccupation – actor, playwright, poet, businessmanInfluence – English Language, Modern Plays

Biography viewing questions: http://www.biography.com/#!/people/william-shakespeare-9480323#synopsis• 1. Where was Shakespeare born?• 2. Did Shakespeare go to college?• 3. What is one of Shakespeare’s personal tragedies?• 4. By what age had Shakespeare written “Romeo and Juliet”?• 5. What was the name of the theater that Shakespeare helped to open in 1599?• 6. Why did Shakespeare’s players, actors, change their name from The

Chamberlain’s Men to The King’s Men?• 7. What are different categories of Shakespeare’s plays?• 8. What period did Shakespeare write “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”?• 9. Why did Shakespeare have to write his 154 Sonnets?• 10. What did Shakespeare do for the English language?

The Language of Shakespeare

What’s a sonnet?• Now we are going to look at one of Shakespeare’s famous sonnets,

Sonnet 18… What’s a sonnet you ask? Well, let’s look the form, and rhyme scheme and create our own definition.• 1. How many lines are there in a sonnet?• 2. What is the rhyme scheme?• 3. Why do the two last lines rhyme?

What’s a sonnet?

Definition of Shakespearean Sonnet – • 14 line stanza, • iambic pentameter, • ababcdcdefefgg rhyme scheme, • “turn” at the last two lines… a shift in the focus of the poem

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18XVIII.

Line 1 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? a

Thou art more lovely and more temperate: b

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, a

And summer's lease hath all too short a date: b

Line 5 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, c

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; d

And every fair from fair sometime declines, c

By chance, or nature's changing course un-

trimm'd; d

But thy eternal summer shall not fade, e

Line10 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, f

Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his

shade, e

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st; f

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, g

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. g

Shakespeare’s Plays

• We are going to explore an excerpt from “The Tempest”. In it, we hear a spell that Ariel is casting to cause a shipwreck… Let’s look at the form and style of the prose that Shakespeare uses to “cast his spell” on us and pull us into this play.• “Full Fathom Five” – opposite side sonnet• Questions: • 1. What is the purpose of the spell?• 2. What is the fate of the father?

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