Transcript Parts of speech and prologue diagram

Thursday, Oct. 22nd
Warm-up: Mindscapes survey and
reminder about submitting work to
mindscapes.
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 foes
A 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.