Transcript How relevant is Shakespeare? - Cole

Agenda
• Bell Ringer #1: Can you name five ways
Shakespeare (any play, verbiage, etc.) is
relevant today? If you can, list those five ways.
If you can’t, tell me why you think he’s not
relevant.
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Review Subject/Verb agreement
Shakespeare Relevance
Decoding Shakespeare
Practice with “Shakespeare speak”
How relevant is Shakespeare?
Day 2: Hamlet
L.12.3: Apply knowledge of language to understand how language
functions in different contexts, to make effective choices for
meaning or style, and to comprehend more fully when reading or
listening.
* I can interpret the language used in Shakespeare’s writings.
L.12.1: Demonstrate command of conventions of standard English
grammar when writing or speaking.
* I can demonstrate proper use of subject/verb agreement.
Subject/Verb Basic Mistakes
• In its most simple form: plural and collective
nouns require plural verbs and singular nouns
require singular verbs.
• Of course you know this. Maybe, the
questions you got wrong are wrong because
of a simple mistake… aka) not reading the
question closely. Or, maybe it’s because you
made one of the following errors...
Most common mistakes
– 1. The verb agreement MUST follow the last subject
listed. Ex) The dog or the cats are outside.
– 2. Even if there is a subject separated from the verb
because of non-essential elements, the verb must still
follow the subject for agreement. Ex) The movie,
including all the previews, takes about two hours to
watch.
– 3. Indefinite pronouns: anyone, everyone, someone, no
one, and nobody are ALWAYS singular. Ex) Somebody has
left her purse.
Most common mistakes
– 4. When given the option to choose the SUBJECT
of each of the sentences that the verb agrees
with, sometimes the answer is EACH. Solely
because the word EACH implies distribution telling
the reader WHICH thing of whatever group. Ex)
Each of the candidates is going to speak.
– 5. Phrases like together with, as well as, and along
are NOT the same as AND. So, they’re not
compound subjects. Therefore, the agreement
falls with the EARLIER word. Ex) The mayor as well
as his brothers is going to prison. VERSUS The
mayor and his brothers are going to prison.
Get it?
• Try this formative verb practice.
You MUST get both parts of the
question right for credit.
Otherwise it’s counted wrong.
Let’s transition…
• Shakespeare’s relevance is still HUGE today.
• Did you know many modern WORDS and
PHRASES were taken from Shakespeare?
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Dead as a doornail
Love is blind
All’s well that ends well
In a pickle
Cruel to be kind
Many words that begin with prefix un-:
• Uneducated, untrained, unhelpful, unreal, unaware, undress,
unsolicited
Shakespeare in Modern Day
• E!’s show The Royals is loosely
based off the plot of Hamlet.
– There is a prince (Hamlet) who
falls in love with a girl named
Ophelia (Ophelia), whose father is
the king’s advisor (Polonius). The
king dies and the uncle holds the
throne (Claudius), yet the queen
is still the queen (Gertrude) <<
That’s in the show. In the play,
Claudius marries Gertrude. Not to
mention, King comes back as a
ghost. Additionally, there are
plenty of shenanigans that make
it an E! program and NOT an
exact retelling of one of the
greatest plays of all time.
Hamlet and The Lion King
• Cartoon Conspiracy
Play until 3:52
Shakespeare’s Relevance
• So, Shakespeare? He’s more relevant than you
think. I’m trying to tell you, he was the OG of
language, drama, comedy… really all of it.
• Shakespeare in Hip Hop (play until 7:00)
Let’s transition
• I suggest you keep a running notes page for
Shakespeare facts. We’ll be adding a bit more
to the page each day.
• Fact 1:
–Many of Shakespeare’s works are in
imabic pentameter.
• What does that mean?
Iambic Pentameter
Examples…
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“O that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d
His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! O God! O
God!
– Hamlet
Can you hear the five iambs per line?
Now…
• Hopefully you can realize that even though
Hamlet was written in 1600ish, it’s still
influencing our culture today.
• Now, how will we READ/COMPREHEND what’s
on the page? Or, even understand what’s on
film?
• Shakespeare Lesson
Decoding Shakespeare
• Picture yourself at a wedding… what words do
the bride and groom exchange?
• I, Jasmine, take thee, Aladdin as my lawful
husband.
• What common word could replace thee?
Pronouns… back in the day
• Shakespeare’s works use different pronouns,
mostly because he wrote hundreds of years ago
when English was a little different.
• In the Elizabethan era, like today, pronouns
changed depending on their job in a sentence.
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Thou- Subject: “Thou are my brother.”
Thee- Object: “Come, let me clutch thee.”
Thy- Possessive adjective: “What is thy name?”
Thine- Possessive Noun: “To thine own self be true.”
Ye- Subject: “Ye shall know me.”
Practice
• That in thy likeness thou appear to us!
In your likeness you appear to us!
Can you do the next one? Rewrite the following
passage onto your own paper in modern
English.
Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast,/ Which
thou will propagate, to have it prest/ With more
of thine: this love that thou hast shown/Doth add
more grief to too much of mine own.
Answer:
Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast,/
Which thou will propagate, to have it prest/
With more of thine: this love that thou hast
shown/Doth add more grief to too much of mine
own.
My grief lays heavy in my heart/ and you will
expand my pain, to be pressed/ into yours. The
love you have shown/ adds more hurt to my
own overly heavy burdens.
Verb Endings
• An older form of English, Middle English,
added ‘bits’ to the end of the verbs- called
inflections.
• Shakespeare used Modern English (at the
time), but the language still used some
inflections. That’s why there will be an extra est or –st, and –th or –eth.
– “Thou liest, malignant thing.”
– “What didst thou see?”
– “He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not.”
Practice
• I would thou hadst my bones, and I thy news.
• I wish you had my bones, and I had your news.
Do the next one on your own paper.
I do protest I never injured thee, / But love thee
better than those canst devise / Till thou shalt
know the reason of my love
Answer
• I do protest I never injured thee, / But love
thee better than those canst devise / Till thou
shalt know the reason of my love
• I disagree; I never insulted you, / But will care
for you more than you can understand / you
will know the reason of my love
Sentence Structure
• Shakespeare loved to play with the English language.
He knew he could be creative with diction, figurative
language, multiple meaning words and sentence
structure.
• When reading Shakespearean sentences, rearrange
and reword where necessary to understand.
– As you cluster words into sentences, you should see that
Shakespeare’s sentences can be easy to decode.
– Your final sentence can (and probably will) be different
from Shakepeare’s. Doesn’t mean either sentence is
better; it’s just different.
Exit Slip
• On your own half-sheet of paper, decode the following
Shakespeare Insults:
– (via the Twitter account @WilliamHatesYou)
• You may have to look some words up! That’s okay. You
should! That will enhance your knowledge of the word.
1. “If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your
wit bankrupt.” The Two Gentlemen of Verona
2. “What a brazen faced varlet art thou.” King Lear
3. “She speaks yet she says nothing.” Romeo and Juliet
4. “I’ll beat thee, but I should infect my hands.” Timon of
Athens
5. “I desire that we be better strangers.” As You Like It