Wednesday – January 28, 2015Entry Task

Take out book, reading log/daily editsBe in your seats! Don’t be tardy!Agenda • Do you have your syllabus signed???• Review themes from yesterday• Shakespeare background• In-class Expository Essay

Go over expectations

Homework: signed syllabus – Friday

You will need…

• Reading log• Pen/pencil • Shakespeare background notes –To be handed out!

Learning Targets

• I can identify grammatical errors in a sentence.

• I am familiar with William Shakespeare and the history of Elizabethan theatre

• I know what is expected of me in the expository essay

Success CriteriaStudents will have…

…completed their reading log and daily edits

…taken notes on Shakespeare…reviewed the terms conform and

rebel

Theme Statements: Do you Agree or Disagree?...1. True love is worth dying for.

2. It is worth sacrificing your family to be with the one you love.

3. A person can be in love at age 15.

4. Hatred is a feeling that is taught.

5. Fate determines our lives.

6. Love at first sight is a sign of true love. 7. Parents do not have the right to determine whom their children date.

What is the connection between the theme statements and Romeo and Juliet?

We study Shakespeare because...• He is the most widely read author of all

time.• The themes are still relevant• We want to understand allusions

(references to other works)• Learn to appreciate puns• Understand DRAMA as a form of writing

Phrases popularized or invented by Shakespeare

• All's well that ends well• Break the ice • Dead as a doornail • Elbow room • Good riddance • Heart of gold• Love is blind • Too much of a good thing• Wild-goose chase

Remember: At times the language may seem foreign but the big ideas are something we can easily relate to!

Big Ideas in Romeo and Juliet• Forbidden love• Infatuation (crush) vs real love• Destiny vs. free will• Conflict between parents and children• Revenge

William Shakespeare &

Elizabethan Theater

Born in Stratford-upon-Avon April 23, 1564

Died in Stratford-upon-Avon April 23, 1616

Early life and family

In Shakespeare’s time, spelling was not formalized, so Shakespeare’s name was spelled:

• Shakspear• Shagspere• Shaxper• Shaksper

Shakespeare probably went to school until he was between 13 and 15 years old. He would have learned Latin, English and math.

Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway in 1582.He was 18.She was 26.

Six months after they were married, William and Anne had a daughter named Susanna.

In 1585 twins Judith and Hamnet were born.

Hamnet died at age 11.

Shakespeare arrived in London around 1595 and worked as an actor.

After he began writing plays, they were performed at The Globe Theater.

• Wrote 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and started out as an actor

• He wrote comedies, histories, and tragedies

• R & J was written about 1595 (Tragedy)

Elizabethan Theaters• The Globe was a standard Elizabethan

Theater (built in 1599)• Was built by Lord Chamberlain’s Acting

Company (Shakespeare worked for them)

• Theater troupes were almost like gangs.• At the time, actors and people

associated with the theater were of very low status.

• Theater was meant to be popular entertainment for the masses.

• Elizabethan theater is named for…

Queen Elizabeth

The exterior of the Globe Theater (a modern reconstruction)

An aerial view of the new construction

Views of the Interior

People near the stage would be called ‘groundlings.’

Fancy people would sit in the

seats.

The Stage

Space for musicians before the show

The ‘Above’- this is where angels and good spirits would appear

The main stage- this is where most of the action takes place.The ‘Below’- bad

spirits and devils would emerge from trap doors in the stage

Actors• Were only men and boys• Young boys (whose voices had not

changed) would play the women• Considered indecent for women to

appear on stage

Shakespeare died on his birthday in 1616 and was buried in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Shakespeare’s tomb reads:

Good frend for Jesus sake forbeare toDigg the dust encloased heare.Blest be ye man yt spares these stones andCurst be he yt moves my bones.

In his will, Shakespeareleft almost all of his property to Susanna and her husband. He left his second best bed to his wife.

To conform

1. The act of changing one’s behavior or actions to be like someone or something else

2. What are some examples of how teenagers conform?

3. Why do teenagers conform?

To rebel

1. To act or behave opposite to what is expected

2. What are some examples of how teenagers rebel?

3. Why do teenagers rebel?