Shakespeare R+J

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Today's objectives

• 1st hour: Introduction to Shakespeare

• 2nd hour: Choose play and work on poster

• Poster presentation and scene after May holiday

4E Planner Shakespeare

• Today Work on your poster and prepare scene (check rubric!)
• Wednesday Present poster with your group (1). Make sure that everyone has an equal amount of speaking time.

• Performing scenes starting next Wednesday. 
• This is the last class to prepare as next Monday's class is cancelled due to Pentecost.

4B Planner Shakespeare

• Today Work on your poster and prepare scene (check rubric!)
• Wednesday Present poster with your group (1). Make sure that everyone has an equal amount of speaking time.

• Performing scenes next Wednesday. 
• Next Monday's class is cancelled due to Pentecost so use your time wisely.

Shakespeare Poster Presentation

During two classes, you will make a hand-drawn and written poster about one of the Shakespeare plays from the file on Moodle. 

The purpose of the poster is that it helps your classmate to understand the play in general. All of you have to be included in the poster presentation! 

This poster presentation should be around 3-4 minutes.

Presentations on Wednesday 15 May.

Poster content (3-4 minutes)

• Which type of play is it (tragedy, comedy)?
• Where is it set?
  
• How many characters are there? What are they like? (male, female, particular looks?)
  
• Ratings for the level of violence, dressing up as the opposite sex, etc.
  
• Describe what the scene is about and how it fits into the play (very succinctly).
  
• Please be creative i.e. surprise me!

Perform scene (5-7 minutes)

• Use scene from reader.
• Your performance should last 5-7 minutes.  
• You are allowed (!) to use ChatGPT to translate the scene into modern English.
• Make sure that the basic emotion from the scene will come across to the audience.
• Everyone has a speaking part which is big enough to be graded. 
• You can change the setting and update the text to your liking. As long as you stay true to Shakespeare's spirit. 
• Use of props will be rewarded! 

• Today: Introduction Shakespeare Project
• Next Wednesday 17/4: hand-written test on 1984/Brave New World

Shakespeare?

ROMEO AND JULIET

• Written in 1599
• Among the most popular play during his lifetime
• Juliet only 13 years
• Prologue makes ending no surprise
• Verona
• No balcony in balcony scene
• Movie 1996
• Romeo = passionate male lover

Prologue

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 misadventur’d piteous overthrows

Doth 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.

Famous Death Scenes

• Choose one of the death scenes from the file on Moodle.
  

• Perform your scene in class.
  
• 15 minutes to prepare.

So, who was he?

• Stratford upon Avon
• 1564-1616
• poet, playwright and actor
• The Globe in London
• Made up a lot of words and expressions we still use today

Shakespeare Poster Presentation

During two classes, you will make a hand-drawn and written poster about one of the Shakespeare plays from the file on Moodle. 

The purpose of the poster is that it helps your classmate to understand the play in general. All of you have to be included in the poster presentation! 

This poster presentation should be around 3-4 minutes.

Presentations on Wednesday 15 May.