MYP2 Lesson 14

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MYP2 Lesson 14

Poetry and Pain

1. Use the Internet to find some information about the author and the context surrounding the poems. Consider when they were written and what was going on in the women's lives and in the world around them.

2.  What is the message the poem is trying to convey?

4. What type of pain is being expressed in the poem?

Analyse some more poems

Group 1: In the Glass Coffin (link)

Group 2: To a Wreath of Snow (link)

Group 3: Sweet Torture (link)

Poetry and Pain

3. Compare and Contrast the poems. What connections can you identify? How do they differ? 

A final FLIRT

Let's read "To the Young Wife" by Charlotte Anna Perkins Gillman

What is the main message of the poem?

A woman's place is in the kitchen

I agree

I somewhat agree

I somewhat disagree

I disagree

I disagree completely

Women rule the world

I agree

I somewhat agree

I somewhat disagree

I disagree

I disagree completely

Women should be treated with more respect

I agree

I somewhat agree

I somewhat disagree

I disagree

I disagree completely

What have you learned from this unit?

Unit 4

"SHOULD WE FORGIVE AND FORGET?"

Despite its 400-year-old context, through exploring character, setting and theme in The Tempest, we can develop new and challenge existing perspectives on what is fair and what is not.

Should we forgive and forget?

What do you know about Shakespeare?

What do you know about Shakespeare?

The Big Shakespeare Quiz

- Do not use the Internet for information !

- If you know the answer to a question, write that on a seperate piece of paper/ in a notebook

- Just answer A: I know or B: I don't know in the actual quiz for now.

- Don't look up the answers to any of these questions !

1. When was Shakespeare born?

1. I know
2. I don't know

2. Where was he born?

1. I know
2. I don't know

3. Do we know where Shakespeare went to school?

1. I know
2. I don't know

4. What were his parents' names?

1. I know
2. I don't know

5. In 1582 Shakespeare was married, but to whom?

1. I know
2. I don't know

6. Shakespeare had three children. What were their names?

1. I know
2. I don't know

7. Shakespeare died on his birthday in what year?

1. I know
2. I don't know

8. How many plays did Shakespeare write?

1. I know
2. I don't know

9. How many sonnets is he believed to have written?

1. I know
2. I don't know

10. Approximately how many new words is Shakespeare supposed to have created?

1. 150
2. 1,500
3. 3,000
4. 10,000

Collaborative task

In pairs try to answer all the questions about Shakespeare.

Click on this link to look at the first 9 questions that need to be answered.

(10 min.)

Collaborative task

1.  23rd of April 1564

2. Stratford-upon-Avon

3. Probably Stratford-upon-Avon. Grammar School

4. John and Mary

5. Anne Hathaway 

6. Hamnet, Judith, Susanna

7. 1616

8. 38 plays

9. 154 sonnets