Introduction to Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare? or Gulielmus Shakspere? or William Shakspere? Or William Shaxper?
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William Shakespeare? or Gulielmus Shakspere? or William Shakspere? Or William Shaxper?

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Even Shakespeare himself spelt his surname in two different ways,
Shakspere and Shakspeare, when signing his name on documents.
The variety in the spelling of names was not unusual. 
His baptism name is "Gulielmus = william" shakspere
Today

Learn about William Shakespeare and his influence




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What do you already know about William Shakespeare?

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Answer the questions on the worksheet when watching the video

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Answers
  1. B
  2. C
  3. B
  4. B
  5. C
  6. B
  7. C
  8. A
  9. C

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In pairs: send in words that are "new" words/phrases of this generation? They can be Dutch or English. (keep it clean please)

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Look at these words

Which of these words do you know? What do they mean?
Talk about it for 1 minute
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1:00

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Shakespeare invented words?
  • 1,700
  • All invented by Shakespeare?

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Across all of his written works, it’s estimated that words invented by Shakespeare number as many as 1,700. We say these are words invented by Shakespeare , though in reality many of these 1,700 words would likely have been in common use during the Elizabethan and Jacobean era, just not written down prior to Shakespeare using them in his plays, sonnets and poems. In these cases Shakespeare would have been the first known person to document these words in writing.
What do we now know about William Shakespeare?

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Assignment
You are going to create a short Shakespearian style performance

There are three parts: 2 characters
                                                     at least one insult
                                                      at least one death 

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1njEzasxQRPuBtZ3P9p3IHDdYUF61RJIi539bpRilgXk/edit?usp=sharing in classroom
But, there's a twist!
  1. You answer the first 3 questions and start writing your story
  2. After 40 seconds you hand your laptop to the next person, to continue writing your story.Swap laptops back and continue your story
  3. etc.
  4. At the end you have got 2 stories together

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Insults


Thee - person you are talking to
Thou - you
Thine - your
Wouldst - you would

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Dizzy eyed bugbear

Long tongu'd gossip!

Half-faced hedge pig

Spongy pignut

Fly bitten dog fish



You Banbury cheese!

Disgusting foot licker!

Lump of foul deformity!

More ear wax than brain!

Mountain of mad flesh


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Start working
  1. You answer the first 3 questions and start writing your story
  2. After 40 seconds you hand your laptop to the next person, to continue writing your story.Swap laptops back and continue your story
  3. etc.
  4. At the end you have got 2 stories together
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0:40

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Performance time!
  1. Pick one of your stories
  2. You each get to pick a role
  3. Rehearse your play
  4. Think about what props/moves you could add in this classroom to support your act
  5. We will watch a few of your plays in class
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1:00

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