MYP1 02-02-23

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 1

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Some Theory

Iambic Pentameter

video about Iambic Pentameter

Some Theory

Exploring Context

Activity

Finish reading the texts and watching the video.

Also answer the questions about the iambic pentameter.

Do some background research on life in the late 16th century:

What were the living conditions like?/ education wealth/poverty/ theater

other writers (contemporaries of Shakespeare)

Sonnet 18

Activity: What is a Sonnet?

1. Click on the link 

2. Read Sonnet 18

3. Answer the questions

Another Video

Another take on Sonnet 18

Watch the following video

Make notes about the things that you find interesting, that strike you, that you want to take away from this clip.

Have Fun!

Tragedy, Comedy, History or...

Let's have a look at the following activity.

Create a document and work through questions 1&2.

For 1, make a table and link the term to the definition.

For 2, Make a table with in the first column the title of the play and in the second column the category:

tragedy, comedy, history or problem play.

Let's read the following text

page 133

page 134

Activity: Shakespeare's Women

Work on the following activity.

Look up words you don't yet know.

Answer the questions.

Vocab

Looking at the words from the Activity: Shakespeare's women

Do these words have a negative or a positive connotation?

Beautiful

1. Positive
2. Negative

Majestic

1. Positive
2. Negative

Melancholy

1. Positive
2. Negative

Powerful

1. Positive
2. Negative

Submissive

1. Positive
2. Negative

Sad

1. Positive
2. Negative

Strong

1. Positive
2. Negative

Triumphant

1. Positive
2. Negative

Virtuous

1. Positive
2. Negative

Vulnerable

1. Positive
2. Negative

Weak

1. Positive
2. Negative

Wicked

1. Positive
2. Negative

Activity: Wonder Women

Portia

Desdemona

Viola

Queen Margaret

Cordelia

Wonder Women

Let's talk about the activity

So which IB Learner Profile would you link to the female characters you analysed?

Portia

Desdemona

Viola

Queen Margaret

Cordelia

Speeches in Shakespeare

1. Read this text 

(Why are there so many speeches in Shakespeare's plays?)

2.  Read this text

(step by step guide)

3. Read this text

(Isn't it ironic)

Homework Activity

The Art of Rhetoric

Mark Anthony's Speech

Video Link 

An extra video link