The Bard

• Eng
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Prepare your scene

• Check your scene with the rubric.
• Study your lines.

How to Memorize Shakespeare

• Imaging the text: act out the images.
• Say it as if you are worried / you want everyone to know / etc.
• Get a partner to whisper the lines while you repeat.
• Listen for the beat in the text (iambic pentameter).

This is one of Shakespeare's sonnets turned into a rap. 

Watch and learn.

Scene

•  The performance should last 5-7 minutes. 
• You may ask extras from other groups. 
• One of your players is the “Chorus”.
•  Everyone has a proper speaking part which is big enough to be graded.
• You can change the setting and update the text to your liking. As long as it remains as dynamic, dramatic, and entertaining as possible, while remaining true to Shakespeare's spirit. 
• Use of props will be rewarded!

Welcome!

obscene, laughable, lonely, apostrophe, assassination, generous, gloomy, hurry, exposure, eyeball, misplaced, pious, majestic

What do these words have in common?

Introduction to Shakespeare

In two parts

Part 1: Make a poster about a Shakespeare play (in pairs)

Part 2: Perform a Shakespeare scene (groups of four or less)

But first...

The Bard invented a huge amount of words still used today.

"Villain, I have done thy mother"

He was a genious at inventing insults. Take a look at the following Shakespearian insults and try to come up with a present day situation in which you could use them.

"Thine face is not worth sunburning."
Taken from Henry v

"Take you me for a sponge?"
Taken from Hamlet

Part 1 of the assignment: Make a poster

Yes, this is for a grade (1/3 to be exact)

Make a poster 

Let's check out the assignment in Moodle.

1.     A Midsummer night’s dream (act 3 scene 1)

2.     Hamlet (act 5, scene 2)

3.     The tempest (act1, scene 2)

4.     Julius Caesar (act 3, scene 1)

5.     The Merchant of Venice (act 4, scene 1)

6.     Othello (act 3, scene 3)

7.     Macbeth (act 1, scene 7)

8.     King Lear (act 3 scene 7)

9.     Richard III (act 1, scene 2)

10.  Titus Andronicus (act 5, scene 3)

11.     Romeo and Juliet (act 2, scene 2)

Poster (present on 13 April)

• 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!

Poster (present on 6 April)

• 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!

Spoiler: everyone dies at the end 

Short assignment (10 minutes)

Not for a grade: this is on life and death.

1. Go to Moodle. 
2. Pick a death scene 
3. Perform your chosen death scene in pairs.
   
4. When you are dead, stay dead until everyone is dead.