tanias shakespeare class: 2008

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Activity 16 Choosing Key Scenes for Adaptation and Performance

Activity 15-Podcasting the Shakespeare

Choose 1 speech 5-10lines and record as a podcast using garageband.
This is due Tomorrow, Wednesday the 22nd at 2pm.
Use today's study hall to complete.

Save on your computer and/or email to Mr. Rossi
or have him place it on his thumbdrive to post to your blog
Extrapoints for a video podcast, Youtubed and posted

JULIET

Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face,

Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek

For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night

Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny

What I have spoke: but farewell compliment!

Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,'

And I will take thy word: yet if thou swear'st,

Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries

Then say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo,

If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully:

Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won,

I'll frown and be perverse an say thee nay,

So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world.

In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond,

And therefore thou mayst think my 'havior light:

But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true

Than those that have more cunning to be strange.

I should have been more strange, I must confess,

But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware,

My true love's passion: therefore pardon me,

And not impute this yielding to light love,

Which the dark night hath so discovered.

Activity 14 Storyboard the Heck out of it!

Now storyboard the whole play in 20 pictures. Stick Figures would be your best bet. You have 1 hour to do this.
This must be posted by 210pm today. Good Luck.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

This weekend's homework! Activity 12

"Coming Soon: __(Romeo and Juliet)_"DON'T MISS IT!!

Cheerio,
ME

CHARACTERS:
Sampson
Gregory
Abraham
Balthasar
Benvolio
Tybalt
Citizens
Capulet
Lady Capulet
Montague
Lady Montague
Prince Escalus
Romeo
Rosaline
Paris
Clown
Juliet
Juliet's Nurse
Servingman
Mercutio
Servants of Capulet
Musicians.
Second Capulet
Page to Tybalt.
Friar Laurence.
Peter
Page to Mercutio.
Petruchio
Apothecary.
Friar John.
Page to Paris.
The Watch.

QUOTES:

"Is love a tender thing? it is too rough,
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn."Romeo, Act I, scene iv

"O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet."Juliet, Act II, scene ii

"No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as
a church door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for
me to-morrow and you shall find me a grave man. I am
peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o'both
your houses!" (III.1.94-98)

"My only love, sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me
That I must love a loathed enemy." (I.5.139-142

"Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow"

"My only love sjprung form my only hate; too early unknown and known too laste."

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Activity 11 Othello Act 5 sc. 2

OTHELLO.
It is the cause my soul,--
does not let me tell you, I'm not gonna blame fortune on the stars!--
It is the cause.--Yet I'll not kill her;
Nor hurt her skin that is whiter then snow,
And smooth as monumental white stone.

[Takes off his sword.]

she must die, before she betrays more men.
he is going to put out the light of her life:
If I quench the, thou flaming minister[confused],
I can again the former light restore,
Should I regret it:- once i kill her,
Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,
i don't know the Promethean heat
That can turn on the light of life. When I have killed,
I cannot give it life again,
It must needs water:--I'll smell it on the tree.--

Othello Stick Figure Theatre! Activity 10

Get into groups of two. We shall Each Draw a stick figure story board using Windows Paint! Each group is assigned an ACT. Each act gets its own story board. I'll show you how!

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Iago...say what? Activity 9 Due Tomorrow at the begining of class.

Therefore I will forever make Rodrigo my money (because he is an idiot); I will continue to gain from my knowlege and i shouldnt speak against it. If i would spend timme with such moron, I only do it for money and for fun.

I hate Othello, and it is thought-in other countries that between my sheets, Otherllo is with my wife. I dont know if it is true, but i willl take it for certain.

Othello trust me; great now my plan to ruin his life will be all that much easier. Cassio's a good guy. Let me see now:To get his place, and to make something not a big deal huge. How? How? Let's see.After some time, to convince him that he is too familiar with his wife. He has a wife that is a lier.The Moor is of a free and open nature. That thinks that all men are honest by the way they look but that are not honest.And will as tenderly be led by the nose As asses are.I have it! It is engendered! Hell and night Must bring this ugly birth to the world's light. [Exit.](Iago's soliloquy, "Othello," Act 1, Scene 3, lines 374-395)

Follow along!

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Ahead of His Time by Streeter Seidell on June 23, 2008

Producer: William, we must speak with each other of this new play you've written.
Shakespeare: Ah, yes. My latest is the tale of a...
Producer: Yes...yes, the story is fine. More than fine, William. It's just that we at The Globe take issue with some of your word choices.
Shakespeare: Alas, my words are not a choice! My quill is the true scribe of this volume, I merely act as interpreter!
Producer: Right...right. Yet, we can't help but notice that numerous words in this play just aren't - how shall I put this tenderly - words. You've invented them, have you not?
Shakespeare: Someday, sir, these words will be as normal as a cloud in the sky or a rat in your stew!
Producer: Someday, perhaps. But not now. Listen, William, it wouldn't be such a problem if these words had a discernible meaning. But "lackluster", "impede", "tranquil"? I couldn't even begin to imagine what sort of intention lies therein.
Shakespeare: Sir, you're acting as a muddlelump! Simply read the words in context!
Producer: Have you lost your miggle, sir? To call me a muddlelump only serves to illustrate what a billyham you're behaving as.
Shakespeare: Billyham?! You sir, can count yourself lucky I am an honorable plebicanian or I would have your nose betwixt my two figglers. So help me God, I shall not be spoken to with such...such qual!
Producer: William, please calm yourself. If these kind of hannyhocks continue I fear this meeting will dissolve into fistifinks, and neither you nor I are the sort for that.
Shakespeare: You are correct, sir. I apologize. When my wenny is up I fear I can become a bit hornish. But I appeal to you on bended knick, please allow the play to be staged with its original words in tact.
Producer: I just don't know, William. "Gloomy"? "Elbow?" "Advertising," for God's sake? You believe the audience will be able to ascertain your intended point?
Shakespeare: Certigishly.
Producer: Well, if you feel so strongly about it, I will let the play go on as written. But I fear for its reception, William. It may be many years before the populace at large understands an utterance such as "bandit."
Shakespeare: We shall see, shall we not? Good day to you, sir. Bestbigsby!
Producer: Bestbigsby, William.

Othello, what's the scenario? Activity 8 Due Tuesday @ 4pm

1. The main character, Daniela, has decided to marry someone from a race and/or religion that her father won’t approve. She knows there is going to be a big scene. Describe the scene and write the dialogue that could occur between Daniela, her father, and her husband-to-be.

2. There is a party. The main character, Riccardo (a generally good guy!), knows that he shouldn’t drink because he has to go to work in an hour. The Group he’s with tries to convince him that “a drink or two won’t hurt.” Riccardo goes to work and because he’s been drinking he starts a fight with a fellow employee. The boss enters. Describe the scene and write the dialogue that could occur between Riccardo, his boss, and his co-workers.

His boss will yell at him and ask him what his problem is? Also he might face the chance of getting fired.

3. The main character, Giuseppe, has given his girlfriend a special ring (one that means a lot to him. He sees his best friend wearing it. Describe the scene and write the dialogue that could occur between Joe and his girlfriend or between Giuseppe and his best friend (You can change this around to make the main character a girl).

4. The main character, Nicola, has had a bad fight with his best friend, Antonio. Antonio won’t return any of Nicola's phone calls and avoids him at school. Nicola sees his best friend’s girlfriend, Gianna, at school. Describe the scene and write dialogue where Nicola asks Gianna for her help.

5. Roberto has worked hard to play on Varsity. He knows he’s good! He’s shown up for all the games and practices. The position that he wants goes to Guliermo, whose father is a friend of the coach. Describe the scene and write the dialogue where Roberto tells his friends how he feels.

6. Anna and her boyfriend aren’t doing well together but she is still really in love with him. She finds an inexpensive ring that a friend of hers has lost. She knows it’s a ring that her boyfriend has always admired and said that he would like to own one like it. Describe the scene and write the story (or monologue/ dialogue) were Anna makes her decision about what she is going to do with the ring.

You are going to write a short play based on the previous situation that has been assigned. Choose one of the beginnings of a plot. In this play you are to create a drama of the situation through description and dialogue.

PLAY TITLE:_________The Secret Love Escape___________________________________

Characters and description of each:

Character 1 Daniela-She is the main character, having to face her father and tell her dad that she loves a christian

Character 2 Jorge- a guy truly in love with Daniela they plan to escape if they arnt allowed to be together.

Character 3 Drake- Danielas dad wants his daughter to marry a Muslim like her and not a guy from another religion

Character 4 Melinda- Jorge mom wants him to be happy with the girl he loves

Stage directions: (Where is it set? What does the stage look like? What props are there? Who is on stage when the curtain rises? What are they going?)

It was a cold early morning in the city of Lincoln, Nebraska. Two young teens decided to go for a walk in a nearby park. The guy saw the girl and completely fell for her. He knew that he needed to go and talk to her.

jorge- Hi hows your day today? By the way my name is Nathan and yours?

Daniela- Daniela and its going good today, well so far.

Jorge-and so you live near by here?

Daniela- yeah just 4 blocks away from her & you?

Jorge-yeah same just the opposite direction.

and so their conversation went on for hours it even seemed like as they had known each-other all their life. They even set up a date to see eachother the following day. They saw eachother everyday for a whole month until.

Jorge- would you like to be my girlfriend?

Daniela- yes !!

It had been many years since they hadn't had a truly good and enjoyable conversation. In facts It didn't take long before they fell deeply in love with each-other.

Untill one day after all the ups and downs they realized they were truly in love with eachother.

Jorge- Do you want to marry me?

Daniela- yes of course i would..in fact i would love to but my parents would never accept the fact that need to be together and forever!

Jorge- well they will just have to deal with it

Daniela- its not that simple

Daniela- I know them and i know that no matter what they will never accept our marriage

Jorge- just give me a chance and let me talk to them

Daniela- (sigh) alright

An early saturday morning. At Danielas parents house.

Daniela- mom dad ..this is jorge

Parents- hi nice to meet you. Are you one of Danielas friends?

Daniela- [scared look on the face]

Jorge- no, her boyfriend

Parents- WHAT!! excuse me but you dont appear to be muslim

Daniela- mom, dad..

Jorge- no Daniela. i came here for a reason so please let me explain to your parents why i am here

Jorge- i would like to marry your daughter

Daniela- yes and i want to marry him!

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Activity 7: Letter to the parents of Capulets and Montagues

Using the "Office of Christian Parents" from yesterday as a guide for parenting youths, please write a letter to either the Capulet or Montague parents regarding their children's behavior in Act 3, sc. i as we have seen today and read last night. Use specific examples/ advice from "Office.." to bolster your point.

It should include:

A. Proper greeting
B. 3 specific Citations from "Office..."
C. Proper Closing

The Capulets live at:

Palazzo Capulet
45 Via Figliapersa
West Verona, IT 10001

The Montagues:

Casa Montague
2333 Via Rubicuore
East Verona, IT 20002

Use the following link to help you in your drafting of this letter. THE OWL AT PURDUE.

Due Thursday @ 4pm.

Email this letter to me as well as post it to your Blog.

Capulet Family
Palazzo Capulet
45 Via Figliapersa
West Verona, IT 10001

July 9, 2008

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Capulet

First of all I would like to thank you for taking your time to read my letter. Well I am Writing to you concerning your daughter Juliet. As you know that in the guide of good Christan Parents it states everything you as a parent should prevent your child from doing to become a good Christian like you, but I am sorry inform you that your loved Juliet is not acting the correct way that a good christian should be acting.

As you might or might not know it was because of her that the tragic fight with Tybalt and one of the Montague's occurred so as you may have read, in the guide it states that a female is not a good Christian if she causes a triangle of problems between two males and that is exactly what she did so I am suggesting you to be more strict with her and read the guide with her so she understands that what she has been doing is not right.

Well also, I know I shouldn't be bringing this subject up but Tybalt's parents as well did not follow the guide on how to grow a good Christian because he fought in the street "Therefore the Christian gentleman considering these things, that they may be fitted both in peace and war, to profit their country, and further Christianity" and that was not the correct thing to do which led to an unfortunate ending. And all this started as well because of your daughter Juliet's influence over the two guys which is not right and it is stated in the guide. Well thank you for your time and I hope you stop Juliet from this inappropriate actions.

Sincerely,

Tania Sanchez
5463 Main St.
Phoenix, AZ. 95465

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Students, you will present your ppt.s tomorrow. I expect greatness. Today will be workshop central. We will be:

1. Finishing up assignments 5 and 6 from yesterday.
2. Finishing up Our PowerPoints from last week.
a. Turning them into .mov files and posting them to Youtube, then posting them on our Bardblogs- I will show you how to do this in class.
3. Writing a letter to the Montagues or Capulets regarding the behavior of their children. After we read and perform 3,1 of Romeo and Juliet. This is activity 7.
4. We will also be working on proper citation.

Monday, July 7, 2008

Who Wrote Shakespeare's plays? Activity 5

CLICK HERE AND YOU DECIDE

Please write a 250 word blog post to your blog in response to the question:

Did Shakespeare write his own plays

Please find and cite two additional sources to support your opinion.

Start here and here and here and here

or go to npr.org to

Shakespeare's plays do seem like he wrote them on his own. Anyways there has been a lot of evidence that shows he did write his own plays. Besides his work has already been checked by a method called computational stylistics because in his writing he would use certain words more often then others and also he liked combining two words together or having one after the other very constantly. Also there is people who say the he wasn't as educated enough to be able to think of so different ways of writing but then they other people also thought about why someone would want to give someone else credit for what they worked on. Anyways there is other scientific methods to tell if there is a change in writing in a play, poem, or quote. But I do understand the point that someone might be thinking that he as a not really rich educated guy would think up so many creative ways of writing poems and plays.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2006/1760579.htm

Just Like Romeo and Juliet... Activity 6

Printing fonts and handwriting techniques have changed greatly in 400 years. Please read the following:

"The Office of Christian Parents: The Ordering of Sonnes from Fourteene Yeare Old and Upward"

On your blog, type your observations as to the visual style - letters, punctuation, spelling - of this document from 1616 from one that is contemporary.

We will discuss this together in class.

If you finish early, please read Romeo and Juliet ACT 3, 1

Then get in a group of 3-4 people around you.

Welcome Back!

Wow reading what was written is 1616 was a bit complicated. It took the class a very long time to read just one page ..i can't imaging how long it would take to read a whole book of them. The spelling was different the word us looked like vs and the s would like an l. Some things bearly made sense others seemed like they had nothing to ldo in the piece of writting. Also at times I was lost and it was not very easy to picture what was going on in the text because most of the time i had to be concentrating on what the word was and how to say it correctly.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Play Research Activity 4

You are to research one of the following plays:

Macbeth
Hamlet
Othello
A Midsummernight's Dream
As You Like it
Much Ado About Nothing

You are to turn it into a PowerPoint for a presentation to be due Wed. of next week.
Email me for a copy of the PowerPoint to base your's off of.

Assignment 3

Finding the Fun in the Pun
Below are some lines from some of William Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. You will find a pun in each set of lines in bold print. On the lines below each quote, briefly explain the pun as you think Shakespeare might have intended for his audience. Remember, a pun can be a humorous play on words that look or sound alike, but have different meanings. Look at the hints provided and just take a minute to "think about it!"

1. "No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door, but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man." Romeo and Juliet (Act iii, S.1) Hint:
Grave=serious, dead, sad.
i think he was meaning that juliet had found a serious man.

2. I'll make a ghost of him that lets me!" Hamlet (Act i, S.4) Hint: In Shakespeare's day, "let"
meant "hinder," and today means the opposite, "allow."
hamlet means that he will do something bad to the person who doesn't allow him to do what he wants to do.

3. "If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I." Henry IV, Part On (Act ii, S.4) Hint: "Reason" was pronounced "raisin" in Shakespeare's day.
he is saying that

4. "Give me a torch: I am not for this ambling; Being but heavy, I will bear the light." Romeo and Juliet (Act i, S.4) Hint: Heavy = in a bad mood; Light = not weighing much; a torch.
i think he means that he wants to carry something light so that it wont take him much time like a slow walk.

Assignment 2

Everything Old is New Again!
Translating Early Modern English into Modern English
Below are some lines from some of William Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, written in Early
Modern English. On the lines below each quote, translate each sentence into Modern English, as we might speak it today.

"To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou can'st not then be false to any man." Hamlet, Act i, Sc.3

Be truthful to yourself and others always night and day. You can't fool people.

"What is best, that best I wish in thee." Troilus & C, Act ii, Sc.2

I wish you the best that there is.

"Safe may'st thou wander, safe return again!" Cymbeline, Act iii, Sc.5

I hope you walk safely so that you return safely.
"Give me thy hand, 'tis late; farewell, good night." Rom & Jul, Act iii, Sc.3

Its late so give farewell me with your hand good night.

"Have more than though showest; speak less than thou knowest; lend less than thou owest." K Lear, Act i, Sc.4
Have more then what you show. Speak less then what you know. Lend less then what you own.

"Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear, thy dial how thy precious minutes waste."
Sonnet 77
the glass will show you how beautiful you are, the dial shows the precious minutes that get wasted.

"This above all: to thine own self be true." Hamlet, Act i, Sc.3

Above everything to our own selves we have to be true.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

COMPUTER CLASSWORK

Computer on classwork
Word order in Shakespearean Writing When Shakespeare wrote his prose, he often used a slightly different word order than we are used to. The subject, verb, and object did not always follow in a 1, 2, 3 order. Look at the following sentence. Rewrite the sentence four times, changing the word order each time. Put one word on each blank provided below the original sentence. Original Sentence: I lost my homework. Rewrite #1: homework my i lost. Rewrite #2: lost i my homework. Rewrite #3: my i lost my homework . Rewrite #4: i my homework lost. Look at each of your rewritten sentences above. Has the meaning of the original sentence changed? No matter how you word it...you're toast if your homework is lost! Now, think about how Yoda speaks in the Star Wars Movies. We understood exactly what he was saying, even though the word order was slightly different than what we are used to hearing. It's your turn to makeup a short sentence like the one above and rewrite it several different ways. Does the meaning change with the rewrites? Share your sentences. Original Sentence: i want vanilla ice cream

Rewrite #1:vanilla ice want i cream.

Rewrite #2: cream want ice i vanilla.

Rewrite #3: want vanilla cream ice i.

Rewrite#4: ice want vanilla cream i.

Biography of William Shakespeare

Shakespeare was born around April 23, 1564 in Stratford-Upon-Avon. William was
baptized on the 26th of April of the year 1554. He was an english poet and a play writer.
His father named John Shakespeare worked as a glove maker and as a wool maker. His mother
named Mary Arden was a daughter of a local landowner. They were middle class people.
Shakespeare was educated in Stratford grammar school. He wrote numerous highly successful
quoted dramatic works and the famous 154 sonnets. Around the year 1582 he married Anne
Hathway who was the daughter of a farmer.
They had a daughter named Susanna a year after they got married and later on in the
year 1585 they had twins named Hamnet and Judith. After that there came
a time period that no records of him were found called the "lost years". In the year 1592 it was known
that he was working in a theatre. He spent his acting career in the lord of chambelains company that was
later renamed The Kings Company around the year 1603. Two of his poems were published in 1593 & 1594.
His poetry was published before his plays. His plays are recorded to have started in the year 1594.
He would usually produce two plays a year until the year 1611. His first plays were 'Hernry VI' and Titus 'Andronicus'.
His most famous tragedies were Hamlet, Othello, King lear, and Macbeth around the early year of 1600s.
In the last five years of his life he spent them in Stratford, he was a wealthy man. He died on the 23 of April
of the year 1616.

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