How do you feel about reading Shakespeare?

1. How do you feel about reading Shakespeare? Warm Up:

2. Shakespeare’s Language • Singular Pronouns • Thou - Subject: "Thou art my brother." • Thee - Object: "Come, let me clutch thee." • Thy - Possessive Adjective: "What is thy name?" • Thine - Possessive Noun: "To thine own self be true."

3. The funny verb endings… • -st –est –t • Used to show 2nd person • Talking to someone • Thou hast to do thine schoolwork. • -t, -th, -eth/ -s • Used to show 3rd person (closer to what we use now) • Talking about someone • She hath to do her homework.

4. Word inventor • Shakespeare is credited with creating over 1700 of our common words • Change the part of speech • Combine words • Adding prefixes or suffixes • Making up wholly original words

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6. Word Order • Shakespeare was very particular in his word order. He may have been trying to • Create a specific rhythm • Emphasize a certain word • Give a character a specific speech pattern

7. What would a Shakespeare sentence look like? • Peace brings a glooming this it morning with • "A glooming peace this morning with it brings.” • Give an that did Egyptian handkerchief my to mother • "That handkerchief did an Egyptian to my mother give." • Thou shape thy still invisible retain • "Thy shape invisible retain thou still."

8. Questions to answer • What do hip hop and Shakespeare share? • How does Akala vocalize the rhythm? • Is the Queen’s English of today the same as when Shakespeare spoke it? • What percentage of Shakespeare’s audience couldn’t read or write? • What theory does Akala present that addresses the debate that Shakespeare didn’t write his own works? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSbtkLA3GrY

9. Two Language Perspectives • Your task is create a modern day conversation that would be found in a cartoon of 4 panels. After you create this conversation, you have to translate it into a Shakespearean conversation. Shakespeare Language Panel 1 Modern