Exploring Shakespeare's Plays: Paraphrasing and Analyzing Syntax
Dive into Shakespeare's plays by transforming lines into the common S-V-O pattern, analyzing how suffixes impact word function, and practicing comprehension strategies like paraphrasing. Discover how dialogue and incidents in plays reveal character aspects and propel action as intended by Shakespeare himself.
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Bellringer: Lets Review Invert each lines from Shakespeare s plays into the common S-V-O pattern (on slides 1 & 2). Be ready to share out. Lines from Hamlet Inverted to S-V-O pattern. Queen Gertrude: Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended. Hamlet: Mother, you have my father much offended.
Bellringer: Lets Review Lines from Antony & Cleopatra Inverted to S-V-O pattern. Antony: I must from this enchanting queen break off;/ Ten thousand harms, more than the ills I know,/ My idleness doth hatch. Now paraphrase it!
This weeks activity Changing words Though suffixes don t alter a words meaning, they do have an important job. Suffixes change how a word functions in a sentence.
Process Step 1 Choose a step 3 word Step 2 Change the words suffixes to create new forms of the word Step 3 Construct a sentence with at least 3 variations of the word. The sentence context should remain the same, focus on moving the word repeat Do this 3 times.
Outcome: I can comprehend complicated texts by paraphrasing and analyzing syntax. I can analyze how: dialogue or incidents in a play propel action, reveal aspects of character, or provoke a decision.
How did Shakespeare intend for his works to be experienced?
Comprehension Strategies: Paraphrase I can comprehend complicated texts by paraphrasing and analyzing syntax. Shakespearan Text My Paraphrase What say you, Hermia? Be advised, fair maid. To you, your father should be as a god,/ One that composed your beauties, yea, and one/ To whom you are but as a form in wax/ By him imprinted, and within his power/ Demetrius is a worthy gentleman.
Comprehension Strategies: Paraphrase I can comprehend complicated texts by paraphrasing and analyzing syntax. Shakespearan Text A soliloquy from Act I, scene I Stand forth, Lysander: and my gracious duke,/ This man hath bewitch d the bosom of my child;/ Thou hast given her rhymes,/ And interchanged love tokens with my child./ My Paraphrase
Independent: Priority: Work with a peer to finish paraphrasing Egeus soliloquy. Turn in Step 3 vocabulary. Finish AECR response *Due at end of class; however, if you are done now and want to engage in a peer edit, you may submit Monday, but you must submit your 1st draft and your revisions. Read an independent novel
Closure Let s share our paraphrase of Egeus complaint to Theseus in lines 27-36. Fist Assessment: How well How well did you do? did you do? 3: I m getting a hang of these two strategies to aid my comprehension of the text. 2:With a little more practice I ll almost have it! 1:I m wondering what in the world we are doing.
