Teaching Shakespeare? You Need These Anchor Charts! – The Rhetor's Toolbox. If you have ever taught Shakespeare’s plays or sonnets, then you know students can struggle to unlock the language and meaning of the text. The following two anchor charts have been tremendously helpful in giving my students a process to understand the Bard’s verse. In my classroom, these two posters sit side-by-side. They are the two most often-used anchor charts in my classroom. Here are my teaching points for this poster: Students need to practice reading verse in sentences, not lines. When a student is trying to determine literal vs. figurative meaning, he or she must understand the context of the image, statement, etc. If the context suggests that something is not really happening or really there, it is likely figurative. Students are entirely capable of reading and understanding Shakespeare’s works; they simply need a few tools to interpret what may feel like a “foreign” language.
I'm a high school English teacher with a passion for teaching AP Language and Composition. Twisted Shakespeare: 10 Great Film Reinterpretations. Almost 400 years since his death, cinema continues to honour the bard with imaginative adaptations. Here are some of the most inspired adaptations. Sign Up. Get More. Do More. Read the Culture Trip newsletter. Because you want to see what's out there. The Lion King (1994) Touted as the first Disney movie with an original storyline (that is, not based on folklore or fairytale), The Lion King is actually a re-telling of Hamlet. 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) Heath Ledger showed early promise, breaking hearts in this 1990s romantic comedy adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew. Warm Bodies (2013) Romeo and Juliet was translated to modern-day Florida by Baz Luhrmann (1996) and to New York ganglands in West Side Story (1961), but our pick for outside-the-box thinking is Jonathan Levine’s Warm Bodies.
Ran (1985) The most expensive film in Japanese movie history at the time of production, Ran combines King Lear with the legend of the daimyo Motonari. Much Ado About Nothing (2012) Coriolanus (2011) Famous Bible paintings - Conservapedia. Famous Bible paintings Creation of Adam Michelangelo The Building of the Ark Bertram of Minden Marriage of the Virgin Luis Juárez The Baptism of Christ Cima da Conegliano Miracle of the Bread and Fish Giovanni Lanfranco Sermon on Mount Carl Bloch The Institution of the Eucharist Joos van Wassenhove The Miraculous Draught of Fishes Konrad Witz The Descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Most Holy Mary and the Apostles The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary "Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life.
" Maya Angelou See also External links Eugene Delacroix Christ on the lake Genezareth. 10 Most Famous Religious Paintings In Western Art. Religious art uses religious themes and motifs usually having some recognizable moral narrative or attempting to induce strong spiritual emotions in the viewer. In the west, religious art may be defined as any artwork which has a Christian theme. Western religious painting is dominated by scenes from the Old Testament and from the life of Jesus Christ. Among the most commonly portrayed themes are depictions of Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus and Christ on the cross.
Many of the most famous religious paintings were created during the Renaissance, an influential cultural movement that originated in Italy. The three great masters of the Renaissance; Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael; appear several times on this list. Here are the 10 most famous religious paintings including The Last Supper, Sistine Madonna, The Return of the Prodigal Son and The Creation of Adam. #10 Transfiguration Artist: Raphael Year: 1520 #9 Christ of Saint John of the Cross Artist: Salvador Dali Year: 1951. William shakespeare famous artwork. Shakespeare in Art. To celebrate the 400th anniversary since the passing of “The Bard” (on 23rd April 1616), we put together some of our favourite images to which his plays have given rise.
The artists include William Blake, Henry Fuseli, George Cruikshank, Robert Smirke, and Franz Marc. Enjoy! The Shakespeare Deck – Robert Myles. The Shakespeare Deck is a powerful, portable toolkit for actors seeking to crack Shakespeare’s codes and wield the full power of his words, enabling you to get more from your text work, auditions and rehearsals. The deck is designed to equip you with a varied toolkit – maximising your awareness of the options available to you when exploring the text and developing a character.
The difference with this approach is that the possibilities are opened up by discoveries made in the text. Shakespeare has given you everything you need, you just need to develop the same shared knowledge his contemporaries would have had, to unlock what is coded into the very fabric of the plays. Instead of feeling like you’re fighting against the text, or imposing assumptions onto it, the deck allows you to make informed choices that work with, and enrich, what is there on the page, without limiting your creativity or ownership of the role. The Shakespeare Deck is deliberately concise, and eminently flexible. The Shakespeare Deck – Robert Myles. Shakespeare Magazine.
“The Motive and Cue for Passion”: Hamlet v. the AP Exam. Pedagogical Context/Rationale Snapchat. Insta. If Hamlet were alive today, he wouldn’t be soliloquizing, he’d be on a social media app, trying to find the perfect pose and filter to capture his state of mind. Burdened by filial obligations out the wazoo, Hamlet is paralyzed. He must hold his tongue. He is alone. He is an ass. While Hamlet still speaks to me, he needs a makeover. Most of the teaching tools I developed especially this year are with an eye towards the AP exam, but the Philosopho-Selfie is an assignment I developed last year to help my students connect with Hamlet as a character, to understand the function of his soliloquies, and to give them the chance to create “soliloquies” of their own.
Boots on the Ground Both of my AP classes have about 30 students. The exercises I gave the kids all follow. Hamlet AP practice #1- “Sullied Flesh” Soliloquy (FRQ 1) Hamlet AP Practice #2- “What a Piece of Work is a Man” (FRQ 2, 3) Hamlet AP Practice #4: “To Be or Not To Be” Dat Boi. Shakespeare - Macbeth - Ms. Audino's Website for Students. The Globe, Bankside, London Built from timbers carried across the river Thames from an older Theater, the Globe rose up in 1599 and thrived for 14 years – until "In 1613, during a performance of Henry VIII, wadding from a stage cannon ignited the thatched roof and the theater burned to the ground ‘all in less than two hours, the people having enough to do to save themselves’" (The Shakespeare Globe Trust).
A new theater with a tiled roof flourished until 1642, when Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England enacted arch conservative Puritan policies. "One of the main beliefs of the Puritans was that if you worked hard, you would get to Heaven. Pointless enjoyment was frowned upon. Cromwell shut many inns... Most sports were banned. Boys caught playing football on a Sunday could be whipped as a punishment. The Globe, on the River Thames, Bankside, London.
The River Avon and the town Stratford, Shakespeare's birthplace. Sonnets and Shakespeare - Hamlet, Macbeth and Lear - Ms. Audino's Website for Students. The Globe, Bankside, London Built from timbers carried across the river Thames from an older Theater, the Globe rose up in 1599 and thrived for 14 years – until "In 1613, during a performance of Henry VIII, wadding from a stage cannon ignited the thatched roof and the theater burned to the ground ‘all in less than two hours, the people having enough to do to save themselves’" (The Shakespeare Globe Trust).
A new theater with a tiled roof flourished until 1642, when Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England enacted arch conservative Puritan policies. "One of the main beliefs of the Puritans was that if you worked hard, you would get to Heaven. Pointless enjoyment was frowned upon. Cromwell shut many inns... Most sports were banned. Boys caught playing football on a Sunday could be whipped as a punishment. The Globe, on the River Thames, Bankside, London.
The River Avon and the town Stratford, Shakespeare's birthplace. Macbeth – BardBox. Date: 2014Posted by: SHAKESCast: Victoria Smith (Beatrice), Ellis Oswalt (Benedick), Anna Stone (Ophelia), Tim Childers (Hamlet), Cathy Koch (Juliet), Cody Sparks (Romeo)Credits: Writer/Producer/Editor: Kathryn Orsmbee; Writer/Director: Destiny Soria; Production assistants: Rebecca Campbell, Katie Carroll; Marketing: Nicole Williams; Dramaturg: Clare ThomsonDuration: 12 episodes plus two extras It is interesting to see what has been happening to the online Shakespeare video over the past four years.
In 2012 I stopped adding to this site because I thought it had gone on long enough and there wasn’t much that was new that I thought I could add (I returned in 2016). In part the aim had been to trigger academic interest in an area of Shakespeare film production which wasn’t being considered at all, at least not with any seriousness. Many of these series are adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays. SHAKES is the creation of two Americans, Kathryn Ormsbee and Destiny Soria.
SHAKESPEARIENCE Shakespearience Poster by T. E. Breitenbach - $18.00. MacBeth. Stratfordfestival. Who is Shakespeare? William Shakespeare was born in the small town of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, in 1564. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but today it is celebrated on April 23, which is the date of his death and, based on the record of his baptism, may very well also have been his birthday.
Shakespeare's father was John Shakespeare, a glover, and his mother was Mary Arden, the daughter of a wealthy farmer. Shakespeare probably attended what is now the Edward VI Grammar School. At age 18 he married a farmer's daughter, Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, born in 1583, and, two years later, the twins Hamnet (who died in childhood) and Judith. Nothing more is known of his life until 1592, when his earliest known play, the first part of Henry VI, became a hit in London, where Shakespeare had gone (without his family) to work as an actor.
Who is Shakespeare? Shakespeare probably attended what is now the Edward VI Grammar School. 4 Essentials Skills For Reading Shakespeare - David Rickert. How NOT to Hate Shakespeare | Rob Crisell | TEDxTemecula. Breaking Down the Language Barriers of Shakespeare's Plays. Lecture is not my normal teaching style, but there are a few pet peeves that will whip me into impromptu lecture mode posthaste. Perhaps the most egregious of these is when a student complains they can’t read Shakespeare because he wrote in “Old English.”
“Old English?!?” I will exclaim, then launch into a lecture about the differences between Old, Middle, and Early Modern English. If my computer is attached to the projector at the time, I will punctuate the lesson with visuals. Students do struggle with Shakespeare’s language initially, however, and I have to remember that even for my Honors sophomores my class is probably their maiden voyage into Shakespeare’s works. Fortunately, I have found an activity that helps to combat some of the initial hesitancy of approaching a work of Shakespeare. This idea came from the American Shakespeare Center’s (ASC) study guide materials. Split students into groups and give each group a copy of the Wordle and some highlighters.
5 Hamlet "To be or not to be" Soliloquies. “Word by Word”: Thinking About Close Reading, Revision, and NCTE. The title of Anne Lamott’s book on writing, Bird by Bird, comes from a family story that a favorite colleague of mine also liked to tell when she was helping students get started with their writing. As Lamott tells it, when her father saw her brother overwhelmed by the task of a report on birds that was due the next day, he sat down next to his son and told him to take the work “bird by bird.” Similarly, Lamott suggests that writers use short assignments (think about a paragraph rather than a chapter, a description rather than a character’s whole story) to overcome writer’s block or dispel writing fears. This fall, I’ve been thinking a lot about taking writing and life bird by bird. As I’ve mentioned in some previous posts, I made a big move in August, and life in a new city and a new school often forces me to live and work from moment to moment.
I can’t do the kind of long-term planning I used to because I’m living a new routine for the first time. Want to see this lesson in action? Macbeth on Trial - Mr. Chilton's English. Macbeth Trial Assignment Macbeth Trial Assignment Macbeth Trial Group Handouts Macbeth Trial Group Handouts Macbeth Annotated Quotes and Models Macbeth Trial Itinerary Macbeth Trial Itinerary Task: The Process First you will be assigned to a specific team: one group will be the defense team, one the prosecuting team. Strategies for the Trial Keep questions simple.Ask a series of short questions rather than a long, complicated one.Use the text as your most compelling evidence.Anticipate the cross examination.Limit number of witnesses to four for each sideLimit amount of time per person (10 for questioning, 10 for cross, 2 for rebuttal)Four witnesses will require four different lawyers.Every person needs to be a lawyer at least once.Each team will have a recorder, the duties rotating as each witness takes the stand.Closing arguments are limited to five to eight minutes.
Group One: Defense Attorneys You will be defending Macbeth by trying to create doubt about his competence or his actual guilt. Shakespearean Musical Chairs. My AP students enter my class having read Romeo and Juliet in ninth grade… and that’s it. No Othello in 10th. No Julius Caesar. No Hamlet. It’s the hand I’m dealt and rather than lament this, I have to get to work building skill as quickly as I can. This isn’t an easy task because Shakespeare’s language can be difficult for experienced readers, let alone ones that lack exposure. I knew I had to develop a way to reduce their inhibitions, build their close-reading skills, front load information about the play, and make it fun and inviting at the same time.
That’s when I came up with Shakespearean Musical Chairs. Before the lesson I pull the 30 best quotes from Act I and print them in 20pt font.I cut the quotes into strips. In Class Closure We do this for 20 minutes, then return to rows to make sense of it all. What is effective about this approach is twofold. I assign Act I for homework over the next few days. Application The graphic organizer must not be overlooked. Act I Macbeth quotes. How Shakespeare describes post-traumatic stress disorder. Shakespearean Musical Chairs. #2ndaryELA Chat Summary: Teaching Shakespeare & Other Plays - The Literary Maven. Shakespeare and Wordsworth boost the brain, new research reveals. The Opening Lines of Romeo and Juliet Recited in the Original Accent of Shakespeare's Time. Why I Love Teaching Shakespeare (And You Should, Too!) - Talks with Teachers.
Shakespeare. Macbeth. AP Literature and Composition. Home - Folger Education. Teaching Modules.