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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 2 nd person Talking to someone Thou hast to do thine schoolwork. -t, -th, -eth/ -s Used to show 3 rd 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 it a glooming this brings 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 1. What do hip hop and Shakespeare share? 2. How does Akala vocalize the rhythm? 3. Is the Queen’s English of today the same as when Shakespeare spoke it? 4. What percentage of Shakespeare’s audience couldn’t read or write? 5. 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. Panel 1 Shakespeare Language Shakespeare Language Modern


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