TAMING OF THE SHREW: PICK YOUR PONY RIVERA AND ROULE Shakespeare 1 st Period

Standards  RL Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.  RL Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.  RL Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed)

Pick Your Pony  Reading Companion Assignment  THIS IS IN ADDITION TO YOUR CURRENT JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT FOR TAMING OF THE SHREW

VIDEO REPRESENTATION  Youtube link  =ys4f2wXgrr8&list=PL9C4B E52 =ys4f2wXgrr8&list=PL9C4B E52 (Part 1 through 5 minimum)

Reflection Quickwrite  How close does the film version come to your own visualization of the text?  What do you think the director chose to change what he did?  Is there something missing or added that you agree or disagree with?  Support your observations and details with examples from the text.

Reading Schedule  Act 3 Scene 1 for Tuesday (Tomorrow)  Act 3 Scene 2 for Thursday  Quiz on Act 3 on Friday

TAMING OF THE SHREW: SEXISM RIVERA AND ROULE Shakespeare 1 st Period

Standards  RL Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.  RL Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.  RL Analyze the impact of the author’s choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed)

Bellringer:  What instances of sexism have you noticed so far in the text?

Sexism  1: prejudice or discrimination based on sex; especially: discrimination against women  2: behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex

Examples: TRANIO(aside to LUCENTIO) Husht, master, here’s some good pastime toward. That wench is stark mad or wonderful froward. LUCENTIO(aside to TRANIO) But in the other’s silence do I see Maid’s mild behavior and sobriety.

GRUMIO(to HORTENSIO) Nay, look you, sir, he tells you flatly what his mind is. Why, give him gold enough and marry him to a puppet or an aglet- baby, or an old trot with ne'er a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two-and-fifty horses. Why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.

GRUMIO(to HORTENSIO) I pray you, sir, let him go while the humor lasts. O' my word, an she knew him as well as I do, she would think scolding would do little good upon him. She may perhaps call him half a score knaves or so. Why, that’s nothing; an he begin once, he’ll rail in his rope tricks. I’ll tell you what sir: an she stand him but a little, he will throw a figure in her face and so disfigure her with it that she shall have no more eyes to see withal than a cat. You know him not, sir.

BAPTISTA Ay, when the special thing is well obtained, That is, her love, for that is all in all. PETRUCHIO Why, that is nothing. For I tell you, father, I am as peremptory as she proud-minded; And where two raging fires meet together, They do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

PETRUCHIO Ay, to the proof, as mountains are for winds, That shakes not, though they blow perpetually.  (referring to Kate’s unpleasantness)

PETRUCHIO Yes, I intend to keep myself warm, sweet Katherine—in your bed… I swear by this light, which shows me your beauty—the beauty that makes me love you—that you must be married to no man but me. I’m the man who was born to tame you and change you from a wildcat Kate into a Kate as gentle and domestic as other household Kates.

PETRUCHIO Be patient, gentlemen. I choose her for myself. If she and I be pleased, what’s that to you? 'Tis bargained ’twixt us twain, being alone, That she shall still be curst in company… O, you are novices! 'Tis a world to see, How tame, when men and women are alone, A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.