Shakespeare Set Free A Series of 5 Presentations @FolgerED
Shakespeare Set Free Act I How Pre-reading Strategies and Activities that Focus on Language Will Ease Your Students into Shakespeare
Folger Education Presenters Peggy O’Brien, Director of Education Mike LoMonico, Sr. Consultant on National Education Heather Lester, Teacher at International High School, NYC
Tone O
Definition of Tone int. Expressing (according to intonation) surprise, frustration, discomfort, longing, disappointment, sorrow, relief, hesitation, etc. Used mainly in imperative, optative, or exclamatory sentences or phrases, as in O take me back again!, O for another glimpse of it!, O the pity of it!, O dear!; often also emphatically in O yes, O no, O indeed, etc The Oxford English Dictionary
Your Turn O
surprised
Angry
afraid
exhausted
sad
suspicious
excited
awe
lusty
contempt
Definition of Stress Relative loudness or force of vocal utterance; a greater degree of vocal force characterizing one syllable as compared with other syllables of the word, or one part of a syllable as compared with the rest; stress-accent. Also, superior loudness of voice as a means of emphasizing one or more of the words of a sentence more than the rest. Oxford English Dictionary
I didn’t say he killed our King
I didn’t say he killed our King
I didn’t say he killed our King
I didn’t say he killed our King
I didn’t say he killed our King
I didn’t say he killed our King
I didn’t say he killed our King
How many ways can you say this line? I shall, in all my best, obey you, Madam. Hamlet 1.2
Some lines from Shakespeare
O, how I love thee! how I dote on thee! (lusty)
O, for a stone-bow, to hit him in the eye! (angry)
O, I am out of breath in this fond chase! (exhausted)
O, I am fortune’s fool! (regret)
O, speak again, bright angel! (lusty)
O lamentable day! (misery)
O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! (excited)
O me, O me! My child, my only life. (distraught)
O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied? (disappointed)
O God! did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood? (fear)
O God! did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood? (horror)
O God! did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood? (sorrow)
O God! did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood? (anger)
O God! did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?
O God! did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?
O God! did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?
O God! did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?
O God! did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?
O God! did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?
Our play is done! (relief)