How do you feel about reading Shakespeare? Warm Up:

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."

The funny verb endings… -st –est –t Used to show 2nd person Talking to someone Thou hast to do thine schoolwork. -t, -th, -eth/ -s Used to show 3rd person (closer to what we use now) Talking about someone She hath to do her homework.

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

academe accused addiction advertising amazement arouse assassination backing bandit bedroom beached besmirch birthplace blanket bloodstained Barefaced blushing bet bump buzzer caked cater champion circumstantial cold-blooded compromise courtship countless critic dauntless dawn deafening discontent dishearten drugged dwindle epileptic equivocal elbow excitement exposure eyeball fashionable fixture flawed frugal generous gloomy gossip green-eyed gust hint hobnob hurried impede impartial invulnerable jaded label lackluster laughable lonely lower luggage lustrous madcap majestic marketable metamorphize mimic monumental moonbeam mountaineer negotiate noiseless Obscene obsequiously ode olympian outbreak panders pedant premeditated puking radiance rant remorseless savagery scuffle secure skim milk submerge summit swagger torture tranquil undress unreal varied vaulting worthless zany gnarled grovel

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

What would a Shakespeare sentence look like? Peace brings 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."

Questions to answer What do hip hop and Shakespeare share? How does Akala vocalize the rhythm? Is the Queen’s English of today the same as when Shakespeare spoke it? What percentage of Shakespeare’s audience couldn’t read or write? What theory does Akala present that addresses the debate that Shakespeare didn’t write his own works? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSbtkLA3GrY

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. Shakespeare Language Panel 1 Modern