Day 58- Foundations R&J intro and Gerunds

Objectives 1. Identify Participles and Analyze sentences for their effect. 2. Analyze how figurative language can affect the interpretation of a poem. Homework: Print off Drama/Poetry terms from the wiki Close reading Poems- due Friday

Gerund- Warm up- Copy the following sentences. Label S, V, DO, IO, PN, PA and identify the gerund and Objects in the gerund phrase. 1. Try whistling a song. 2. One of the jobs of a film director is giving instructions to the actors.

Binder check will be during Research time Fiction remediation will be this Thursday- Retakes are offered on Friday

Grammar Time YES!!!!!!!!!

Summary Gerunds always end with –ing Gerunds are always nouns Gerunds can be –S–S–S–Subjects –D–D–D–Direct objects –I–I–I–Indirect objects –O–O–O–Objects of the prepositions –P–P–P–Predicate nominatives

Gerund_#1_ worksheet Complete worksheet and submit.

A plague on both your houses… What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of William Shakespeare, or Romeo and Juliet? ……old and boring…tragic love story ……hard to understand…stuck up..two feuding families…romance …Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? ….play with old costumes…who? Huh?

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Humble Beginnings: born in Stratford- upon-Avon Known as “the Bard” Attended Stratford Grammar School until he was 14 Then he married Anne Hathaway and entered the “lost years”. Wrote about 37 plays and 154 sonnets  Shakespeare’s sonnets all featured a male speaker and focused on the theme of love. Other common themes: time, death, and poetry itself.

So about this ShakespeareSo about this Shakespeare.. William Shakespeare was an unknown man from Stratford on Avon, who ended up becoming a famous playwright in London When he was 18 he married 26 year old Anne Hathaway, their daughter Susanna was born 6 th months later. They also had twins, Judith and Hamnet, but he died at age 11 He spent much of his life in London, as an actor and author, at the Globe theater, and when he died he left his wife the 2 nd best bed in his will

A way with words Shakespeare added over 2,000 words to the English language in his plays, if he needed a new word, he made one up, you may recognize…,000 words Eyeball, dwindle, watchdog, gloomy, hobnob, swagger, rant, moonbeam, fashionable There are also expressions he coined that are very common today, like “a heart of gold,” “wild goose chase,” “vanish into thin air,” “good riddance,” “break the ice,” “a laughing stock,” “clothes make the man,” “dead as a doornail”expressions He also wrote some pretty good insults

 Left his family to arrive in London and joined the theater company, Lord Chamberlain’s Men.  Earned his money by doing the following:  1.) Part owner of the Globe Theater  2.) An Actor  3.) A Playwright  Generally wrote 3 types of plays:  1.) Tragedy- Ex. Romeo & Juliet  2.) Comedy- Ex. The Taming of the Shrew  3.) Historical- Ex. Henry VIII

Elizabethan Era The Renaissance Actors were men only o Men even played female roles! Plays were one of the main source of entertainment

Elizabethan Theater…all the world’s a stageTheater In Shakespeare’s time, theaters were on the south side of London, along with bearbaiting, taverns, and some very friendly women Theaters were sometimes closed to try to stop the threat of plague, or because they were “immoral” All of the actors were men, it was illegal for women to be onstage…so Juliet was being played by a teenage boy in a dress…there’s a reason Shakespeare’s plays have lots of talking, but not too much kissing onstage

 Roofless= Open Air  No Artificial Lighting  Plays were performed in the afternoon to take advantage of the sunlight.  Plays were written/produced for the general audience  Courtyard surrounded by 3 levels of galleries  Spectators:  Wealthy- got benches  “Groundlings”- poorer people stood and watched from the ground (the pit)  All except for the wealthy were uneducated/ poor  Burned down during a production of Henry VIII in Rebuilt the following year.

You could get into the Globe theater for a penny, and stand during the whole play, or pay a bit more for a seat, most stood, and were called “groundlings” Food was sold, and if the play wasn’t good or exciting, the audience would heckle or throw things at the actors

 Differences to today’s theater productions:  No Scenery  Settings were all referenced through dialogue  Elaborate Costumes  Plenty of props  Fast-paced productions  Only MALE actors would perform

 You are to research the Globe Theatre/The Elizabethan Era/ and Shakespeare. See what you can find out about these 3 things.  PICK 1 to write a 1 page paper describing interesting things. I do not want a definition paper I want you to write on things that are interesting and new to you. You may not write a summary of Romeo and Juliet.  The paper should be choppy and include short paragraphs of 3-4 sentences.  This should have complete sentences.

 Write three things you learned about gerunds today.  Write two examples of gerunds.  Write one question you still have about Romeo and Juliet.