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 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.

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

5. 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

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 brings a glooming this it 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 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?

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.
Shakespeare
Language
Panel 1
Modern