1. Warmup: Respond to the following prompt with 5 complete sentences:
Grab your binders, pick up warm up paper, and take your seats.
Respond to the following prompt with 5 complete sentences:
“Do you think languages change? Why/Why not? What are some things that could make it change (whether or not you think they should)?
Examples of change:
slang,
text abbreviations,
including foreign languages (déjà vu - French the sense of having experienced the present situation before)

2. History of English language Shakespearean history Application
Agenda
History of English language
Shakespearean history
Application

3. German Middle English Olde English Modern English (2nd Century BC)
(1100 AD)
200 BC AD AD AD AD Present
1 AD 500 AD AD AD AD
Olde English
(500 AD)
Modern English
(1550 AD)

4. Old English

5. Middle English

6. Early Modern English

7. What’s next?
If you haven’t noticed, our language today looks nothing like Shakespeare’s.
It seems like language “revolutions” have occurred around year intervals: 500 AD – 1100 AD – 1550 AD - ______________
What does this mean about our language?

8. A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)
The first dictionary of English wasn’t made until over 100 years after Shakespeare died. Here’s what the author said:
“Those who have been persuaded to think well of my design, require that it should fix our language, and put a stop to those alterations”
“Those who have much leisure to think, will always be enlarging the stock of ideas, and every increase of knowledge, whether real or fancied, will produce new words, or combinations of words. When [the mind] is left at large in the fields of speculation, it will shift opinions; as any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.”

9. History Modules
You will be working with the 4 people you are sitting around.
Each group will have a different historic event that occurred around Shakespeare’s time.
Read the articles and answer the questions that accompany it. Be prepared to share – I will be calling on random group members to share their research.
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot, Essex’s Rebellion, English Reformation, Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Roanoke Island, Queen Elizabeth, Lord Chamberlain’s Men, and “The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet”

10. Death, Be Not Proud: John Donne
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee 
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; 
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow 
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. 
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, 
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow, 
And soonest our best men with thee do go, 
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery. 
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, 
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, 
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well 
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then? 
One short sleep past, we wake eternally 
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die. 
Death, Be Not Proud: John Donne

11. Exit: Creative Writing (this will be a writing grade)
Pretend you are a young William Shakespeare and you’re writing newspaper articles to develop your writing skills:
Write a newspaper article about one of the historic events as if it had just happened – what is your reaction? Why is it important to culture? What impact will it have on the world?
Events:
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot,
Essex’s Rebellion,
English Reformation,
Defeat of the Spanish Armada,
Roanoke Island,
Queen Elizabeth,
Lord Chamberlain’s Men,
“The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet”