1. Unlocking Shakespeare Language Day 3
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2. Today’s goals Honors only: Turn in Skit Review Syntax from Yesterday
Go over answer to 1/5 worksheet (back)
Write like Shakespeare

3. Turn in your skit from yesterday
IF you haven’t yet….
Turn in your skit from yesterday

4. Expand: Standard and Non-standard Syntax Worksheet
She it is. (Measure for Measure, )
To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin. (Romeo and Juliet, )
There will I stay for thee. (A Midsummer Night’s dream, )
Full of vexation come I, with complaint against my child, my daughter Hermia. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, ‐24)
Younger than you, Here in Verona, ladies of esteem, Are made already mothers.. (Romeo and Juliet, )
This day my sister should the cloister enter and there receive her approbation. (Measure for Measure, ‐176)

5. Expand: Standard and Non-standard Syntax Worksheet
She is it.
I hold it not a sin to strike him dead.
I will stay for thee there.
Went over in class Yesterday!

6. Expand: Standard and Non-standard Syntax WorksheetV S
Full of vexation come I, with complaint against my child, my daughter Hermia.
come I
There is no object.
Simple sentence: I come.
Phrases and clauses: Full of vexation, with complaint, against my child, my daughter Hermia
I come, full of vexation, with complaint against my child, my daughter Hermia.
I, full of vexation, come, with complaint against my child, my daughter Hermia.
With complaint against my child, my daughter Hermia, I come, full of vexation.

7. Expand: Standard and Non-standard Syntax WorksheetV O
Younger than you, here in Verona, ladies of esteem, are made already mothers.
Simple Sentence: Ladies are made mothers (already in SVO)
Younger than you, here in Verona, ladies of esteem, are made already mothers.
All of these are adjective phrases!!! (see how grammar is helpful?)
Ladies of esteem, younger than you, here in Verona already are made mothers.
Ladies, here in Verona, younger than you, of esteem are made mothers already.
Ladies younger than you, here in Verona, of esteem are already made mothers.

8. Expand: Standard and Non-standard Syntax Worksheet
V (split)
V (split) V O
This day my sister should the cloister enter and there receive her approbation.
conjunction
Warning: Compound Sentence!!!
Simple sentence: My sister should enter the cloister
Simple sentence: My sister should receiver her approbation.
Compound: My sister should enter the cloister and receive her approbation.
This day= archaic. We normally say today
My sister should enter the cloister and receiver her approbation there this day.
This day, my sister should enter the cloister and receiver her approbation there.
My sister, this day, should enter the cloister, and there receiver her approbation.
My sister should enter the cloister this day, and receive there her approbation.
NOTICE=== nothing from first simple sentence gets put into second half, except for “this day” and all the actions are referring to the same time period.

9. Part 2: Making sense of it all.
She it is.= She is it. We have no other context to help us. To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin. I don’t think it would be such a bad thing if he died. (or) If “you” killed him, I wouldn’t thing it was wrong. There will I stay for thee. I will wait for you there.

10. Part 2: Making sense of it all.
Full of vexation come I, with complaint against my child, my daughter Hermia.
I come very bothered, to complain about my child, my daughter Hermia.
I have come here, very upset over my daughter Hermia.

11. Part 2: Making sense of it all.
Younger than you, Here in Verona, ladies of esteem, Are made already mothers.
Ladies who are younger than you here in Verona are already mothers.
There are respected girls younger than
you in our town who are already mothers.

12. Part 2: Making sense of it all.
This day my sister should the cloister enter and there receive her approbation.
Coister=church/nunnery Approbation =in Catholic canon law, an act by which a bishop or other legitimate superior grants to an inspiring priest the actual exercise of his ministry.
Today, my sister is going to enter a nunnery
and be approved.
MYsister will be entering priesthood at the church
and will be granted her right to serve the people today.

13. Write like Shakespeare
Come, the time has to learn the ways of the force…
Er, em… learn the ways of the bard.

14. Practice with Syntax
The worksheet will go through step by step how to complete the practice with syntax.
Complete this worksheet first.
Ask me questions as the second sheet is more difficult
Example: She likes cheese.
Sov: She, cheese likes.
Osv: Cheese, she likes.
Ovs: Cheese likes she.
Vso: Likes, she, cheese.
Vos: Likes cheese, she.

15. Writing like Shakespeare
Once you’ve mastered nonstandard syntax in modern day English, have some fun with Shakespeare!
You will review each sentence
Then rewrite the sentence in nonstandard syntax
Then flavor it to sound more like Shakespeare
Don’t over do it…
Example: I like you.
OSV: Thee, I like.