Bellringer: Let’s Review
Invert each lines from Shakespeare’s plays into the common
S-V-O pattern (on slides 1 & 2). Be ready to share out.
Lines from Hamlet
Queen Gertrude:
“ Hamlet, thou hast thy father
much offended.”
Hamlet:
“Mother, you have my father
much offended.”
Inverted to S-V-O pattern.
Bellringer: Let’s Review
Lines from Antony & Cleopatra
Inverted to S-V-O pattern.
Antony:
I must from this enchanting
queen break off;/
Ten thousand harms, more than
the ills I know,/
My idleness doth hatch.
Now paraphrase it!
This week’s activity…
Changing words
Though suffixes don’t alter a words meaning, they
do have an important job.
Suffixes change how a word functions in a sentence.
Process
Step 1
Choose a step 3 word
Step 2
Change the words
suffixes to create new
forms of the word
Step 3
Construct a sentence
with at least 3 variations
of the word. The
sentence context
should remain the same,
focus on moving the
word
repeat
Do this 3 times.
Outcome:
I can comprehend complicated texts by
paraphrasing and analyzing syntax.
I can analyze how: dialogue or incidents in a
play propel action, reveal aspects of character,
or provoke a decision.
Who’s Who?
• How did Shakespeare
intend for his works to be
experienced?
Comprehension Strategies: Paraphrase
I can comprehend complicated texts by paraphrasing and
analyzing syntax.
Shakespearan Text
What say you, Hermia? Be
advised, fair maid.
To you, your father should
be as a god,/
One that composed your
beauties, yea, and one/
To whom you are but as a
form in wax/
By him imprinted, and
within his power/
Demetrius is a worthy
gentleman.
My Paraphrase
Comprehension Strategies: Paraphrase
I can comprehend complicated texts by paraphrasing and
analyzing syntax.
Shakespearan Text
A soliloquy from
Act I, scene I
Stand forth, Lysander: and
my gracious duke,/
This man hath bewitch’d
the bosom of my child;/
Thou hast given her
rhymes,/
And interchanged love
tokens with my child./
My Paraphrase
Independent:
Priority: Work with a peer to
finish paraphrasing Egeus’
soliloquy.
Turn in Step 3 vocabulary.
Finish AECR response
*Due at end of class;
however, if you are done now
and want to engage in a peer
edit, you may submit Monday,
but you must submit your 1st
draft and your revisions.
Read an independent novel
Closure
Let’s share our
paraphrase of
Egeus’ complaint
to Theseus in
lines 27-36.
How well
did you do?
Fist Assessment:
3: I’m getting a hang of these two strategies to aid
my comprehension of the text.
2: With a little more practice I’ll almost have it!
1: I’m wondering what in the world we are doing.