Shakespeare's Verbs
1. Write a silent conversation with your partner. (Pass notes!!)
2. Using the verb inflection handout, translate the conversation into Shakespeare's English.
3. Speakst it aloud!
4. Turn in paper with both names to the box.
Shakespeare's Insults
1. Choose a word from each column (A,B,C) and prepare an insult to hurl.
2. Using Shakespeare's Glossary or Shakespeare's Dictionary (or whatever internet resource or dictionary hard copy, translate your insult.
3. Prepare to hurl it.
Shakespeare's Beat
1. Write down the lyrics to a verse of a song you have memorized.
2. Discuss: why do we remember songs?
3. Green Eggs and Ham: Tetrameter
4. Flocabulary: Hip-Hop Shakespeare
5. Stomp it out!! Tetrameter and Pentameter
Optional Homework: Check out a copy of the play and peruse it over the weekend.