Moon’s Day, September 10, 2012: Bardology 101 EQ: What do we “know” “about” “Shakespeare” – and does it “matter”? Welcome! Gather Pencils, Paper, Wits! Opening Freewrite: Known Unknowns William Shakespeare: The “Jeopardy” Lecture CLOZE / Quiz Closing Freewrite: Psalm 46 Ending Activities o Project Journals o Fierce Debate ELABLRL3: Student relates literature to historical and modern contexts ELABLRL4: Student writes in various genres: essays, narratives, poems ELABLRL5: Student acquires new vocabulary; uses correctly reading/writing ELABLRC4: Student establishes context for information acquired by reading ELA12W2: Student shows competence in many writing genres ELA12W4: Student uses timed and process writing to develop, revise, evaluate ELA12LSV1: Student has student-teacher, student-student, group discussions ELA12LSV2: Student judges various media products; gives presentations
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Moon’s Day, September 10, 2012: Bardology 101
EQ: What do we “know” “about” “Shakespeare” – and does it “matter”?
Welcome! Gather
Pencils, Paper, Wits!
Opening Freewrite:
Known Unknowns
William Shakespeare:
The “Jeopardy” Lecture
CLOZE / Quiz
Closing Freewrite:
Psalm 46
Ending Activities o Project Journals
o Fierce Debate
ELABLRL3: Student relates literature to historical and modern contexts
ELABLRL4: Student writes in various genres: essays, narratives, poems
ELABLRL5: Student acquires new vocabulary; uses correctly reading/writing
ELABLRC4: Student establishes context for information acquired by reading
ELA12W2: Student shows competence in many writing genres
ELA12W4: Student uses timed and process writing to develop, revise, evaluate
ELA12LSV1: Student has student-teacher, student-student, group discussions
ELA12LSV2: Student judges various media products; gives presentations
Opening Freewrite (100 words)
On February 12, 2002, as the United States prepared
for war against Iraq, a reporter asked Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld to prove that Iraq did in
fact have the weapons of mass destruction which
were the U.S. argument for war. He responded:
There are known knowns;
these are things we know we know.
There also are known unknowns;
these are things we know we do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns –
the things we don’t know we don’t know.
Freewrite (100 words): What did he mean?
Shakespeare, aka The Bard: What You Need To “Know”
if you are ever on “Jeopardy!” [and why the word “know” is in quotation marks]
The “Chandos” portrait – one of two pictures believed to be
authentic, contemporary portraits of William Shakespeare.
Church records show that a boy named Will Shakspere was
born in the tiny farming town of Stratford-on-Avon on April
23, 1564. Stratford-on-Avon was a tiny farming town over a
100 miles northwest of London. Nobody else famous ever
came from Stratford-on-Avon.
Will’s father was John Shakspere, a successful grain merchant
rich enough to own the second-biggest house in town:
The “Shakespeare Birth Home” in modern day Stratford-on-Avon
Will Shakspere received a 5th Grade education in Stratford’s little
one-room schoolhouse. Here is the schoolhouse today:
Here Will learned what one critic has called “little Latin and less
Greek” (just as Chaucer’s Prioresse was ridiculed for speaking
French “after the scole of Stratford-atte-Bowe”). Despite this,
William Shakespeare (note the spelling change – we’ll come back
to that) went on to be universally famous as the greatest writer the
world has ever seen. Hmmmmm…..
In 2007 Cathy Charsley of the London Metropolitan Police Force took the famous
“Chandros” portrait and used criminal forensic computer imaging techniques to create this
image of William Shakespeare as he might have looked at age twelve. (www.metro.co.uk)
At age 17 Will married
26-year-old Anne
Hathaway. A son,
Hamnet, was born six
months after wedding
(hmmmm…)
Their daughter Judith
was born two years
later; both kids died
young (hmmmmm…)
Records show that
Will Shakspere was a
successful grain merchant who went frequently to London, where
he invested widely, including several ventures with an acting
troupe called the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, and also in the Globe
Theater, where the Lord Chamberlain’s Men performed.
But these are strictly business records.
Below is everything published during the lifetime of William
Shakespeare of Stratord-On-Avon which identifies him as a poet: