Collèges & Lycées, greet the Bard of Avon !
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Humeurs : a warning... "Shakespeare's works contain references to adultery, incest, and premarital sex, and is replete with bawdy humor and double entendres. And don't forget the violence. Don't even get me started on the violence. Quick-name a Shakespearean tragedy where the title characters live through the fifth act. Couldn't do it, could you? Bodies pile up faster in Shakespeare's plays than they do in the Baltimore morgue. Consider yourself warned..." -from the intro to this good Bard Site for intermediate level students.

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-- Apache Poetry Choice A Day In November I wish that sound was never heard today, I want that sight to fade into the night, The mind struggles to put this fight away, But knows it cannot win, not in this fight. Could armies ever trade their guns for flowers? Could cold stones ever stop kissing the sky? The dove dropped her leaf and ran in horror, My peace is out of reach to people's eyes. When men die in battle it's in honor, But when children die- a white angel dies. I don't even care why, it doesn't matter Because death is - death is the end of life. Terror has replaced my love with sorrow. Please let there be no car bombs tomorrow.- -----------------------------Anat, Dec. 2000 -------------Gymnasia High School of Jerusalem. "As part of our study of Shakespeare, we studied several sonnets and discussed them in terms of structure, rhyme and content. Anat wrote the poem as a homework assignment to write a modern sonnet related to our own lives. She studies in the 10th Grade at the Gymnasia High School of Jerusalem. As her poem indicates, it is hard for teenagers to have love on their minds in these tense times in Israel..." Jennifer Sternlicht, Anat's EFL and English Literature Teacher, Dec. 2000. ETNI. --

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Shakespeare en Seconde

Colleague's effort Webquest avec un groupe d'élèves de 2de. > J'ai repéré 3 bons sites qui sont maintenant sur le réseau intranet du lycée. J'ai préparé et placé sur ma Page des grilles de travail à remplir sur la biographie du barde, les théâtres, le Globe Theatre, la période élisabéthaine. Les élèves complètent les grilles, rédigent un texte à partir des info trouvées, et me présentent une présentation finale sous forme d'exécutable avec images, sons, vidéo... Annie.

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- Did Shakespeare care for grammar? Will wrote: "more strong", "more strange", "more sweet", "more fitter", "more corrupter", "most poorest"... When asked the reason for these 'errors', Karl Tamburr, Professor of English somewhat archly replies that Shakespeare didn't observe the rules of grammar because he didn't have them." A website for the beginning to intermediate - a cool Shakespeare reader - not intended for scholars! All Shakespeare : searchable guides of the Bard's plays and sonnets, a biography, a time line, and more. Biographie en Français de Shakespeare par Mario PRAZ, Dictionnaire des Auteurs, Laffont-Bompiani. Never too young for Shakespeare... Surfing with the Bard - lesson plans, reviews, links... Tales From Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb - les pièces de théâtre sous forme de contes - excellente approche pour débutants, élèves... Renaissance Texts Research Center - with a virtual tour of the Globe Theater. Shakespeare films in class - Tragedy Series videos. Webspeare - 'Hey Shakespeare, what are you saying to today's high school students?' (a Shakespearean resource for high school students and teachers). Romeo and Juliet is tentatively taught at The Mae Boyar High School in 2000-2001, and teacher Jack Pillemer has created a site for this purpose. Useful to teachers and pupils as well, it includes web based animation, chat, forms, e-mail, links etc. The site is still growing. Nov. 2000: The site is slowly being filled up with ideas and material - in the Assignments section M. Pillemer has placed the texts he has chosen, glossaries and activities for teaching and learning. He recommends the Word format's layout. Page Shakespeare pour Agrégation, CAPES. Shakespeare fun !

Renaissance Texts Center - with a Globe Theater tour. Shakespeare Garden "The Bay trees in our country are all withered" (Richard II: II, iv). Shakespeare's observations of the livelihood of the flowers, his keen awareness, are a constant delight. No matter the setting, whether Egypt, Rome, Illyria, Venice...the plants in his poetry are the plants of Shakespeare's England... Legends, lore, uses, symbolism of the plants, as known to the Elizabethans, is there. Teaching materials. Student packets. Lesson Plans. Inspire creatve writing using Shakespeare . Words Shakespeare has added to English (each week). Understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare's plays. Animated... Sonnet CXVI. Full text of all sonnets. The Website of Shakespeare's Sonnets: texts of all sonnets with commentary and explanation of archaic words. Woodcuts, pictures of London in Willy's days - excellent material for teaching the Sonnets. About Shakespeare's Love Sonnets : "no single sonnet can be picked out without looking at all the sonnets together..." Les Sonnets: présentation + traduction, par Patrick Conscience. Shakespeare Classroom materials. Teaching Shakespeare. -

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SHAKESPEARE IN THE CLASSROOM Goal : teaching 'some' literature, creating discussions, providing writing topics. As You Like It - act II, scene VII, from « All the world's a stage» to «Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.». The steps, by Galia Kaspi, ETNI member. 1. I started out with a question about the stages in life we go through (My lead in to this can't be used by everyone, however: I told my class that I had {re}married over the summer! I couldn't have timed it better!) I tried to keep it to the NUMBER of stages as opposed to the ACTUAL stages. I wanted to later get into our obsession with categorization and « stage naming » but it got lost in everything else that was going on over the last two weeks... 2. I then gave them a copy of Shakespeare's "As You Like It", which I read to them (without stopping for questions - the goal was more to talk about stages and descriptive writing than to examine Shakespeare...) 3. In pairs, the class then copied out the stage "titles" and the DESCRIPTIVE words and phrases used to describe them. Only after that did we discuss the stages and their meanings. The class supplied explanations for his use of "soldier" or "justice" etc. to head his stages...

4. Second hour they had to write their own stages in life, using lots of descriptive phrases and clever adjectives. We talked about the differences in expected life spans in Shakespeare's time and our own. They did the writing in pairs, small groups or individually. These were then polished up at home and turned in the next lesson. I have sent some excerpts to the ETNI home page "Students Write". I also asked them to bring in songs they had (in English, of course) about life cycles. 5. I was given about 4 different songs but for lack of a CD player, we couldn't listen to them! We then went on the Robert Frost and compared Shakespeare's stages with Frost's method of using the seasons to categorize stages. Then we did "The Road Not Taken". 6. The 2nd hour I gave them reading comprehension, "The Circle Game" which created excellent discussion on their different interpretations. 7. The final assignment on this "unit" was to write (draft in class) on the stage of life they preferred, explaining why. Those were just turned in yesterday so I haven't had time to read them all, but it's been very enjoyable for me ! Does Shakespeare still have a role to play in today's world? Natalie D. has an opinion. Find out ! -

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