Doctor, Doctor Memory Game Sit in a circle and one person says their name and names a made up disease. The next person has to say their name and the disease of prior player. It continues building with all preceding players until someone makes a mistake and that person starts the next game.
Duck, duck, Screw loose. Everyone sits in a circle and one person mimes an animal as they circle the group, in action, walking pattern, and noises. The rest of the group guesses and the first one to get it right, starts the next pattern.
Shakespeare Conquest is affiliated with Leadership for America Academy whose goal it is to enlighten youth in the power of their own mission to become the leaders of our world.
Thursday, September 4, 2014
10 Step Pass Offs
Students are encouraged to accomplish all the following to join the group in the culminating activity at the end of the year. This year it will be the last Saturday of March and we will be going to Norman to the Shakespeare Faire.
- Read and discuss the play weekly - Merchant of Venice for 2014
- Watch/Read/Listen to seven of Shakespeare's Plays
- Personal Vocabulary List (20 words)
- Participate in Shakespeare Fair
- Participate in Spring Play
- Poetic, and Strategies Vocabulary
- Iambic Pentameter: Explain/Write/Discuss
- Present - Shakespearean topic
- Recite Set-piece - Portia's Mercy Speech for 2012
- Write a Summary of the Play
Shakespeare Conquest offers students the opportunity to use the incentive system to reward and encourage themselves to excel. We hope to attend the Renaissance Fair with students who complete these ten this spring.
Writing Assignments
Shakespeare Conquest gives youth the opportunity to write on specific topics weekly. These assignments follow the Play and each Act's reading assignment. It also encompasses the discussion topics and these are in the student's binder on page 29 .
Some are:
Today's stereotypes
The morality of Usury
God's contradictions?
Romantic Love or Friendship
Mythical Characters
Evil promotes Evil?
Force wrong or right?
Justice and Mercy
This is an option students may explore on their own level at their own proficiency. While one page may suffice, we encourage the student to stretch himself in whatever capacity and strive to become better at the critical skill of written expression.
Some are:
Today's stereotypes
The morality of Usury
God's contradictions?
Romantic Love or Friendship
Mythical Characters
Evil promotes Evil?
Force wrong or right?
Justice and Mercy
This is an option students may explore on their own level at their own proficiency. While one page may suffice, we encourage the student to stretch himself in whatever capacity and strive to become better at the critical skill of written expression.
Daily Overview First Semester 2014
Daily Course Schedule
Typical Day
15 minutes: Gathering
Activity – Drama WarmUps actor training.
These
are very specific and outlined for us in the mentor manual.
15
minutes: Lecture: Intro to Shakespeare Topics like Shakespeare’s life, poetic
language, iambic pentameter, prose vs verse, couplets, imagery, soliloquies,
mythology, Asides, Quibbles and Banters.
15
minutes: Reading Discussion: Over
the previous week’s reading assignment
15 minutes: Vocabulary: Share vocab.
discussion from previous week
15 minutes: Introduce and Discuss Writing
Topic for the next week
15
minutes: Student Presentations: ie.,
Elizabethian Life, ruling class, mysticism, Food and dining customs, death,
burial and ghosts, Clothing, Weapons,
The Four Humors, Religion, superstition 26
topic suggestions are given.
Each
student can sign up for a date and make one of these.
15 minutes: Ten step
passoffs - Signing Off
We are so frantically busy getting all of this stuff in and
the excitement level and enthusiasm is so strong that there is not much time
for peripherial socialization on side topics, but the youth will build
relationships and it is that positive direction and skill building that builds confidence
and engenders leadership skills.
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