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.

1. Read and discuss the play weekly - Merchant of Venice for 2014
2. Watch/Read/Listen to seven of Shakespeare's Plays
3.  Personal Vocabulary List (20 words) 
4. Participate in Shakespeare Fair
5. Participate in Spring Play
6. Poetic, and Strategies Vocabulary
7. Iambic Pentameter:  Explain/Write/Discuss  
8. Present - Shakespearean topic
9. Recite Set-piece - Portia's Mercy Speech for 2012
10. 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.

Shakespeare Presentations Schedule

This semester our students are presenting information to the group using a variety of presentation skills, power point, internet programs, on the following dates:

Shakespeare's Life                               Sis. Darcey  09-12

A Day in the Life                                  Sis. Wilson   9-19

Death, Dying--The Black Plague          Jayson  10-31

The Four Humors,                               Aidan 11/7

Clothing                                               Jessica 10-17

Food-What is a Fork?                         Victoria 10-26

Queen Elizabeth                                    Saje   10-10

The War of the Roses                          Makella    11-28

Social Status:  A Day In The Life         Nathan  10-10

Elizabethan Architecture:                      William     10-24

Weapons                                              Mariah  11-7

Theater and Acting in the 16th Century  Madeline  11-14

Myths, Legends,                                          Chandra

Renaissance Education: Who and Why         Micah


FYI about Shakespeare Conquest Lesson Plan:  This course  offers youth the opportunity to present a topic from the 15th Century, Renaissance period.  The topic is consistent with the period and a suggestion list is offered in the Shakespeare student binder on page  .   It is also one of the TEN STEPS for achievement awards.

The following topics are also open:

Religion of the Times
God and Superstition
The King James Bible
Natural Order and Social Position
Roles of the Sexes
Mysticism and Animals
Who is Who in the Arts
Witches, fairies and things that go bump in the night
Mental illness and retardation
Body and Mind