Hath Not A Jew?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWfsnxQHI34

Mel Gibson demonstrates why we read/play Shakespeare.

Mercy by Portia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJx0MHQ3qL4

Here is one version of the set piece we are to memorize.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaHKAWNTxxg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8qs_Nv4fgw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPG3KcYXWSg

Merchant of Venice Scene Videoes

Part of act 1 scene 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnG60TFAqcA

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Act 1 scene 1 1973
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhN7sYlMtgs

Act 1 Scene 2 & 3 1973
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLZLb-nizmI

Part 3    Act 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKm9cm_VKzo

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Audio Book   Librivox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBCPeqla5bE

Poetry or Prose Link

http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl339/verseprose.html

I realized while writing my mentor report that I could have and should have turned this info into a game. I could have used these statements as questions, and for correct answers they could have taken a turn on a game board, either tic tac toe, or a snakes a ladders type game.

In the middle of writing this email my daughter came and asked for help on her Shakespeare report and I realized it would be fun to create a game board that used Shakespearean references. For instance instead of sliding down a ladder it could be, committed fraud, punishment starvation in public. LOSE A TURN. My daughter's report is on crime and punishment.

I hope this helps.

Nancy

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s391/sh/9bbd8feb-c7e6-4e51-bb90-2887391263cc/b839f294c52c075b83f5247df366babd
Nancy G

Parent Shakespeare Movie/Book Link

For parents who want to know about movies, books, and parent reviews for Shakespeare plays.

http://shakespeareconquest.wordpress.com/60-second-recaps/60-second-recap-hamlet/

Gathering Activities

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.

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.