This lesson contains 12 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.
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Lesson 3: love
Slide 1 - Slide
Goals
- Theme of Love: romantic? sweet? cruel?
- Iambic pentameter
- Rhyme and rhythm colour the text
Slide 2 - Slide
You've all read the article
What was the article about?
Why was there a war?
Why was the love between Bosko and Admira special?
Theme: Is it possible for everyone to love whoever they like without consequences?
Slide 3 - Slide
Have you ever had a boyfriend/girlfriend that your parents did not approve of? Would your parents be okay with everyone?
Slide 4 - Mind map
Shakespeare!
With your group, make a storyboard of the most important moments in the play Romeo and Juliet
Make a list of the main characters, give a short description
It is okay to look things up, but use your own words!
Slide 5 - Slide
Sonnets and soliloquies: emotion and rhythm
Shakespeare uses a poetry trick to bring emotion to speeches
The same trick is used in his sonnets: the verse is in iambic pentameter which is like a heartbeat DAdumDAdum
we will discover what iambic pentameter is using Sonnets see how it works when it is hidden in a play
Slide 6 - Slide
Read sonnet 18
is there a rhythm?
is there a rhyme?
how many lines to we have?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Slide 7 - Slide
DaDUMdaDUmdaDUM
Rhythm:
one short (unstressed) syllable + one long (stressed) syllable.
10 syllables per line, with 5 “beats”
Lines:
14 lines: 3 quatrains + 1 couplet
Rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg.
Look at the stressed syllables: most important words!
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Slide 8 - Slide
Video
Listen to Sonnet 18
Can you hear the beats? It is super subtle!
This, by the way, is how you mark stress in a text ---->
Slide 9 - Slide
Slide 10 - Video
Back to R+J
when characters speak, they speak in iambic pentameter
when they are calm, the rhythm stays. When they have emotions, it breaks! This leaves the actor breathless (when too few words are on a line) or stumbling over their words (when there are too many words on a line).
Look at scene 3.3 in your handout.
What is going on?
Count and mark the rhythm
when the rhythm breaks, what is the character talking about?
Slide 11 - Slide
What did you learn? Anything that struck you as remarkable/interesting/new?