5H Lit - Renaissance & Shakespeare

Intro: poetry and literature
  • Introduction to poetry 
  • Renaissance
  •  Romantic era
  • Victorian age
  • Modernism 
  • Contemporary poetry
  • Slam poetry
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Intro: poetry and literature
  • Introduction to poetry 
  • Renaissance
  •  Romantic era
  • Victorian age
  • Modernism 
  • Contemporary poetry
  • Slam poetry

Slide 1 - Slide

What do you think about when you hear the term poetry

Slide 2 - Mind map

Introduction to Poetry -Billy Collins

Slide 3 - Slide

Introduction to Poetry
BY BILLY COLLINS

I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem’s room
and feel the walls for a light switch.




I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author’s name on the shore.

But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.


Slide 4 - Slide

Which literary devices can you find in this poem?

Slide 5 - Mind map

Slide 6 - Slide

LITERATURE

The Renaissance &

William Shakespeare

Slide 7 - Slide

Today's lesson


  • The Renaissance

History / Important people / Characteristics


  • William Shakespeare

Life / Works

Slide 8 - Slide

King Henry VIII
  • Ruled from 1509 - 1547
  • Founder of the Church of England > 1534
  • Had 6 wives!

Slide 9 - Slide


Slide 10 - Slide

Slide 11 - Video

Slide 12 - Video

Tudor England > Religious Struggle
  • 1534 Establishment of The Church of England
  • The Reformation: Catholics vs Protestants
  • Martyrs

Slide 13 - Slide

Queen Elizabeth I
  • Ruled from 1558 - 1603
  • The Virgin Queen
  • Civil War (1642-1651)
  • Oliver Cromwell
  • The Restoration (1660)

Slide 14 - Slide

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Slide 15 - Video

Slide 16 - Video

01:07
King 
Edward VI
Queen Mary 1

Queen Elizabeth 1

protestant
Catholic
mother = Catherine of Aragon
mother = Anne Boleyn
mother = Jane Seymour

Slide 17 - Drag question

01:07
Answers:
King Edward VI:
  • mother = Jane Seymour
  • protestant

Queen Mary I:
  • mother = Catherine of Aragon
  • Catholic

Queen Elizabeth I:  
  • mother = Anne Boleyn
  • protestant

Slide 18 - Slide

02:43
Which is NOT true?
A
Mary was Elizabeth's aunt.
B
Mary was the nearest heir.
C
Elizabeth had Mary executed for treason .
D
Mary was Queen of Scotland.

Slide 19 - Quiz

03:12
Why was the defeat of the Spanish Armada good news for Elizabeth?

Slide 20 - Open question

Renaissance

Slide 21 - Mind map

The Renaissance
  • Cultural and intellectual movement
  • Art (painting / music / literature)
  • Thought (philosophy / religion)
  • Renewed interest in the classics
  • 14th century Italy >> end of 15th century in England

Slide 22 - Slide

Middle Ages vs The Renaissance
  • What changed?
  • collective vs individual
  • theocentric vs humanistic
  • dogmatic belief vs critical investigation
  • MEMENTO MORI vs CARPE DIEM

Slide 23 - Slide

Literature
  • 1476
  • The printing press
  • William Caxton
  • Lyrical poetry vs Narrative poetry
  • Sonnets
  • The Golden Age of English Literature 1580 - 1630

Slide 24 - Slide

Slide 25 - Slide

William Shakespeare
  • 1564-1616 (Stratford-on-Avon)
  • actor / writer / businessman
  • 154 sonnets
  • 37 plays

Slide 26 - Slide

Shakespeare's plays
  • Three types: comedy - tragedy - history play
  • Famous comedies: As You Like It / A Midsummernight's Dream / Much Ado About Nothing
  • Famous tragedies: Romeo and Juliet / Hamlet / Macbeth / Othello / King Lear
  • Famous history plays: Richard III / Henry V

Slide 27 - Slide

Slide 28 - Slide

Shakespeare: Master of Language and Literature
  • used a variety of sources: classical, historical, contemporary 
  • turned existing subject-matter into something new and unique 
  • showed deep understanding of human nature 

  • was a master of language: invented 1,700 common words 
  • produced some of the most famous quotations in English
  • “To be or not to be, that’s the question”

Slide 29 - Slide

Slide 30 - Video

Slide 31 - Slide


Who is this?
A
Queen Elizabeth I
B
Gloriana
C
The Virgin Queen
D
Queen Mary I

Slide 32 - Quiz

When was the Church of England established?
A
1485
B
1534
C
1558
D
1603

Slide 33 - Quiz

Which motto fits the Renaissance best?
A
Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus
B
Memento mori
C
Honora patrem tuum et matrem tuam
D
Carpe diem

Slide 34 - Quiz

How many plays did Shakespeare write?
A
36
B
37
C
38
D
39

Slide 35 - Quiz

What always happens in a Shakespeare tragedy?

Slide 36 - Open question