Teaching Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare and Roselyn Scavuzzo

Senior English Class Webpage: Macbeth

English  10H Class Webpage: Julius Caesar

 Illuminated Sonnet Assignment  

   
        Use hypertext to create an Illuminated Shakespeare Sonnet . Find a good link, image, video, music clip or whatever; highlight the word in the text and add the URL. Remember, this assignment should be a way to emphasize the text in the way Shakespeare plays with words. Be brilliant and clever!

 

 SONNET 29

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,

I all alone  beweep my outcast state

And  trouble  deaf heaven with my bootless  cries

And look upon myself and curse my fate,

Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,

Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd,

Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,

With what I most enjoy contented least;

Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,

Haply I think on thee, and then my state,

Like to the lark at break of day arising

From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;

For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings

That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

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Links

Shakespeare Subject to Change

Cable in the Classroom's website, "letting Shakespeare show you the brain-charging learning power of broadband technology "

To Be a Victim, not to be a Coward, and those Pesky Gravediggers

Fun Follow up or Preview to CIC's Shakespeare Subject to Change with Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) & Hugh Laurie (Dr. House).  Fantastic

Take That, Shakespeare!

Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) gives Shakespeare "what he deserves" for 400 years of girls and boys in schools and other complaints. Funny, but I would never kick Shakespeare!

Pink Tights and Plenty of Props

Rowan Atkinson gives us a clever rundown of Shakespearean acting and plot - complete with mood music and plenty of props.