Entry #7
Shakespeare is the most quoted poet and has influenced many words in the English dictionary. His quotations have passed down onto everyday language. Shakespeare has influenced over 1,700 words in the English oxford dictionary.
These are some words that Shakespeare has invented:
Jaded: dulled or worn out.
From King Henry VI
Hobnob: to associate on friendly terms
From Twelfth Night
Cold-blooded: without emotion or feeling
King John
Zany: one who plays a clown or fool
From Love’s Labour Lost
Swagger:
From A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Courtship: the wooing of one person or another
From Love’s Labour Lost
Countless: to numerous to count
From Titus Andronicus
Torture: the act of excruciating pain
From King Henry VI
Unreal: not real or actual
From Macbeth
Worthless: without worth or useless
From King Henry VI
All of these words are still used in the English language today. Pretty good for a man that was alive over a hundred years ago.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Entry #6
Entry #6
I visited the sites that had the virtual tours on them. I saw an animation of the old theatre and all of the people that visited the plays. The people were divided into sections and the rich got better seats than the peasants. The poorer people did not was and people could not bare the stench of the other person. In the older theatre it looked like a bad place and personally I don't think that I would have liked to go there. I also visited a virtual tour of the theatre where you could see the modern look of the theatre. Now the modern theatre looks like a great place to go and watch one of Shakespeare’s great plays. The architectural appeal of the building is amazing and all of the stone carvings around the stage are really quite amazing. I think that I would really enjoy going to London’s Globe Theatre. I would like to sit in the galleries were there are seats and a better view of the stage. In the galleries you can also purchase food and have a better viewing experience. Many of the people sitting around you would also be of higher class and it might be more enjoyable than standing in the pit. In the theatre in pat times people would smell horrific and it would be probably be very distracting to watch the play. Sitting in the gallery would be far more enjoyable. An interesting fact that Mr. Keenan told us that was at the door the people would give you a lemon to hold in front of your nose so that your wouldn’t have to smell the horrible stench. On one of the websites it said that the person sitting beside you might have not have had a shower for over a year.
I visited the sites that had the virtual tours on them. I saw an animation of the old theatre and all of the people that visited the plays. The people were divided into sections and the rich got better seats than the peasants. The poorer people did not was and people could not bare the stench of the other person. In the older theatre it looked like a bad place and personally I don't think that I would have liked to go there. I also visited a virtual tour of the theatre where you could see the modern look of the theatre. Now the modern theatre looks like a great place to go and watch one of Shakespeare’s great plays. The architectural appeal of the building is amazing and all of the stone carvings around the stage are really quite amazing. I think that I would really enjoy going to London’s Globe Theatre. I would like to sit in the galleries were there are seats and a better view of the stage. In the galleries you can also purchase food and have a better viewing experience. Many of the people sitting around you would also be of higher class and it might be more enjoyable than standing in the pit. In the theatre in pat times people would smell horrific and it would be probably be very distracting to watch the play. Sitting in the gallery would be far more enjoyable. An interesting fact that Mr. Keenan told us that was at the door the people would give you a lemon to hold in front of your nose so that your wouldn’t have to smell the horrible stench. On one of the websites it said that the person sitting beside you might have not have had a shower for over a year.
Entry #5
Entry #5
After finishing the Novel October Sky I think that the activities scheduled for this unit were very fun and intriguing and also very thought out. I liked that it was an independent novel study and that we didn’t have to read it out loud with the class. I would far much like reading it on my own time and by myself than having to read it in groups. We had to do an independent Character sketch, which I finished very fast and was able to understand it completely. It helped me understand the characters more in depth and it also really helped me write the final essay with more ease. I think the character sketch was very effective. We also had to do the blog journal entry assignments for October Sky. I have never had to a blog in a school assignment before and I really learned a lot about creating and commenting on blogs. In doing the blog assignments Mr. Keenan told us that we had to work on the entries at home and do it at our own pace. The entries took about half an hour for me and they weren’t very time consuming. I did six blog entries in one weekend and I didn’t have to worry about them all week. Which worked well for me because I didn’t have time in the week to write them. For the final assignment we had to make a science fair project about the book October Sky. We were put into groups and we had to pick a major theme to do the website around. I really liked my group and we worked well together. We had to some out of the classroom work but not too much. I have never had to do a science fair project on a website before. I think that it was a very creative way to do a project and no other teacher has done this before with me. Although we did have some troubles with the mac books all of it worked well and the final product turned out amazing. I also made a short animation to go in the project. I combined my computer animation skills with the theme of the project and made some pretty neat short movies. Mr. Keenan has done a great job incorporating technology into the English Curriculum and I have really enjoyed all of the creative assignments.
After finishing the Novel October Sky I think that the activities scheduled for this unit were very fun and intriguing and also very thought out. I liked that it was an independent novel study and that we didn’t have to read it out loud with the class. I would far much like reading it on my own time and by myself than having to read it in groups. We had to do an independent Character sketch, which I finished very fast and was able to understand it completely. It helped me understand the characters more in depth and it also really helped me write the final essay with more ease. I think the character sketch was very effective. We also had to do the blog journal entry assignments for October Sky. I have never had to a blog in a school assignment before and I really learned a lot about creating and commenting on blogs. In doing the blog assignments Mr. Keenan told us that we had to work on the entries at home and do it at our own pace. The entries took about half an hour for me and they weren’t very time consuming. I did six blog entries in one weekend and I didn’t have to worry about them all week. Which worked well for me because I didn’t have time in the week to write them. For the final assignment we had to make a science fair project about the book October Sky. We were put into groups and we had to pick a major theme to do the website around. I really liked my group and we worked well together. We had to some out of the classroom work but not too much. I have never had to do a science fair project on a website before. I think that it was a very creative way to do a project and no other teacher has done this before with me. Although we did have some troubles with the mac books all of it worked well and the final product turned out amazing. I also made a short animation to go in the project. I combined my computer animation skills with the theme of the project and made some pretty neat short movies. Mr. Keenan has done a great job incorporating technology into the English Curriculum and I have really enjoyed all of the creative assignments.
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