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Homework

NEW
Look at the jobs to do further down in the Shakespeare section!
Yes - both parts - obn the theatre and the prologue!

Old homework

Analyse this CARTOON!
If you have forgotten how to do it see here.

Basic Skills & Information

• Information on homework and oral grades
• Reading and Marking technique - SQ3R Method A useful method to read, mark and annotate texts.
• Working with Cartoons

• A good speech/speaker ...
• Working with statistics ...
• Writing an interview
• Answering questions on the text
• Starting a paragraph
• Starting an Essay/Comment
• Shaping/refuting an Argument/Comment
• Mediation
• Translation (E→G)
• Characterization
• Review

Key moments and concepts in US history

Founding documents

Slavery

Pioneers and the idea of the "Fronier

Women's suffrage

Martin Luther King

• *15.01.1929
• 1935 school for blacks
• 18.06.1953 marriage with Coretta Scott
• 1955 Montgomery-Busboykott (link to Rosa Parks)
• 1963 "I have a Dream"
• 1964 Nobel Prize for Peace
• † 04.1968 murdered by shot in neck

Why Obama picked him in "Yes we can"

• Stood for equal rights
• Courage
• Has not given up dispite the many attacks
• Never used force in all demonstrations and actions
• Changed something in whole America
• One of the reason that Obama could even candidate for being president

Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement

JFK and flying to the moon

• John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States (1961-1963)
• the youngest man elected to the office and the first catholic who had this job
• On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, JFK was killed in Dallas, Texas, becoming also the youngest President to die

• Kennedy was a skilled politician, an able orator and indefatigable campaigner. Mr. Obama is viewed much the same way
• Each took office after eight years of a Republican president of whom the nation had grown tired

Link to Obama´s speech:

• nobody thought a young catholic could win the election
• nobody thought a young black could win the election
• JFK stood also for a progressive and liberal policy

Flying to the moon as a central topic of comparison:

• The moon landing demonstrates the greatness of the USA over the USSR
• „We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.“
• Compares well to the speech of Obama because both had challenges of similar magnitude

Immigration

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare's Theatre and Plays

• Watch this film about Elisabethan plays and playhouses several times!
• Take notes that will help you to answer all the Wh-questions one can answer about plays, theatres, actors and theatre productions!

(For literary terms etc. see pages 259 (S6) and pages 302 - 305 in your book.

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The Prologue

Prologue to the most lamentable story of Romeo and Juliet

Two households both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
Whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love
And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;
The which, if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

1. What is the function of this prologue at the beginning of the play? What should it do - considering the opportunities and devices a play at Shekespeare's time is limited to!
2. What can you say about the language and structure of these lines? (Look at rhyme, rythm, metre and choice of words!)
3. Learn lines 1 - 8 by heart + practice reciting them .....!