Follow -up Sept 11th, Week 1

Follow-up on September 11th (week 1)

It's great to meet all of your awesome scholars.— here’s a look at what’s going on this week.


Required

Reading: Hamlet, Act I Scene 1-2
Please come prepared to discuss this scene next class.

This section has activities that help you towards your 10-steps and Road to Royalty. Remember the class trip is the reward for your efforts. In our Shakespeare Conquest project, the only requirement is that you do the weekly assigned reading and come discuss it in the Colloquium.  Everything else is encouraged yet optional.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it!

• Express yourself: What does “frailty, they name is woman” mean? Are women more frail than men? Explain (next week’s writing topic. Due week 3)  We’d love for you to share your ideas with us next week as we discuss it as a class)
  
  

• Examine presentation topics: Next week we’ll start taking sign-ups for an Elizabethan era topic.  Each scholar has an opportunity to present on one of the topics from page 6 of the Shakespeare Conquest binder, second section.  Pick a few that might interest you, in case someone signs up for a topic before you do.

• Bonus Questions: What does “mote in the eye” mean?  (Google may be your friend.) First year scholars this is optional and you may be entitled to drop some papers if you choose to do them. Second year scholars I would challenge you to complete them all.

• Road to Royalty: Everyone is a peasant!  Watch, read, or listen to as many plays as you like this week, so you can be promoted up the ranks. I will have the poster to start checking off your plays next week. Please keep track on your own. Mark the list of plays in your binder. (L) for listen, ® for read and (W) for watch.

What happened this week?  (And what will we be doing this year?)

We started the year off by getting to know each other with a little game. I feel I know them a little better now and they should all know each others names and feel welcomed. This game also helped jump start their memories, which is a key component in the scholar phase as their is lots to memorize.

Then, we worked together as a group to build a safe and comfortable environment.  We want to be able to explore and be playful together this year, without fear.  We came up with a list of agreements we would like to honor together. We made our class rules.

Our next game was to help build team work. We joined together in “The Human Knot”. The students did fantastic work untangling the knot that they created.

Finally, a brief lecture on the life of William Shakespeare.   The week’s lecture looked at why Shakespeare is so timeless, what he has offered to the world, and why he remains culturally significant today. 

Have a great week!  We look forward to seeing you again Thursday afternoon!