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ENGLISH 7 NOTES

ALWAYS PUT YOUR HOMEWORK INTO YOUR NOTEBOOK OR FOLDER!!! DO NOT USE YOUR BOOK AS A NOTEBOOK!

PLEASE CHECK HOMEWORK LINK FOR ALL LESSON PLANS AND HOMEWORK!!!

PARTS of SPEECH

 

 

Noun: person, place, thing or idea

 

Verb: action word or shows state of being

 

Pronoun: takes the place of a noun

 

Adjective: describes a noun

 

Adverb: describes a verb, adjective or other adverb

 

Conjunction: connects words, phrases or clauses; and, but, or

 

Interjection: shows excitement or emotion; set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point or comma if the feeling is not as strong

 

Preposition: connects a noun to another word; in, on, like, of, to

 

Subject of a sentence: the topic of your sentence that includes a noun

 

Predicate of a sentence: what the subject does

Notes

born April 23, 1564

died April 23, 1616

English Renaissance= Elizabethan Era

Shakespeare was born in Stratford-on-Avon

His wife was Anne Hathaway. She was 26, he was 18 when they married.

They had three children: Suzanna, Judith and Hamnet.

Lord Chamberlain's Men(theatre company)

changed to The King's Men

Globe Theatre

"the O"

open air

daytime performances

"groundlings" stood on the ground in front of the stage

3 levels of stage for balcony scenes/under stage

2,500-3,000 people

2 HR plays

threw food at the actors if they didn't like it

All actors were men.

"box office" where patrons of the theatre dropped their admission fee

Three different colored flags were posted to tell what play was being performed:

Comedy- White

Tragedy- Black

History- Red

The theatre did not rely on many props, scenery or eleaborate costumes.

WORDS were used to tell. Did not rely on visual aids.

"It was a dark and stormy night." told the audience it was dark and stormy,

not special effects etc when a play was performed during the afternoon hours.

BLANK   VERSE   IS   UNRHYMED   IAMBIC   PENTAMETER!!

REAL   LIFE   VS   STAGE   LIFE

"if you don't hear it in the play, it doesn't exist!"

Characters are known by:

-what they say

-what others say about them

-what they do

-nothing from the outside was relevant, everything was within the play


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