HOMEWORK for 2-a, 3-a, and 4-a Assigned on 4/16. Due on 4/18

On April 16th, we organized and reviewed the first seven assignments in our RWNB. Entry #7 is your homework.

Step I: Review the reading strategies identified and explained on page 988 in your text. Take notes on each of the following strategies:

Strategies for Reading Drama
Strategies for Reading Shakespearean Tragedy
Strategies for Understanding Shakespeare's Language

Write #7 in the upper right-hand corner of the notes and put these in your RWNB.

Step II: Use some of the strategies suggested in your notes to decode the Prologue that begins and ends on page 992 in your text.

Try to do a line-by-line translation. You will write 15 lines because that is how long the prologue is. Translate the Elizabethan English to your kind of English. You will need a dictionary to help you understand words you may not know. You will need to use context clues and rely on the sidebars that appear on the right side of your text to explain what is going on. Do not use online resources. This is challenging, but if you do it yourself, you will learn what works best for you, and you will discover that you really CAN UNDERSTAND SHAKESPEARE! You will have a chance to share YOUR reading strategies with the class next week. Relax. This may be your first time reading the bard. Everyone starts somewhere, and your time has come.