If you were absent today, visit the Learning Commons to sign our a copy of the play and make notes or get notes on all of the following terms/ideas:
Review:
blank verse
iambic pentameter
quatrain
couplet
irrational
rational
How to cite quotations from a play.
Shakespearean sonnet elements
Purpose of each act
juxtaposition of love and hatred in the play
We'll be writing essays on love/hatred comparisons.
Why / how / when does he juxtapose love and hatred throughout the play?
I read aloud an article about the similarities in the brain's circuitry regarding love and hate. Fascinating. Why do we read Shakespeare? He knew about the brain's circuitry 400 years before this scientific discovery was made.
Similarities between love and hate
Reading Shakespeare:
Reading Shakespeare has a dramatic effect on the brain
This is your brain on Shakespeare:
How To Think Like Shakespeare
