After you had a chance to catch up on your SSR, we moved on to talking about the information you gathered about William Shakespeare. Though we have our (almost) completed KWL bulletin board to prove that we learned a bunch of stuff about our favorite bard, I wanted us to talk about the most impressive facts we found. Some of you mentioned:
That he invented lots of words that hadn't been used before he used them
That he wrote 37 plays
That he had three children, including twins
That his son Hamnet died young
That he married an older woman
That he never attended college
That he was an actor
That men played women's roles in plays during this time period
That Queen Elizabeth I and James I were the rulers of England during his life
That he wrote sonnets
And much more! So, since you all have a baseline knowledge about Shakespeare's life, we moved on to taking notes about King James and his life. The bell rang, though, before we could get very far. We'll continue with this activity and start reading the play next class.
