My Shakespeare

My Shakespeare

LAFS.910.RI.2.4- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g, how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).

Objective

Students will be able to understand idioms used in the poem "My Shakespeare" by Kate Tempest and also understand why Shakespeare is relevant today. 

Open Ended

Why do you think we still study Shakespeare today?

Multiple Choice

Tempest uses the pronoun his and the contraction he's throughout the poem. To whom is she referring?

• God

• Shakespeare

• her father

• a great king

Multiple Choice

What emotion is described in lines 5–6, “Every eye that stops to linger / On what someone else has got, and feels the tightening in their chest”?

• envy

• love

• hate

• sorrow

Multiple Choice

An allusion is a reference to something you should be familiar with or may have seen/heard before. In the second and third stanzas, lines 7–17, Tempest names different people that “He's in,” from “every young man growing boastful” to “every vain admirer” to “Every pawn.” She is alluding to

• people who admire Shakespeare

• role models Tempest admires

• characters in Shakespeare's friends and relatives.

• characters in Shakespeare's plays.

Multiple Choice

In lines 29–30, “his letters with their arms around each others shoulders, swagger / towards the ends of their sentences” is an example of

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

• onomatopeia

Multiple Choice

The central idea of “My Shakespeare” is that Shakespeare's work is

• outdated and confusing

• relevant and inspiring today

• interesting, but difficult

• familiar to everyone.

Reread My Shakespeare by Kate Tempest and

• highlight/underline all the idioms you can find (there are 20)

• look up what they mean

• write an example for each

• turn in your papers