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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).

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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.
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Open Ended
Why do you think we still study Shakespeare today?
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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outdated and confusing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.
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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
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).

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