Shakespeare Shows Off His Own Work!

Shakespeare was especially excited to visit Mrs. Oros's literature class! They were learning about the format of his sonnets.  Students were working in groups to identify the rhyme scheme in Shakespeare's Sonnet #18 and analyze its meaning.  Not all of the lines in the poem were in the correct order, so they had to reorder the lines using what they learned about rhyme scheme.

The students were excited to have Shakespeare visit during their class!

Stay tuned for more of Shakespeare's adventures...

Shakespeare Learns about The Giver

When Shakespeare first arrived in London in the late 1580s, he encountered a society that was drastically different than ours is today. We, like Shakespeare, are the product of our time and our culture. While Shakespeare tackled issues like, love, betrayal and murder, 8th Grade AT Literature students explored some of the challenges societies inevitably face. 

After reading Lois Lowry’s The Giver, students were tasked with answering some tough philosophical questions, while also forming connections to the novel and real-world events. Research topics ranged from population control to utopic societies, genetic engineering and language manipulation.

As children to whom the future is entrusted, these 8th graders came to understand some of the difficulties involved in everyday culture.

Ms. Mangan and Shakespeare presiding over the presentations