{"id":1149,"date":"2009-07-30T22:33:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T05:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2009-07-30T23:30:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T06:30:14","slug":"shakespeare-week-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/shakespeare-week-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Week II"},"content":{"rendered":"

I felt alive today, truly happy teaching my kids and their friends and helping them discover and create and keep trying, even when it’s hard. I was born to teach and love kids. Today was the second meeting of the Sonoran Shakespeare Players<\/a> and we worked on three big projects on three big tables in our house.<\/p>\n

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Station 1: Try writing with a quill pen and create an illuminated manuscript letter.<\/p>\n

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She loved it.<\/p>\n

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So did she.<\/p>\n

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This little boy will have done it all by the time he begins school. I love the “…and why not?” look on his face.<\/p>\n

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Station 2: Using an oatmeal container, popsicle sticks and tooth picks, construct a Globe Theater.<\/p>\n

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Paige and Emma re-created the balconies, stage, partial roof and entry with the Latin phrase meaning, “All the World’s a Playhouse” and drew Hercules carrying a globe on his shoulders.<\/p>\n

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Station 3: “Translate” and rewrite a speech from Hamlet from one of your favorite characters. Then draw your favorite scene.<\/p>\n

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This one took the most brain power and time. Wow, the kids did a great job, once they realized they didn’t have to understand every word, just the main ideas.<\/p>\n

For our next meeting, we’ll have our two missing Players back from vacation and we’ll be able to finish reading the play aloud. The costumes are accumulating; we’re focused and oh, so dramatic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I felt alive today, truly happy teaching my kids and their friends and helping them discover and create and keep trying, even when it’s hard. I was born to teach and love kids. Today was the second meeting of the Sonoran Shakespeare Players and we worked on three big projects on three big tables in … Continue reading Shakespeare Week II<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeschooling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}