This selection explores the world of Elizabethan England, focusing on the life and times of William Shakespeare and on the building of the Globe theater.
RL.5.5.Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
Discovery Education
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Additional Skills- Fact and Opinion A Fact is specific information that you can prove to be true. An opinion is a thought or feeling about something and cannot be proven. Opinions are statements of belief, judgement, or feeling. An author will often state an opinion first and then use facts to support that opinion.
Strategies: Classify/Categorize Classifying/categorizing is identifying words or concepts that have something in common. This will help you understand how information relates to what you already know. It can help you learn more about word structure and meaning. Words can be related by having similar meaning and having similar word parts. These are called word families, such as critic, critical, criticize, and criticism.
Vocabulary: patron - a person of wealth or influence who supports and artist or writer
shareholder - a person who owns part of a business
critical - apt to judge severely or form unfavorable opinions
lavish - extremely showy, expensive, or abundant
congested - crowded; too full
adornment - decoration; ornament; something that beautifies a person or thing
Think and Respond: 1. Why was the Globe important to William Shakespeare? 2. Why are the illustrations and captions important to this selection? 3. Why does the author tell you the Elizabethans were critical and demanding? 4. What do you think Ben Johnson meant when he said Shakespeare "was not of an age, but for all time"?
RL.5.5 Video Lesson: Understand figurative language: "Get on the bandwagon
1. Click on the link to watch the video. 2. Take notes on the note sheetprovided. You may pause, stop, and rewind the clip as much as you need. Turn in completed sheet. Answers/Notes must be in complete sentences.