Objectives: 16 February

Today in class, we:

1. learned about the context of the Elizabethan Golden Age.
2. learned a few facts about Shakespeare's life.
3. learned about meter (iambic pentameter!).
4. learned why Elizabethans (those living in the Golden Age of Queen Elizabeth I) would have cared about Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. Can you remember some of those reasons?

I will offer four prizes to the four students who can tell me about those four objectives tomorrow!

Thought for the day:
Some of you were surprised to learn that Shakespeare created (or at least put into wide use) many of the words and phrases we use today. Read this article from National Geographic to learn more about Shakespeare's words.