CP Freshman Name: _____________________

William Shakespeare Scavenger Hunt  

Directions:  As an introduction to our unit on Romeo and Juliet, complete this Scavenger Hunt to learn more about the author, William Shakespeare, his writings, and the era in which he lived. As you visit each site, skim the material or read through it closely, as necessary! Hint: When writing down the answers, highlight the information on your screen so you eyes can easily pick it out.  To start:  Once you are online, visit our class wiki and find the link to this assignment:  

Visit: http://iversonfreshman.wikispaces.com Find and Click: Intro to Shakespeare in the navigation bar Once on the new page, Find and Click: Shakespeare Scavenger Hunt

   Biographical Background  –    Go to: http://www.bardweb.net/man.html

1. What are 2 primary sources for information on Shakespeare? a. _________________________________________________________ b. _________________________________________________________

2. Where and when was Shakespeare born?

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3. Who was Shakespeare married to, and how old were they when they married? __________________________________________________________________

4. What were the names of their children? Which child died, and how old was he/she?

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5. Scroll down to The Globe link and click on it. Shakespeare helped establish the Globe Theater. In what city was it located? ____________________________ What happened to the Globe Theater in 1613 and how did it happen? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. Hit the back arrow and return to the biography section. When did Shakespeare

allegedly die? __________________________________________________________________

7. What is Shakespeare’s legacy and for how long has it endured?

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 Life in Elizabethan England  –    Got to: http://elizabethan.or/compendium/home.html

8. Click on Services and Occupations and answer the following: a. Who made and sold arrows? _______________________________________ b. What would you get from an apothecary? _____________________________ c. Who would you go to if you needed dental work? _______________________ d. In your own household, your Nurse would do what? ____________________

9. Hit the back arrow, and click on Masters and Servants:

a. A female servant was a maid. What was the generic term for the male equivalent? _______________________________________________________________

b. In Romeo and Juliet, Benvolio refers to Romeo’s male servant as: “________________________________”

10. Hit the back arrow, and click on The City of London. Read the 3 paragraphs

describing London. Pick out four of your favorite grotesque details and write them here (include one from each paragraph): a. _______________________________________________________________ b. _______________________________________________________________ c. _______________________________________________________________ d. _______________________________________________________________

 “A plague o’ both your houses!”  (3.1.96).      Go  to:  http://www.william-­‐shakespeare.info    

11. Click on William Shakespeare Plays. Shakespeare’s plays fall into one of three categories. Scroll down to find those categories. Write the name of each category, the number of plays for each category, as well as the title of one play from each category.

 

Theme

# of Plays

Name 1 Play from this Category

 12. Under which category is Romeo and Juliet listed? ____________________________

13. Scroll back to the top of the page and click on Shakespeare Quotes. Then,

scroll down and click on William Shakespeare Famous Quotes from Romeo and Juliet. Find and read through the 10 Famous Quotes from the play and copy your favorite here. Use correct spelling and punctuation and include the act and scene from which the play is taken.

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14. Hit the back arrow, and click on Shakespeare Sonnets at the top of the page. How many sonnets did Shakespeare write? _______________________________

15. Scroll down to Sonnet 18. Read it and fill in the blanks (spelling and punctuation

may look strange, but copy it exactly): Shall I compare thee to a summer’s ______________________________? Thou art more lovely and more _________________________________: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of _________________________, And summer’s lease hath all too short a ___________________________; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven ______________________________, And often is his gold complexion ________________________________; And every fair from fair sometime _______________________________, By chance or nature’s changing course ____________________________; But thy eternal summer shall not _________________________________ Nor lose possession of that fair thou ______________________________; Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his ________________________, When in eternal lines to time thou _______________________________: So long as men can breathe or eyes can ___________________________, So long lives this and this gives life to _____________________________.

16. How many lines are in a sonnet? ____________

17. What is the rhyme scheme? __________________________________________________________________

18. Go to: http://www.william-shakespeare.info/bubonic-black-plague-elizabethan-

era.htm Answer the following: a. The bubonic plague was also known as the ____________________________ b. List 2 or more things that were done to families and their houses if someone

caught the virus (in “The Picture Depicting Life . . .” paragraph): __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

c. Since no one could leave the house if a family member was sick, how did they get food? (in the “Role of the Watchmen . . .” paragraph) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

d. What was the main way the disease was spread? _______________________________________________________________

e. Scroll down to Information about the Closure of the Elizabethan Globe Theater. What forced the Theater to close three times in 1593, 1603, and 1608? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

19. Go to: http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/index.html Hit the “Insult

Me Again” button a couple of times. Write your favorite insult here, and the Shakespearian play it is taken from: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 Concordance of Shakespeare’s Works  –    Go to: http://www.opensourceshakespeare.com/concordance/

20. On the line next to Find a word form, type hate and hit search. Click on hate (184). Scroll down and click on Romeo and Juliet (11). Scroll down to line 768 and copy the first two complete sentences here (Starts with My and ends with late):

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