Spelling List Week 3

Ladies,

Here are your 20 words for this week. You need to find your meanings and complete your sentences tonight. The test will be on Monday Week 4, Period 2.

1. boundary
2. bracelet
3. brackets
4. brilliant
5. broccoli
6. browse
7. cafeteria
8. calendar
9. calories
10. campaign
11. cancellation
12. capital
13. carelessness
14. carpenter
15. cashier
16. catalogue
17. celebrated
18. challenge
19. character
20. chef

Character Profiles

Continuing on from your quotes and the arrangement of them under character headings you need to develop comprehensive character profiles.

For each central character consider the following:

1. General information about the character. E.g. Age, role in the play, relationships to other characters, etc.
2. What themes the character helps to demonstrate and how they achieve this.
3. Relevant quotes and examples from the plot that are significant to this character, you should already have some from the previous exercise but you can continue to add to these. Be aware that you don't simply have to use quotes that the character says, you should also consider things others say about them. Make sure that you explain the quotes, don't just list quotes and rely on them to explain themselves.

Quotes from Shakespeare

Identify the speaker. To which character does the particular quotation relate? How? The first one is a worked example.

Finally, each quotation in your blog under headings: that is, one heading for each of the characters to whom the speech most relates (eg Claudio, Hero, Beatrice, Benedick, Leonato, Don Pedro, Don John etcetera). You should end up with a range of quotations for each of the major figures in the play that together, create ‘pictures’ of the characters.

“He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion” (I, i, 13-5).

1. Here a messenger, reporting to Leonato, is describing Claudio’s prowess in battle. Claudio has displayed maturity beyond his years and though he seems an unassuming character, Claudio has demonstrated great strength and courage.

“In our last conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the man governed with one” (I, i, 62-4).
beatrice

“He is sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker runs presently mad” (I, i, 83-4).
Beatrice, talking about Benedict

“Only this commendation I can afford her, that were she other than she is she were unhandsome” (I, i, 168-70).


In mine eye she is the sweetest lady that ever I looked on” (I, i, 182-3).

“Shall I never see a bachelor of three-score again? Go to … thou wilt needs thrust they neck into a yoke” (I, i, 193-5).

“Thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in the despite of beauty” (I, i, 226-7).


“But now … that war thoughts have left their places vacant, in their rooms come thronging soft and delicate desires” (I, i, 290-2).

“If thou dost love fair Hero … I will break with her and with her father, and thou shalt have her” (I, i, 297-9).


“I must be said when I have cause, and smile at no man’s jests; eat when I have stomach, and wait for no man’s leisure” (I, iii, 13-5).

“I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace. And it better fits my blood to be disdained of all … I am trusted with a muzzle, and enfranchised with a clog … let me be that I am, and seek not to alter me” (I, iii, 25-35).
Don John

“How tartly that gentleman looks. I never can see him but I am heart burned an hour after” (II, i, 3-4).


“Why he is the Prince’s jester, a very dull fool. Only his gift is in devising impossible slanders. None but libertines delight in him” (II, i, 137-9).

“Signor, you are very near my brother in his love. He is enamoured on Hero. I pray you dissuade him from her. She is no equal for his birth” (II, i, 164-6).

“T’is certain … the Prince woos for himself. Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love” (II, i, 175-7).

“I would not marry her though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed” (II, i, 249-51).

“I will in the interim undertake one of Hercules’ labours, which is to bring Signor Benedick and the Lady Beatrice into a mountain of affection th’ one with th’ other” (II, i, 360-3).

Universal Themes

One of the reasons we study Shakespeare's plays is because of the universal themes that can be found in the content.

Answer the following:

1. What do you think a universal theme is?
2. What universal themes can be found in Much Ado About Nothing?
3. Knowing about universal themes, write a paragraph addressing the following: Is Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing relevant for a modern audience? Explain your answer with reference to the play's content and characters.

Who Am I?

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Below are 14 "who am I?" questions that give you a clue about a character from Shakespeare's play, Much Ado About Nothing. You need to copy and paste the statements into blog and under each one name the character it refers to. You can start this task now, but, you will not be able to finish it until we have finished watching the film.

1. I am brave in battle and I have declared that I will never marry. Who am I?

2. I am wicked and illegitimate. Who am I?

3. Borachio wants to call me Hero, to fool Don Pedro and Claudio. Who am I?

4. I am a young Lord from Florence and I fall in love with Hero. Who am I?

5. Leonato is my brother. Who am I?

6. I am a constable and I have trouble with my words. Who am I?

7. Hero is my daughter and Beatrice is my neice. Who am I?

8. I upset the constable dreadfully when I called him an ass. Who am I?

9. I say I hate Benedict, but, I really love him. Who am I?

10. I am the Prince of Arragon and I have defeated my brother in battle. Who am I?

11. I am a priest and I helped Hero regain her reputation. Who am I?

12. I am Don John's nasty sidekick. Who am I?

13. I am in love with Claudio. Who am I?

14. I reveal that Hero is dead and Don John has escaped. Who am I?

Spelling List Week 1, Term 4

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Girls,

Here is your list of 20 words for Week 1. We will have the test on Monday in Period 2.

Tonight you need to find definitions and write your 20 sentences.

1.abandon

2.absorb

3.abuse

4.accent

5.accident

6.accompanied

7.accomplishment

8.accurate

9.acquaint

10.acquire

11.acres

12.activities

13.acute

14.adapt

15.adaptation

16.adequate

17.adjustment

18.administer

19.admiration

20.admit

Starting "Much Ado About Nothing"

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Using the Library’s resources and/or the internet, complete the following:

1. Find out when the play, “Much Ado About Nothing”, was written and describe the storyline.

2. Identify some of the main characters, dividing them into two groups: ‘good’ and ‘evil’.

Do some of them change for better or worse (give an example or two)? Do they change back?

3. What seem to be the play’s messages? List below. Do you think the play is relevant today?

4. What is the difference between classical tragedy and comedy? Into which category (if either)does this play seem to fit?

Closing activity:

Design a poster advertising the play, using some of the techniques of advertising that we studied in class. Include details such as where/when the performance is being staged, cost of tickets, cast, name of play, name of playwright ...