Life and times of william shakespeare webquest answers

Shakespeare Web Quest

William Shakespeare WebQuest

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· Introduction , page 2

· Task , page 2

· The Process , page 3

· Annotated Bibliography , page 7 and 8

Welcome! Welcome to a Webquest that will help you understand the life and times of "The Bard" himself, William Shakespeare.

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Introduction
image2.jpgWilliam Shakespeare is one of the most famous playwrights in British Literature. His tragedies and comedies have transcended time and are read by people all over the world. This includes high school students who analyze and dissect the plays in classrooms across America. However, Shakespeare lived in a time that is quite different from ours. It is important to understand the Renaissance and the role it played in the development of Shakespeare's plays.

Your Task

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Today you will spend time researching the life and times of William Shakespeare. You will be provided with the appropriate sources and questions that must be answered using these sources. You will have two class periods to complete this lesson. Please be aware of time, as anything that is not completed in school must be completed at home. Keep in mind as you read how different Shakespeare's time was from our own.

The Discovery Element

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Below are questions that should be answered in the spaces provided. Shakespeare's Life—see http://bardweb.net/bio.html to answer these questions. 1. How much do we know about Shakespeare's life? ___________________________________

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Why? ________________________________________________________________________

2. Where was Shakespeare born? __________________________________________________ 3. What date was he born on? _____________________________________________________ 4. Did Shakespeare ever get married? ____________________

If so, to whom? ________________________________________________________________ 5. Shakespeare established himself as an ____________________ and _____________________ 6. What day did he die? _______________________________

What is unusual about this date? ___________________________________________________ 7. What did he leave his wife in his will? ____________________________________________

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Religion—see http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/religion-elizabethan-england.htm to answer these questions 8. What were the two major religions in Elizabethan England? ___________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________ 9. Who dictated the favored religion? _______________________________________________ 10. Which Monarchs reigned during Shakespeare’s life? (hint: you’ll have to look elsewhere for this answer) __________________________________________________________________

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When? _______________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ 11. Which religion did each Monarch believe in? ______________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ 12. How did each Monarch treat those who did not follow their favored religion? ____________

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_____________________________________________________________________________ 13. Why did Queen Elizabeth I ban all performances of religious plays and stories? See http://www.musesrealm.net/writings/shakespeareengland.html to answer this question. _____________________________________________________________________________

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Elizabethan Period—see http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-period.htm to answer these questions 14. What was the Elizabethan Period? _______________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ 15. When was this period? ________________________________________________________ 16. What was the most significant invention of this time and why? ________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ 17. What did this lead to a renewed interest in? _______________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________

18. During this period, what were unexplained events blamed on? ________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________ 19. Why were people of this period superstitious? _____________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________ 20. What were the four humors and what were they associated with? See http://www.greekmedicine.net/b_p/Four_Humors.html to answer this question.

_____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ 21. How was Elizabethan class structure maintained? See https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/the-social-structure-in-elizabethan-england to answer this question _____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________ 22. What was the Chain of Being and what did it uphold? See http://schoolworkhelper.net/the-chain-of-being-shakespeare/ to answer this question. _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________

23. What is the Rotae Fortuna? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rota_Fortunae to answer this question. ______________________________________________________________________

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Education—See http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/ideas/boys.html to answer these questions. 24. What did education depend on? _________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________ 25. What was the main purpose of schooling? ________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________ 26. Why were students taught Latin? _______________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________ 27. What were girls from wealthy families educated in? See https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/ideas/education/girls.html to answer this question. _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ 28. Why were courses in university conducted in Latin? See http://elizabethan.org/compendium/54.html to answer this question.

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29. There is no question 29. Do not answer. Elizabethan Theatre—See http://www.britainexpress.com/History/elizabethan-theatre.htm to answer these questions. 30. What was the general feeling towards plays during this period in time? _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ 31. What was the name of the first theater? __________________________________________ 32. What was the name of them most famous theatre? __________________________________

33. What happened to this theatre? _________________________________________________ 34. Where did people sit or not sit? _________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________ 35. When did they have performances? _____________________________________________

Why? ________________________________________________________________________ 36. How many women performed in these plays? _____________________________________ 37. What did the audience do if they didn't like the performance? ________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________ Shakespeare's Influence—See http://www.musesrealm.net/writings/shakespeareengland.html to answer these questions. 38. What does Shakespeare's work provide reference for? _______________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ 39. What were Shakespeare's histories a tribute to? ____________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ 40. What was Shakespeare attempting to do with these tributes? _________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ See http://www.shakespeare-online.com/faq/influencefaq.html and http://shakespeare-online.com/biography/wordsinvented.html to answer these questions. 41. How many words did Shakespeare invent? ________________________________________ 42. Give an example of a word or phrase we have gotten from Shakespeare. ________________ _____________________________________________________________________________

43. Name one poet who was influenced by Shakespeare. _______________________________

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How to Create an Annotated Bibliography
image5.jpgYou have been provided with websites to complete your research on the life and times of William Shakespeare. Use these websites as sources for your Annotated Bibliography, a sample of which can be found on the next page. You must create ten citations with annotations to receive full credit. To create an annotated bibliography l like this, use https://www.mybib.com/tools/mla-citation-generator and fill in the information from the website. You must create ten annotated citations, which include a proper citation reference that conforms to MLA, as well as a description of the referenced web page that uses the following format:

1. A statement defining the purpose of the web page.

2. A quote from the web page that supports the purpose.

3. A sentence that explains how the quote supports the purpose.

When using the above web site, choose MLA 8 as the citation style. Your citations must be arranged in alphabetical order by author. If the author is not known, alphabetize by web page or article name instead. If your citation begins with a name of the article or web page (not an author’s name), be sure to move the article (a, an, the) to the end of the name.

Example: The Crystal Monkey

Change to Crystal Monkey, the.

The next page shows examples of how to set up each bibliographic entry following the above format.

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Shakespeare Annotated Bibliography

Foster, Race. “Weening Puppies.” Drs. Foster and Smith, 24 Jan. 2017, http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?c=2+2108&aid=887.

This is an informative article on how to ween your puppy and some of the problems associated with weening. Because dogs are now domesticated and do not live in the wild, “it is done because puppies generally make their way to their new home at about seven weeks of age, and since their mother is not going with them, the pups need to have their gastrointestinal tracts accustomed to eating commercially prepared foods.” When dogs were wild, puppies stayed with their mothers until they matured and were able to find food for themselves, which no longer happens today.

Nohrden, Patrick T. “The Crystal Monkey.” Patrick T. Nohrden, Aug. 2015, http://nohrden.com/.

This website describes the novel The Crystal MonkeyThe Crystal Monkey by Patrick Nohrden with an emphasis on the difficult childhood of the main character, Min Li. An example of her hardship is when, after coming into possession of the only toy she ever owned, “Min Li's father comes home for the lunar new year holiday, finds the crystal monkey, and sells it, using the money to buy liquor for himself.” This demonstrates the hardship under which Min Li lived and how, when she has a simple glimpse of a normal childhood, even that is taken away.