Brit Lit:

Today:

We used fake blood and acted out Act III, sc IV. 

We looked at some of the 1,700 words that Shakespeare is credited with inventing or using for the first time.

Journal Prompt:  Please choose 10 of the listed words that Shakespeare invented and use them in a story describing your Halloween.  Please circle each word used in your journal.  1 page.

Words Shakespeare Invented

 

academe	accused	addiction	advertising	amazement
arouse	assassination	backing	bandit	bedroom
beached	besmirch	birthplace	blanket	bloodstained
barefaced	blushing	bet	bump	buzzer
caked	cater	champion	circumstantial	cold-blooded
compromise	courtship	countless	critic	dauntless
dawn	deafening	discontent	dishearten	drugged
dwindle	epileptic	equivocal	elbow	excitement
exposure	eyeball	fashionable	fixture	flawed
frugal	generous	gloomy	gossip	green-eyed
gust	hint	hobnob	hurried	impede
impartial	invulnerable	jaded	label	lackluster
laughable	lonely	lower	luggage	lustrous
madcap	majestic	marketable	metamorphize	mimic
monumental	moonbeam	mountaineer	negotiate	noiseless
obscene	obsequiously	ode	olympian	outbreak
panders	pedant	premeditated	puking	radiance
rant	remorseless	savagery	scuffle	secure
skim milk	submerge	summit	swagger	torture
tranquil	undress	unreal	varied	vaulting
worthless	zany	gnarled	grovel

I gave you the time after lunch to work on constructing your script for the Macbeth Movie Project.  We will be filming these Monday and Tuesday, so if you did not finish the script, please have it done for Monday.