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- "Lord, what fools these mortals be." - from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
- "Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde
- "A man who does not think for himself does not think at all." - Oscar Wilde
- "You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." - Winnie the Pooh
- "I want to try defying gravity!" - Elphaba, from "Wicked"
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Shakespeare By Numbers
(Thanks to "Shakespeare in American Communities")
* Shakespeare's estimated vocabulary: between 15,000 and 29,000 words (at least double or triple the vocabulary of other great English writers!)
* Total speeches in Shakespeare's works: 31,959
* Total lines in Shakespeare's works: 118,406
* Total words in Shakespeare's works: 884,647
* Plays with most rhyming lines: Love's Labour's Lost (62.2%) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (43.4%)
* Characters with most lines: Hamlet (1,569), Richard III (1,161) and Iago from Othello (1,117)
* Longest play: Hamlet (4,042 lines)
* Shortest play: The Comedy of Errors (1,787 lines)
* Shakespeare's estimated vocabulary: between 15,000 and 29,000 words (at least double or triple the vocabulary of other great English writers!)
* Total speeches in Shakespeare's works: 31,959
* Total lines in Shakespeare's works: 118,406
* Total words in Shakespeare's works: 884,647
* Plays with most rhyming lines: Love's Labour's Lost (62.2%) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (43.4%)
* Characters with most lines: Hamlet (1,569), Richard III (1,161) and Iago from Othello (1,117)
* Longest play: Hamlet (4,042 lines)
* Shortest play: The Comedy of Errors (1,787 lines)
Blogging Rules
1. You will be required to furnish me with your Email address and password to your blog. This will only be used to remove materials that are not school appropriate. If you are uncomfortable with this, set up a separate Email account and password for just this purpose. I will test this address and password to make sure it works. If it doesn't, or it is ever changed, your blog will be blocked.
2. Please, no last names, school names or addresses. No personal information (last names, contact information, pictures, etc...) should be included anywhere in your blog. This parallels what the school district's policy is regarding these matters. Even Email addresses should not be made public on the blog.
3. Do not link to your personal blog/journal from your school blog; you might reveal information on there that you don't want to reveal on your school blog. Use your online content as an extension of the classroom, and in doing so, leave anything that unsaid in the classroom unsaid online. Make sure that anything you write in a blog or link to your blog is something that you understand and want to be associated with.
4. If you want to write your opinion on a topic, make sure you're not going to be offensive to anyone as you write it. Use constructive/productive/purposeful criticism, supporting any idea, comment, or critique you have with evidence.
5. Always make sure you check over your post for spelling errors, grammar errors, and your use of words. Remember that this IS a class project, so it should be grammatically correct. That doesn’t mean you can’t use slang, for example, but at least spell it correctly!
6. Never disrespect anyone in your blog, whether it's a person, an organization, or just a general idea. You don't want someone making a stab at what you are passionate about; don't do it to someone else. All students - and teachers - should be careful and conscious about what they write because their blogs exist on the Internet, which is a public place. Believe it or not, people from other states and countries read our blogs, so only post what you want the world to know. This means that all writing should be school-appropriate, respectful, and free from harmful, hateful, or offensive language.
7. Don't write about other people without permission; when you DO get their permission, use first names only. Never share someone else’s last name.
8. Watch your language! We're not at home. We are at school. This has to be school appropriate.
9. Make sure things you write about are factual. Don't be posting about things that aren't true.
10. Keep it education-oriented. Don’t discuss your out-of-school plans for the week. Information and ideas on the blog should only be on school-related topics. More specifically, your blogs should deal with ideas related to what we are doing in class. These blogs are not places to socialize or meet other people. One shouldn't try to make friends as if it were Myspace. The key to safe blogging is to use your own good judgment in what you say or do.
11. Students and teachers have the right to delete any comments posted by someone else on their blogs that they do not feel comfortable with. Some good rules would be to consistently check your blog, and if any comments come up from people you don't know, report it to your teacher right away. Do not reply to those comments.
12. Be sure that anything you write you are proud of. It can and will come back to haunt you if you don't. In the future, when you are looking for a job, it will be possible for an employer to discover some immature things posted when you were younger. I'm sure that nobody would want this to happen, but it will if unnecessary things are written.
13. Do not plagiarize; Give credit where it is due.
14. Do not be afraid to express your ideas, but don’t overgeneralize or make derogatory/inflammatory remarks. Do not post anything that is not school appropriate. I will remove it.
15. Take all online content creation seriously, posting only things that are meaningful and taking your time when you write.
16. DO NOT CONDUCT A CHAT SESSION. Do not use your public writing (blog posts, comments, discussion topics, wiki edits) as a chat room. Instead, save IM language for private conversations.
17. Never access another student's account in order to pose as them or look at their personal content; instead, advise them when they haven't logged out of their blog.
18. Only post photos that are school appropriate and either in the creative commons or correctly cited. If necessary, you will have to wait until you get Sims’ permission. When posting a photo or video, be sure to cite where it came from. Say something like, “Photo by Harry Blackman” or “Video from Teachertube.com”.
19. Do not spam (including, but not limited to, meaningless messages, mass messages, and repetitive messages)
20. Remember blogging is much more than writing posts; taking the time to leave comments on posts to provide feedback or ask questions is an important part of both the readers and blogger’s learning process.
21. Since the use of discussion boards, podcasts, learning networks, and blogs is a way of differentiating instruction, there is always an alternative assignment for students who wish not to participate in the online activity.
Infractions of these rules will lead to the following consequences in order of severity and number of offense:
1. Warning by teacher, and editing or deletion of offending post/comment/picture/video, failure of assignment. Personal apology to those offended by the infraction (individual students, one class, or whole blogging community).
2. Temporary loss of blogging privileges, editing or deletion of offending post/comment/picture/video, failure of assignment. Personal apology to those offended by the infraction (individual students, one class, or whole blogging community).
3. Permanent loss of blogging privileges (duration of semester), editing or deletion of offending post/comment, failure of assignment. Personal apology to those offended by the infraction (individual students, one class, or whole blogging community).
2. Please, no last names, school names or addresses. No personal information (last names, contact information, pictures, etc...) should be included anywhere in your blog. This parallels what the school district's policy is regarding these matters. Even Email addresses should not be made public on the blog.
3. Do not link to your personal blog/journal from your school blog; you might reveal information on there that you don't want to reveal on your school blog. Use your online content as an extension of the classroom, and in doing so, leave anything that unsaid in the classroom unsaid online. Make sure that anything you write in a blog or link to your blog is something that you understand and want to be associated with.
4. If you want to write your opinion on a topic, make sure you're not going to be offensive to anyone as you write it. Use constructive/productive/purposeful criticism, supporting any idea, comment, or critique you have with evidence.
5. Always make sure you check over your post for spelling errors, grammar errors, and your use of words. Remember that this IS a class project, so it should be grammatically correct. That doesn’t mean you can’t use slang, for example, but at least spell it correctly!
6. Never disrespect anyone in your blog, whether it's a person, an organization, or just a general idea. You don't want someone making a stab at what you are passionate about; don't do it to someone else. All students - and teachers - should be careful and conscious about what they write because their blogs exist on the Internet, which is a public place. Believe it or not, people from other states and countries read our blogs, so only post what you want the world to know. This means that all writing should be school-appropriate, respectful, and free from harmful, hateful, or offensive language.
7. Don't write about other people without permission; when you DO get their permission, use first names only. Never share someone else’s last name.
8. Watch your language! We're not at home. We are at school. This has to be school appropriate.
9. Make sure things you write about are factual. Don't be posting about things that aren't true.
10. Keep it education-oriented. Don’t discuss your out-of-school plans for the week. Information and ideas on the blog should only be on school-related topics. More specifically, your blogs should deal with ideas related to what we are doing in class. These blogs are not places to socialize or meet other people. One shouldn't try to make friends as if it were Myspace. The key to safe blogging is to use your own good judgment in what you say or do.
11. Students and teachers have the right to delete any comments posted by someone else on their blogs that they do not feel comfortable with. Some good rules would be to consistently check your blog, and if any comments come up from people you don't know, report it to your teacher right away. Do not reply to those comments.
12. Be sure that anything you write you are proud of. It can and will come back to haunt you if you don't. In the future, when you are looking for a job, it will be possible for an employer to discover some immature things posted when you were younger. I'm sure that nobody would want this to happen, but it will if unnecessary things are written.
13. Do not plagiarize; Give credit where it is due.
14. Do not be afraid to express your ideas, but don’t overgeneralize or make derogatory/inflammatory remarks. Do not post anything that is not school appropriate. I will remove it.
15. Take all online content creation seriously, posting only things that are meaningful and taking your time when you write.
16. DO NOT CONDUCT A CHAT SESSION. Do not use your public writing (blog posts, comments, discussion topics, wiki edits) as a chat room. Instead, save IM language for private conversations.
17. Never access another student's account in order to pose as them or look at their personal content; instead, advise them when they haven't logged out of their blog.
18. Only post photos that are school appropriate and either in the creative commons or correctly cited. If necessary, you will have to wait until you get Sims’ permission. When posting a photo or video, be sure to cite where it came from. Say something like, “Photo by Harry Blackman” or “Video from Teachertube.com”.
19. Do not spam (including, but not limited to, meaningless messages, mass messages, and repetitive messages)
20. Remember blogging is much more than writing posts; taking the time to leave comments on posts to provide feedback or ask questions is an important part of both the readers and blogger’s learning process.
21. Since the use of discussion boards, podcasts, learning networks, and blogs is a way of differentiating instruction, there is always an alternative assignment for students who wish not to participate in the online activity.
Infractions of these rules will lead to the following consequences in order of severity and number of offense:
1. Warning by teacher, and editing or deletion of offending post/comment/picture/video, failure of assignment. Personal apology to those offended by the infraction (individual students, one class, or whole blogging community).
2. Temporary loss of blogging privileges, editing or deletion of offending post/comment/picture/video, failure of assignment. Personal apology to those offended by the infraction (individual students, one class, or whole blogging community).
3. Permanent loss of blogging privileges (duration of semester), editing or deletion of offending post/comment, failure of assignment. Personal apology to those offended by the infraction (individual students, one class, or whole blogging community).
11 comments:
To the future speech students, don't wait till the last minute to memorize a speech. I know I did on some of them and I know I could've done better when I had to present the speech. Good Luck to you all!! I assure you it's not as bad as people say it is :)
I would advice all of you to practice your speech more. Especially do not wait the day before to memorize it, or you will not remember it clearly. Practice in front of other people you do not have in class, to get used to an audience.
-Do not be nervous, everybody makes mistakes and has stage fright, you won't be the only one.
-Turn in your work on time, don't think you can turn it in later because you'll more than likely end up forgetting about it.
-Have fun with it and don't stress out.
My advice for you is dont procrastinate. It will be easy to do but you will be able to tell if you have not practiced your speech. So make sure you turn everything in on time and practice practice practice.
Do not procrastinate on learning your speech. Speech is a really fun class and is not near as hard as I thought it would be. Getting started on your first speech is about the hardest thing to do. After the first speech is over the class is a lot better.
This year my worst problem was procrastination. That is a very hard thing to get out of the habit of. I think that it would also be of major help if you made sure to write your OWN speech. If you just copy and paste it wont stick in your brain and you have to work harder to memorize it. Also practicing aloud with people around helps a lot as well.
When you are in Mrs. Sims' classes always, no matter what, do you assignments! I don't care how busy, angry, sad or scared you are. That's what you have to do. Don't put it off until the last minute because you will fail. This may seem harsh but once you get a speech written (on time) start learning it right away because when you get up infront of everyone you will hesitate and you will forget unless you have practiced over and over and over again. This is my advice and it sounds like everyone is probably giving just about the same advice as me, so take the hint. LISTEN!
You shouldn't wait and not care about speeches or just not do them. It can be a fun class. You just have to put effort into it. If you think you won't do well you won't. Just get your credit and get it over with. Don't have to do it again.
The advice that I would give anyone before they came into this class is to practice a lot, don't wait until the last second to look at it, don't get yourself all worked up over doing a speech, and just be very confident. Right after you get your speech done and your outline, my advice is to practice it all the time. Do not wait a couple days before it's time to present it or it will make things so much harder. You shouldn't get yourself all stressed out over it or it will make it so much harder for you. The last thing is definitely be confident about it. Get up there at the podeum and don't be nervous. If you are way too nervous, odds are that you are going to mess up and not do very good.
If you're in Sims' Speech class next year make sure you do NOT procrastinate.. It can and will be tragic, trust me. Make sure you learn your speeches ahead of time and always get them put on moodle early as well. If you don't get them on there in time, it can also be tragic. Just be sure to do your work and use a little effort on the way. Do that and you're good to go! :) Just remember, PRACTICE those speeches!!
That is ALL excellent advice. I hope my future students listen to you!
I will miss this class. You have been a great group to have@
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