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| Don't you just love my new mug? I love the scripture, the handle, the little bird that is painted on the inside of the cup, and it keeps my Kona coffee so deliciously warm. I received it as part of my prize package for winning the Homeschool Blog Award for Best Nature Study Blog of 2011. My thanks to my readers for voting for me and to Dayspring for the nice gift. |
Now for a little Shakespeare Talk~
When you read some authors you can nibble and taste, but with Shakespeare you need to just dive in and eat the whole thing. Once you start, you need to just keep going....the dialogue at first can seem incomprehensible, your ear doesn't process the sounds and words as part of the English language. It takes a few pages before your brain snaps into focus and you really do start to understand what is going on.
- Over the years I have learned that for our family the best way to offer Shakespeare is to listen to audio books read by professional actors (on Naxos.com).
- When we tackle a new Shakespeare play, hearing the words read correctly helped us to imagine the play being acted out on a stage like it was originally intended.
- At least for the first time through a new play, we fire up the audio version, sit with books open, and follow along.
- Mr. B pauses the audio when we need to check the modern version for understanding.
- The vocabulary in a Shakespeare play can be quite challenging and we enjoy learning a good new word. We look up words we don't know as we go along.
- Shakespeare is also good for a few new phrases. We often recognize a saying we use all the time and we were just not aware that it came from Shakespeare. That makes it fun.
It is my goal to include Shakespeare in our literature study each term.
It is always worth the effort and gives us much to think about.
You may be interested in reading from my archives: Shakespeare for Christians.
6 comments:
It is a beautiful mug. Congratulations...you so deserve the award.
Yes, congratulations. I'm always glad to find your post in my reader. I should come by and comment.
I've never looked at Naxos before and I thank you for the link. I'm been looking at it now and wondering if you have a paid subscription or not. I've recently discovered Librvox and am so impressed and hoped/wondered if Naxos free sub. might be the same.
Thank you,
Luci
Luc1,
I pay #20 a year to use Naxos and we use it almost every school day for listening and research.
I like the convenience of having so much right at my fingertips and it makes it easy to plan things for my son.
Money well spent that saves me time and energy. :)
Congrats on the award, and the mug. It's lovely!
Jazz (almost 14!) and I are enjoying a BBC Radio production of Much Ado about Nothing right now in the car on the way to or from his charter school. It's a fabulous production. David Tennant (our favorite Doctor from Doctor Who) is Benedict.
http://www.bookdepository.com/Much-Ado-About-Nothing-William-Shakespeare/9781408470015
Hi Barb! Let me add my congratulations as well. And I love the mug! Sometimes I need that reminder (okay, every day) about God.
It's funny that you posted about Shakespeare. I've been researching the same with the idea of writing a post or ebook about studying the Bard. Then I found out "it's all been done before," so I tossed the idea. I'm not acquainted with Naxos, either, so I appreciate the information. Thanks!
I love listening to Shakespeare on audiobook! I get mine from Librivox for free, and though some performances are better than others, the leads are almost always fantastic--Hamlet, especially. :)
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