Saddleback Educational Publishing Saddleback Educational STUDY GUIDE STUDY GUIDE The Timeless Shakespeare Study Guides provide a wealth of reproducible support materials to help students extend the learning experience. STUDY GUIDE - Features include critical background notes on both the author and the times, character descriptions, chapter summaries, and eight “universal” exercises—focusing on plot, theme, T w character, vocabulary, important literary terms, E l f and book report structure. T h n I G h T ISBN-13: 978-1-61651-168-5 ISBN-10: 1-61651-168-0 | Contents | Notes to the Teacher . 4 17 Words and Meanings, Act 4 . 28 Facts About the Author . 5 18 Synonyms and Antonyms, Facts About the Times . 5 Act 4 . 29 Facts About the Characters . 6 19 Recalling Details, Act 4 . 30 Summaries by Act . 6 20 Personalizing the Story, Literary Glossary . 8 Act 4 . 31 Answer Key . 10 21 Comprehension Check, Act 5 . 32 ACT EXERCISES 22 Words and Meanings, Act 5 . 33 1 Comprehension Check, 23 Character Study, Act 5 . 34 Act 1 . 12 24 Language Lab, Act 5 . 35 2 Words and Meanings, Act 1 . 13 25 Synonyms and Antonyms, 3 Character Study, Act 1 . 14 Act 5 . 36 4 Mystery Words, Act 1 . 15 26 Recalling Details, Act 5 . 37 5 Comprehension Check, END-OF-PLAY EXERCISES Act 2 . 16 6 Words and Meanings, Act 2 . 17 27 Sequence of Events . 38 7 Mystery Words, Act 2 . 18 28 Final Exam, Part 1 . 39 8 Language Lab, Act 2 . 19 28 Final Exam, Part 2 . 40 9 Synonyms and Antonyms, UNIVERSAL EXERCISES Act 2 . 20 29 Beyond the Text . 41 10 Recalling Details, Act 2 . 21 30 Plot Study . .42 11 Comprehension Check, Act 3 . 22 31 Theme Analysis . 43 12 Words and Meanings, Act 3 . 23 32 Character Study . 44 13 Language Lab, Act 3 . 24 33 Vocabulary Study . 45 14 Personalizing the Story, 34 Glossary Study . 46 Act 3 . 25 35 Critical Review, Part 1 . 47 15 Sequence of Events, Act 3 . 26 35 Critical Review, Part 2 . 48 16 Comprehension Check, Act 4 . 27 TIMELESS ShAkESPEArE NOTES TO THE TEACHER THE PROGRAM Timeless Shakespeare were expressly for Shakespeare’s plays are designed designed to help students with limited to be used act-by-act as the student’s reading ability gain access to some of reading of the play proceeds . Several the world’s greatest literature . While exercises are provided for each act . One retaining the essence and stylistic always focuses on key vocabulary . Others “flavor” of the original, each Timeless include a simple comprehension check Shakespeare has been expertly adapted and treatment of an important literary to a reading level that never exceeds concept such as character analysis, point grade 4 .0 . of view, inference, or figurative language . A three-page final exam is also included An ideal introduction to later, more in every Timeless Shakespeare Study in-depth investigations of the original Guide . works, Timeless Shakespeare utilize a number of strategies to ensure the USING THE STUDY GUIDES involvement of reluctant readers: airy, Before assigning any of the reproducible uncomplicated page design, shortened exercises, be sure each student has a sentences, easy-reading type style, personal copy of the Glossary and the elimination of archaic words and Facts About the Author and About the spellings, shortened total book length, Times . Students will need to be familiar and handsome illustrations . with many of the literary terms in order to complete the worksheets . Obviously, THE STUDY GUIDES the Facts About the Author and About the The Timeless Shakespeare Study Times lend themselves to any number of Guides provide a wealth of reproducible writing, art, or research projects you may support materials to help students wish to assign . extend the learning experience . Features The title-specific exercises may be used include critical background notes on as a springboard for class discussions or both the author and the times, character role-playing . Alternatively, you may wish descriptions, chapter summaries, and to assign some exercises as homework seven “universal” exercises which may and others as seatwork during the closing be used to follow up the reading of any minutes of a class period . Timeless Shakespeare novel or play . All exercises in this Guide are In addition to the universal exercises, designed to accommodate independent 27 title-specific exercises are included study as well as group work . The to review, test, and enrich students’ occasional assignment of study partners comprehension as well as their grasp of or competitive teams often enhances important vocabulary and concepts . All interest and promotes creativity . reproducible, the worksheets provided 4 Sh AkESPEArE PLAyS FACTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564–1616) William Shakespeare is widely regarded sure what happened to him during the as the finest poet and playwright who ever next seven years, although one account lived . Yet he was the son of illiterate says that he was a schoolmaster . In parents and never attended college! 1592, however, records reveal that he was working in London as both an Much of this remarkable man’s life actor and a playwright . By that year, he is shrouded in mystery . He had been had published two popular poems and dead almost a hundred years before written at least three plays . anyone wrote a short account of his life . But we do know that his mother, Mary Records from various sources show that Arden, was the daughter of a prosperous Shakespeare became wealthy . In 1597, farmer . His father, John Shakespeare, he bought one of the grandest houses was a successful glovemaker who also in Stratford . (It had 10 fireplaces!) The traded in wool, hides, and grain . They next year he bought 10 percent of the lived in an English market town called stock in the handsome Globe Theater Stratford-on-Avon, where William was and a fine house in London . His artistic born in 1564 . Their house still stands . life was very busy and productive . His theatrical company, known as the Until the age of 13 or 14, Shakespeare King’s Men, presented a variety of probably attended the Stratford grammar plays, week after week . It is thought school, where he read the great Latin that he rehearsed in the mornings, acted classics of Cicero, Virgil, and Seneca . in the afternoons, and wrote at night . Some stories say that he had to leave school early because of his father’s After 1612, he spent most of his time financial difficulties . But there is no in Stratford with his family . He died official record of his life until 1582, there, at the age of 52, on April 23, 1616 . when he married Anne Hathaway at The tomb of the great literary genius the age of 18 . By 1585, he and Anne still stands at Holy Trinity Church in had three children . No one knows for Stratford . FACTS ABOUT THE TIMES i n 1564, when Shakespeare was born . in 1616, when Shakespeare died . About 100,000 people lived in Sir Walter Raleigh began his search London; the horsedrawn coach was for El Dorado; tobacco was becoming introduced in England; the great Italian a popular crop in Virginia; Pocahontas sculptor and painter, Michelangelo, died; the Catholic church forbade died; an outbreak of plague killed more Galileo from conducting any further than 20,000 Londoners . scientific investigations . 5 TwL E fTh NIghT FACTS ABOUT THE CHARACTERS VIOLA a witty and beautiful young MALVOLIO Olivia’s straitlaced, self- noblewoman who disguises herself as a man righteous steward who becomes the butt of (Cesario) and ends up falling in love with a cruel trick played on him by Sir Toby, Sir the duke she serves . She faces a dilemma Andrew, and Maria when Olivia, the woman the duke is courting, falls in love with her (as Cesario) . FESTE the clown, or fool, of Olivia’s household, he offers several characters good ORSINO the powerful Duke of Illyria advice in spite of his foolishness who pines for Olivia’s love in an egotistical way . His affections don’t shift until the final SIR TOBY BELCH Olivia’s rowdy, scene when he discovers that Cesario is drunken uncle, who eventually finds a mate actually Viola . in Olivia’s sharp-witted gentlewoman Olivia’s clever gentlewoman-in- OLIVIA a wealthy and beautiful MARIA noblewoman who’s in deep mourning for waiting who, like Malvolio, has ambitions her dead brother . Although she’s being to rise in the world courted by Orsino and Sir Andrew Aguecheek, SIR ANDREW AGUECHEEK a her melancholy doesn’t end until she meets bumbling idiot, he’s a friend of Toby’s who Sebastian, Viola’s brother . vainly tries to court Olivia SEBASTIAN Viola’s lost twin brother, ANTONIO Sebastian’s friend and he’s amazed when people in Illyria, protector who rescues Sebastian after his mistaking him for Viola, think they know shipwreck him . He’s surprised and pleased when Olivia wants to marry him . FABIAN Olivia’s servant SUMMARIES BY ACT ACT 1: As Duke Orsino of Illyria moons over joins Toby in flattering and encouraging Sir Olivia, Viola arrives in the town after being Andrew as a joke . Olivia is not amused by rescued from a shipwreck that presumably either man’s drunken prattle . Feste, Olivia’s took the life of her twin brother Sebastian . In fool, makes jokes to lighten Olivia’s mood order to support herself, she disguises herself while Malvolio, the stuffy steward of the as a man and finds work as a page in the duke’s household, objects to Feste’s presumptuous household . There, she quickly becomes the attempts at humor . Maria announces that duke’s favorite servant and is sent to declare Olivia has a visitor at the gate, but she Orsino’s love to Olivia .