TRUE OR FALSE?

Check out the link below. 

There are a ton of facts about Shakespeare's life, works, children, and records. 

Your job is to find 3 true facts about Shakespeare and then make up A lie. 

 The facts should be about Shakepeare's personal life and not about the plot in his plays although you may talk about how he wrote his plays. 

Respond to this post with the 5 facts and 2 lies in a mixed up order.  Wait for the next directions.

http://www.folger.edu/Content/Discover-Shakespeare/Discover-Shakespeare.cfm

Shakespeare WebQuest

Shakespeare's Life Click here and answer the following questions.  Do not post a response.  Use a piece of paper to record the answers.
 

1. How much do we know about Shakespeare's life? 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?

irony

Read the following.  What type of irony is it?  Why?

9 Hilariously Ironic Stories

4/12/2010

The artist who was asked to paint the headmaster who expelled him

An artist who was thrown out of school and told he would 'never amount to much' was commissioned to paint a portrait of the headmaster who expelled him 55 years before. David Ingham was thrown out of Ermysted's Grammar School as a 12-year -old by Marcelus Forster. But the 67-year-old, who went on to become an art teacher himself, was approached by the school to paint a portrait of Mr Forster. (Link)

The man who drowned to death at a lifeguard's party

In September of 1985, there was a celebration held at a New Orleans municipal pool. The party was being held in order to celebrate the first summer in memory without a drowning at the pool. In honor of the occasion, two hundred people gathered, including one hundred certified lifeguards. As the party was breaking up and the four lifeguards on duty began to clear the pool, they found a fully dressed body in the deep end. They tried to revive Jerome Moody, 31, but it was too late. He had drowned surrounded by lifeguards celebrating their successful season. (Link)

Charles Darwin, the man who rose the importance of genetics, married his first cousin.

Darwin was a logical man, and he approached the important issue of marriage like he would approach any other problem. He made a careful pro and con list before deciding to marry his cousin, Emma Wedgwood. But it is ironic that the man who gave rise to the importance of genetics in natural selection chose to marry a first cousin. (Darwin wasn't alone in this - Einstein also married his cousin). (Link)

Pillars

Reflect on your own personal speech before you give it.  How are the 3 pillars used in your speech?  How will this affect your audience?