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• Zip Zap Zop! (3 min)
• Sword Game (7 min)

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• How many A’s in A?

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• Walk around murmuring your speech….
• Get to know it

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• Move around reading your speech and when you reach the end of a line:
  • kick the wall
  • snap your fingers
  • change position
• That thing we call a line is a line in this class
• Does it often feel like it would be natural to stop at the end of a line?
• That we call an end stop
• Does it always feel natural to stop at the end of a line?
• That we call an enjambment or a carry-on-through

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Instructions:

• Try seeing if you can take a quick pause somewhere in the middle of a line
• That little pause you can take, we call a caesura
• You can take it any time it make sense
• In performance you’ll probably do it spontaneously
• The important thing to remember, from a terminology point of view, is that a caesura happens in the middle of a line, and an end stop happens at the end of a line.

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Walking the Sentence:

• See: Walking the Sentence Exercise
• We call sentences thoughts

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Colons and Semi-Colons:

• See: Working the Colons and Semi-colons
• These are thoughts within thoughts
• We’ll call thoughts made up of more than one thought complex thoughts

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Repetition of Vowels:

• Try just saying the vowels in the speech by ignoring all the consonants and simply putting an “h” just before each vowel
• Do you find some vowel sounds are repeated?
• Volunteers?
• This we call assonance 
• Assonance is a thing
• Try repeating vowel sounds
• Vowels let out our emotions
• They are open
• Exercises: Elongate vowel sounds
• Exercises: See how it builds
• Keep this sheet to work on when you’re bored. This is your assonance sheet
• Does anyone have rhyme?
• For now treat it as if you mean to do it.

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Assignment 1

• Review Assignment 1 Part A only
• Words you don’t understand
• Words that mean something different
• Look up definitions
  • Shakespeare’s words
  • Arden or other play with copious footnotes
  • Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary
  • OED
  • Any authorized source
  • Shakespeare’s Bawdy, by Eric Partridge (ebook)
• Translate the speech or scene
• Scene partners, find a fair way to divide the labour between you if the line differential is significant, otherwise just do your own lines.  You can also split up the job of finding definitions. Hand in the work you did only.  If you’re happy to be marked together that’s ok too.
• Speech people, if your speech is longer than 35 lines, I we can come to an agreement.
• There is a Sample of how to do the definitions and translation in the SAMPLES folder

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Once it’s known that the Princess is a prisoner on the Death Star, what do Luke and Han do?

• Luke tries to convince Han to rescue her
• For Han it’s a little less clear
• He seems to want Luke to stay put
• Or he could be trying to get Luke to understand that rescuing the Princess is a terrible idea
• Or he could be trying
• Which one would motivate you most easily to say:
  • Princess? What’s going on?
  • What are you talking about?
  • Now look, don’t get any funny ideas. The old man wants us to wait right here.
  • I’m not going anywhere.
  • Marching into the detention area is not what I had in mind.
  • Better her than me.
  • Rich?
  • What?
  • I don’t know, I can imagine quite a bit.
  • I better.
  • All right kid. You better be right about this.  What’s your plan?

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What did we learn?

• Line
• End stop
• Enjambment or carry on through
• caesura
• assonance
• Vowels can be repeated for some reason
• Some people have rhyme!