Today, you handed in your Sonnet 130 analysis and exercise.
I then instructed you to take out the playscript for The Merchant of Venice.
I explained that the text is set up so that there is a summary at the beginning of every act and scene, that there are explanations of terms and hard to understand words on the left hand side of each page of script, and that there are questions to start us off in discussion about the text we have read.
I then assigned roles for Act I and we began to read it (in a circle format).
As part of this reading, I focused on examples of personification, allusion and the importance of reading with punctuation in mind (stop at semi-colons and periods, chang direction at periods; keep reading at the end of one line if there is no punctuation present to stop you.
We were able to read up to Act I, scene I, line 120 (page 15).
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