Putting on Shakespeare Plays ~ CM Education

These photos are a couple of years or more old, but...

I want to affirm that both younger and older students can handle reading and performing Shakespeare. They just need to be given the permission of plenty of time to read it (in a class setting is more fun!) and narrate it over a term or two! Here are just a few examples from rehearsals for various Shakespeare plays in our CM co-op! I wanted to put these in one post, for easier reference.

Our Narrators ~ "All the world's a stage!"

Orlando (my son) and Oliver

Celia and Rosalind aka Ganymede

Orlando and Oliver in "As You Like It"

Orlando (my son :-) and his love letter from Rosalind

~ HAMLET ~

Hamlet and Laertes

Very intense moment between Hamlet and Laertes (and excellent acting by our cast)

The younger students are rehearsing for "The Tempest"

and they are doing a knock-out job

Do not be afraid to give Shakespeare a try with a few friends! Our group (the youngers) even performed for us in the backyard of one of our family's homes for an end-of-year picnic.

Take time to try some Shakespeare!

Javamom

Our garden ~ Upon The Anniversary of The Bard's Birthday

Onion row and rose bushes - the scent of these roses carries on the wind!


one view of tomato row

another view of tomato row


Mediterranean Globe Basil


First tomatoes - minor freeze damage (just a few days before Easter) is evident



onion top ready to burst!


part of onion row


The overwintered onions are about to explode on top

I'll post the peppers and other veg and herbs as soon as the sun nears sunset (better photos that way).

Our young garden from two weeks ago:

Upon this morn, hath this humble mistress the garden watered? Pray, didst she waiver from the duty? Yeah and nay--with such import didst she attend to it; didst embrace such satisfying tranquility. Much good it attends to her gentle heart."

Happy 445th Anniversary of Shakespeare's Birth, it's "Talk Like Shakespeare" Day!!

The Comedy of Errors

We've not done as well as I'd hoped juggling life, fitting in co-op schoolwork and AO/HEO schoolwork this year. That's hard with four kiddos, have you tried it? I think that's why the Lord blessed us with just the four that we have. Granted, they are older students and can do much of the work on their own. And our youngest ham, is getting better at staying focused, since he has the benefit of getting to exercise his artistic side productively through our homeschool co-op.

Now that co-op is over and I personally have fewer teacher duties, our family can move on to the next Shakespeare play, which is The Comedy of Errors.

Just an update from Texas, where we are experiencing Spring Fever, but are moving forward progressively! How are you all doing?

Javamom

Birthday Dinner, including Shakespeare!

We celebrated multiple family birthdays with my inlaws and hubby's family tonight. While serving up the cake, dear daughter reminded us that it was Wm. Shakespeare's birthday, as well. He was born on this date, in 1564.


In honor of Shakespeare, I'll share one of my favorite sonnets, # 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments; love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no, it is an ever-fixèd mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his heighth be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

~Tales From Shakespeare~

Currently reading aloud to the kiddos, complete with tea and tea cakes:

Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Children's version by Charles and Mary Lamb
A.L. Burt, publisher circa 1900