Final Project Source Summary 1 and 2:  Shakespeare

 

Savino, Jennifer Ann. "The Shakespeare In All Of Us: A Monumental, Multitudinous, Premeditated Approach To Vocabulary Instruction." Journal Of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 54.6 (2011): 445-453. Academic Search Complete. Web. 26 Apr. 2015.

 

In her article Savino tells us that words empower and enable us to speak, read, and write effectively.  She states that like Shakespeare we can all take apart and reunite words to invent our own words.  We can all become wordsmiths!  Shakespeare coined together words like: monumental, multitudinous, and premediated.  Savino’s article is excellent for teachers since she gives us different activities for teacher of K-12 to put together for their students in order to enhance their vocabulary and their passion for words.  Students acquire about 3,000 words per year and by 8^th grade they have learned about 25,000 words.  Activities like:  Word Log, to keep a journal of all words that have some kind of impact on them; Vocabulary Theater, a game like charades using words; Picture It!, where students represent words with pictures; Word Inventions, where students combine words to invent their own word and many other games/activities to help students.  Savino states that the “[d]evelopment of thinking skills through appropriate vocabulary instruction can make students scrupulous word analysts, wordsmiths, and language aficionado.” (446)

 

Interesting Facts:  17 Words Shakespeare Invented

https://youtu.be/tcZp30snb5A

 

This YouTube video gives us 17 words Shakespeare invented and it also gives us the name of the comedy, tragedy, etc., it comes from along with the Part, Act, and Scene number.  The words circumstantial, puke, and bedazzled come from As You Like It.  The words champion and assassination come from Macbeth.  The words swagger and eyeball come from A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  The word laughable comes from The Merchant of Venice.  The word accused comes from The Tragedy of King Richard the Second.  The word bloodstain comes from Titus Andronicus.  The word cold-blooded comes from King John.  The words torture, Olympian, and worthless come from Henry VI.  The word fashionable comes from Troilus and Cressida.  The word arch-villain comes from Timon of Athens.  And the word frugal comes from The Merry Wives of Windsor.