Elizabethan Clothing Research Grid

Here is the research grid that the grade 6 class used, under the direction of Janet Taylor, to learn about Elizabethan clothing.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,
Shall win my love; and so I take my leave,
In resolution as I swore before.

Hortensio, Taming Of The Shrew, Act IV, Scene II

Erin, Claire and Monique

Shakespeare Said...

As many of you might know, the ELO students who were meeting here at G.V. made and decorated a book called "Shakespeare Said...". And now, since it's bound and dried, we can post pictures!

So above is the cover, the ink and vines are done (like everything else) by ELO students

Below are random pages from the book.

Save base authority from others' books

These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights

That give a name to every fixed star

Have no more profit of their shining nights

Than those that walk and wot not what they are.

Too much to know is to know nought but fame;

And every godfather can give a name.

Biron, Love's Labour's Lost, Act I, Scene I

Erin

Costume Design By Grade 6

The Grade 6 Class have been working on Elizabethan costumes. They researched costumes and now they are creating their very own on sewing machines.

They also did research on upper and lower class clothing. They drew and coloured there pieces and now we're here to blog-i-fy them!

...Yes, there are a lot of them.

Ta-da! And that's what the grade 6 class has been doing for the last couple weeks!

Doubt not
The commoners, for whom we stand, but they
Upon their ancient malice will forget
With the least cause these his new honours, which
That he will give them make I as little question
As he is proud to do't. 

Sicinius Velutus, Coriolanus, Act II, Scene I

Erin

Our Last ELO Class

Last friday we had our last ELO class when local book-binder Cathryn Miller came and helped us make our pages into "Shakespeare Said". So today we're going to post our pictures.

Above: the paper students used to learn how to bind books.

Below: Cathryn helping some boys with their work.

 Above: A teacher helping one of her students make a mini-book.

Below: Some students stitching their papers together.

 

Book Binding Instructions By Cathryn Miller 

Finds tongues in trees,

Books in the running brooks, 


Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 


I would not change it.

Duke, As You Like It, Act II, Scene I

Drama Class!

Here at Georges Vanier, every student takes part in drama class once a week with Ms. Deacon. Today Mark von Eschen from Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan came for a visit. He helped us learn the prologue from Romeo and Juliet and taught us to project our voices and articulate our words so "even the deaf old lady in the back can hear."

Above we have half of the Gr. 8 class (team Montague) and below the other half 

(team Capulet- Claire and I- go team!) as Mark instructs us.

We also have the video from when CTV came: 

CTV Video  

Our part is about half way through.

"Two households, both alike in dignity,

In fair Verona, where way lay our scene,

From ancient grudge,  break to new mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;

Whose misadventured piteous overthrows

Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,

And the continuance of their parents' rage, 

Which, but their children's end, not could remove,

Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;

The which if you with patient ears attend,

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend."

Prologue, Romeo and Juliet

Claire and Erin

CTV

Today a reporter and some cameramen from CTV Saskatoon came to tape our students as they painted our newest cut-out: Antony and Cleopatra. They also got some shots of students in the art room.

Above- A student doing an interview.

Below- The CTV reporter in the middle of our art room 

Above- a cameraman talking to some students about our project with Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan.

Below- Some students working on Antony and Cleopatra.

 

Erin

Note: The February break will be starting on Monday, February 18 (Family Day) and will go all week so there won't be any blog for that time.