ACT 2 Scene 6,7,8,9

Act Two Scene Six

1. How does Launcelot manage to tell Jessica that Lorenzo will be there that evening?
2. What does Jessica throw down to Lorenzo?
3. Why is Antonio looking for Gratiano?
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1. Lorenzo got a note from Launcelot which gave him the time and place to be.

2. Jessica throws down a casket/box

3.  Antonio was looking for Gratiano to tell him that there was no masquerade & due to the wind blowing right Bassanio is going aboard on the ship to set sail.
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Act Two Scene Seven

1. Which Casket does the Prince of Morocco think is worthy to contain Portia's portrait. Use evidence of the text to justify your answer.
2. How is Portia feeling in A2S7 -at the beginning, -while the prince is making his choice, at the end
3. What was Portia's father trying to achieve by the use of the caskets? Does this seem to be working?
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1. Prince Morocco thinks the gold one is worthy to have Portia's portrait. "He who chooses me will get what many men want.” That’s Portia! The whole world wants her. They come from the four corners of the earth to kiss this shrine and see this living, breathing saint. Princes travel across deserts and the vast wilderness of Arabia to come see the beautiful Portia. The wide ocean doesn’t prevent them from coming to see her—they travel across it as if it were a little stream." Morocco thinks Portia's photo would be in the Gold casket because Morocco thinks it would be a sin for her photo to be in a poor man's box full of lead, as to where he is wrong as it is in the lead.
2. Portia is feeling rather annoyed at the start as she doesn't want to marry the prince also because she has no choice but to marry him if he gets it right, and she's feeling relieved at the end that he got it wrong because she doesn't have to marry him, and he loses everything because of a single mistake

3. To see who is worthy of Portia, and is not really working as Portia doesn't like any of the men and his kind of annoyed
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Act Two Scene Eight

1. What double disaster had struck Shylock?
2. Where did Shylock think Lorenzo and Jessica might be
3. How did Bassanio and Antonio part?
4. What is the first suggestion of trouble for Antonio? Find a quote that tells you this.
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1. First Disaster is that his daughter ran away with a Christian, the second disaster is that she ran away with his ducats and jewels

2. Shylock thought that Lorenzo and his daughter was on Bassanios ship as he got a judge to search his ship but were too late as the ship had already set sailed. as then when they got there the duke learned that Lorenzo and his lover Jessica were together in gondola

3. They parted on a boat???

4. That a ship in Venetian has sunk while Salario hopes and prays that it's not one of Antonios ships
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Act Two Scene Nine

1. What is the purpose of the rhymes in the caskets
2. Why does the prince of Arragon discard the golden caskets? What does his interpretation of the inscription tell us about this character?
3. What is Portia's reaction to Bassanio's arrival?
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1. To make fun of the suitors

2. because he doesn't want to be like the people who only look at people on the outside and not the inside so he discarded it so he wouldn't be involved in the crude population. This tells us that he looks for personality and not just their beauty

3.  She doesn't want to know because she thinks that its one of Nerissa relatives.

Act 2 Scene 2,3,4,5 Shakespeare (English)

Act Two scene Two

1. Why does Launcelot want to leave Shylock? Give evidence from the text to support your thinking.
2. Why is Bassanio worried about taking Gratiano with him to Belmont?
3.  Launcelot and his father are very anxious to find Launcelot a new job. They both want to impress Bassanio. This leads to a. frequent interruptions.
b. Contradictions

c. Misuse of words to impress
Find  examples of each of these in the text

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1. Because Shylock treats Launcelot like mere filth and that if you poked Launcelot you could feel his ribs

2. Because Gratiano has a history of always getting drunk, and that would embarrass Bassanio if Gratiano did that in Belmont where Portia was

3. 

  b. An example of Contradictions is a line saying this
GOBBO - This is my son, sir, He's a poor boy-
LAUNCELOT - Not a poor boy, but the rich jew's servant, who wants, as my father will explain
GOBBO - He wants very much sir, as one might say, to work for-
LAUNCELOT - To put briefly, I work for the Jew, and I want, as my father will tell you-

c. Do you know the old proverb "The grace of God is enough," sir? It could be divided between you and my boss Shylock--you have "The grace of God," and he has "Enough"

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Act Two Scene Three

1. What does Jessica think of her life at home? Give evidence from the text to support your thinking.
2. Which of Bassanio's friends is Jessica planning to marry?

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1. Jessica's home life isn't that great due to her father being Shylock and by the way, he treated Launcelot, I don't think she was really given any love as shown by a text saying "I'm sorry you're leaving my father like this. It's hell in our house, and you helped cheer it up, like a f

m sorry you’re leaving my father like this. It’s hell in our house, and you helped cheer it up, like a funny devil. But goodbye.

2. Jessica's planning to marry Lerzenso a friend of Bassanio's

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Act Two Scene Four

1. How does Jessica get a message to her lover?
2. How will she be disguised for the elopement?
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1. Jessica has given a note to Launcelot to which Launcelot gave the note to Lorenzo

2. Jessica will be disguised as a man who goes around doing jobs.
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Act Two Scene Five

1. Why is Shylock uneasy about going out for the evening? Give evidence from the text to support your thinking.
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1. Shylock is uneasy about going out because he dreamt of money bags the night before as said here "Things aren't going my way right now. I know because I dreamed of money bags last night." For which in his case money bags could mean a bad thing. And another quote which results with this question where Lerzeons says something about the Christians plotting something "And they have conspired together" Which means plotting something, but not in a good way.

Shakespeare Can Do Task (English)

Vocabulary - Find the meanings of the following words: Venture, Vessel, Signior, Mortifying, Profound, Exhortation, Virtuous and Squandered

Venture - A risky or daring journey or undertaking (Course of action)

Vessel - A ship or a large boat
Signior - Somone a man of rank or gentility would use as a title equivalent to Mr
Mortifying - Causing yourself or someone great embarrassment or shame
Profound - Showing a great understanding of something
Exhortation - An address or communication emphatically urging someone to do something
Virtuous -  Having or showing high moral standards (Basically being all mighty)
Squandered - Waste (Something, especially money or time) in a reckless or foolish manner

The taming of the Shrew (No Topic)

Its week 7 and its Monday today period 3 a Shakespeare show was put on for us called The taming of the Shrew, There were 3 people involved for the play all three girls, the play was located in 1616, where there was this girl who was named Kate who was violent ETC

and Kates sister Bianca who was a girl who most boys all loved, but Kate had to get married first before Bianca was then allowed to get married.

There was a man who was rich but ran out of money and needed a wife to pay for his Bills so one of his friends hooked him up with Kate sooner later getting married.

And Slowly turning the Shrew Kate into an obedient wife.

Slowly then leading to Bianca getting married.

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Before they did the show they showed us 2 flags one was white which represented Comedy and a back flag which represented for tragedy.
After the show, they asked us what we thought the story was based on Tragedy or Comedy
and told us like a backstory to the play

the hidden message was about domestic abuse ETC

In my opinion, the show was really good and showed what our world was like in the past.