Lesson 71

 We started today's class by looking at a series of songs - we used them as a jumping-off point for a conversation about why this title captures the imagination:

• Pointer Sisters
• The Judds
• Taylor 

 We then talked about everything students think they know about the play - and contrasted it with this Insta post:

We looked at the towers of San Gimignano, in Tuscany - we talked about their origins, and the origin of the term vendetta.

We talked about the evolution of English - and that Shakespeare's Early Modern English is intelligible...that intonation and context can offer us a lot (and that insults were accessible last class, despite the challenge of the language itself).

We discussed what iambic pentameter is, and students learned the term aside as it pertains to plays.

We read only read as far as I.i.62