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Comparison Between The Acting Unit And Shakespeare Class

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This essay is about everything that we have learned from this semester. We had 2 different “units” this semester. This year’s semester totalled to 18 weeks. The two units I will take about will be the Acting Unit and Shakespeare Unit.
The first unit we did this year was the acting unit. We started off the year by doing a sort of class play for Fairy Tale courtroom. We then did first person stories about subjects, which we also did Uta Hagen’s 9 questions for. We then acted out the plays.
Next, we did sonnets. Sonnets are poems of 14 lines with 10 syllables per line. We did textbook work which about the dawn of theatre which is where we dove into the Shakespeare era. Shakespeare is considered one of the great early playwrights. We watched

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