Chapter+1-7+Questions

Directions
- Each week Mrs. Gast will post guide questions or discussion questions for __The Shakespeare Stealer__. Click on the "Discussion Tab" to respond to the discussion questions. While on the "Discussion Tab" you can view your classmates responses as well as comments that Mrs. Gast has left for you. You must respond to the guide questions and also read and respond to one of your classmates postings as well.

"Featuring sympathetic characters, an intriguing setting, and dark forces creating conflicts within Widge and around him, this **historical novel** makes an exciting introduction to the period and to Shakespearean theater." //Booklist
 * Chapters 1 - 7**

Overall objective: SWBAT read THE SHAKESPEARE STEALER and identify details that portray the setting, time period, daily life, and characteristics of Elizabethen England in order to gain knowledge about the life and times of William Shakespeare.//

Respond to four.**
 * Directions: Explain the significance of the following pieces of information related to the above objective.

EX: "All I owned was the small dagger that I used for eating." Ex. Response://During this time period many people probably did not use the eating utensils that we have today - especially those of the lower class.//

1. "the men of London dressed in splendid clothes, all ornamented and embroidered..."

2. "Prentices were too lowly to even deserve mention."

3. "London had an enormous appetite for goods of every kind."

4. "I dropped to the cobblestones and hurried after."

5. "We followed a narrow, unpaved street downhill to the Thames, and I was suddenly presented with a whole different aspect of the city."

6. "A gatherer took my penny and I shuffled on."

7. "the babble scarcely diminished/the audience might throw comments of their own."

8. Why were women forbidden by law to act upon the stage?