{"id":2506,"date":"2011-01-21T22:41:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T03:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2017-08-20T11:21:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T16:21:52","slug":"salad-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/2506","title":{"rendered":"Salad Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sixth-graders I&#8217;m working with are studying figurative language now, so we looked at figurative language in <a href=\"http:\/\/bartleby.com\/70\/4515.html\" target=\"_blank\">a scene<\/a> from <em>Antony and Cleopatra<\/em>. They enjoyed the &#8220;salad days&#8221; metaphor, and the exchange where Cleopatra asks her servant Mardian about what it&#8217;s like to be a eunuch.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cleo. Hast thou affections?<br \/>\nMar. Yes, gracious madam.<br \/>\nCleo. Indeed!<br \/>\nMar. Not in deed, madam; for I can do nothing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other Shakespeare teaching news, I met with the eighth-graders who are doing <em>As You Like It<\/em>, and it looks like I will be working with them after all. And I&#8217;ve also hooked up with an enthusiastic seventh-grade class that has already read <em>Hamlet<\/em>, <em>Much Ado about Nothing<\/em>, and <em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em>. It looks like I have a few online classrooms to set up.<\/p>\n<p>More to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sixth-graders I&#8217;m working with are studying figurative language now, so we looked at figurative language in a scene from Antony and Cleopatra. They enjoyed the &#8220;salad days&#8221; metaphor, and the exchange where Cleopatra asks her servant Mardian about what it&#8217;s like to be a eunuch. Cleo. Hast thou affections? Mar. Yes, gracious madam. Cleo. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,57,73,16,91,12,124,95,117,3,87,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antony-and-cleopatra","category-as-you-like-it","category-blended-learning","category-education","category-hamlet","category-humor","category-much-ado","category-poetry","category-romeo-and-juliet","category-shakespeare","category-teaching-shakespeare","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6418,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions\/6418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}