Apostrophes

The boys' hats went in the air.
The children's teacher took the pupil's book.
The soldiers' general gave him a medal for his bravery.

Spelling test

Carriage-  A four-wheeled passenger vehicle pulled by two or more horses.

How do you use carriage in a sentence?

Inferior-  A person lower than another in status or ability.

However, the vastly inferior years barely showed up on the field.

Secretary- A person employed by an individual or in an office to assist with correspondence, keep records, make appointments, and carry out similar.

The active membership will appoint a secretary who will maintain a register of all members.

Committee-  A group of people appointed for a specific function, typically consisting of members of a larger group.

It would be managed by a steering committee of city council, county council and representatives of local groups.

Shakespeare research

§  No one knows the actual birthday of Shakespeare!

§  Anne Hathaway was eight years older than Shakespeare and three months pregnant when
they got married!

§  Many Shakespeare life facts are unknown - these are referred to as the Lost Years

§  Shakespeare's Father, John was a money lender! He was accused in the Exchequer Court
of Usury for lending money at the inflated rate of 20% and 25% Interest!

§  William Arden, a relative of Shakespeare's mother Mary Arden, was arrested for plotting
against Queen Elizabeth I, imprisoned in the Tower of London and executed!

§  Shakespeare and his company built TWO Globe Theatres!

§  Shakespeare never published any of his plays!

§  Shakespeare and the Globe Actors were implicated in the Essex Rebellion of 1601!

§  Many eminent Authors and Politicians do not believe that Shakespeare wrote his plays...

§  Shakespeare's family were all illiterate!

§  Shakespeare's actual birthday is unknown but April 23rd has been generally used - the same day as St. George's Day, the Patron Saint of England - stranger still his actual date of death is also unknown and this has also been given April 23rd! Fact!

§  William's father, John Shakespeare was the Mayor of Stratford

§  There are rumours that Shakespeare left Stratford-upon-Avon to avoid prosecution for poaching a deer!

§  Shakespeare is rumoured to be the father of an illegitimate son - William Davenant!

§  We do not really know what Shakespeare looked like! Not one portrait was painted of Shakespeare whilst he was still alive!

§  The majority of his plays were only published seven years after his death!

§  Scandalous Facts! Shakespeare's daughter, Judith married a man called Thomas Quiney - but failed to get a special license to marry and, on March 12th 1616, Judith and Thomas Quiney were both excommunicated!

§  More scandalous Shakespeare Family Facts! It transpired that Thomas Quiney had made another girl pregnant and was prosecuted for 'carnal copulation'

§  The only mention that Shakespeare specifically makes of his wife in his Last Will and testament was to leave her his "second best bed"

§  Shakespeare's grandchildren all died - he had no descendents.

Hamlet

Act 1 scene 1
Barnardo and Franciso are looking for the ghost of the just deceased King Fortinbras. Horatio then comes and relieves Franciso from his duty. Horatio does not believe that this ghost excists so he wanted to come on watch himself. Then the Ghost enters and Horatio questions him but he offends him so the ghost leaves. Moments later the ghost enters again and spreads his arms and walks away because Marcellus and Horatio threatens it. It was about to say something but a rooster crowed so it didn't say nothing. They both exit.

5 examples that were made by William Shakespeare;

• As cold as any stone;
• Beware the ides of March;
• Come that come may;
• Fair play;and
• Lay it on with a trowel .

Mr Howard am I just supposed to write about the story or is there another task. Please reply.

To Be Or Not To Be

 I am John Martin an this is my story on how I almost sleighed the mighty beast of Arachnia. This is how my story began and how it ended dramatically.

Travelling at tremendous pace, my ship the Venturour sailed to meet the queen and find out our task. The whole ship new it was going to be our hardest task of all however if we completed this task we would have all the riches and live out the rest of our lives freely. This was set to be our most important voyaged of our lives.

Finally reaching the mighty city of London, I entered the queen’s chambers and my ears were torn as I found out our task was to slay the beast of arachnia... Hundreds have tried and hundreds had failed this was going to be a risky task that I could not promise my crew we were going to succeed.

Setting of to our death or our wildest richest I had not told my crew the treacherous task that stood before us. It will take us three days to get to Arachnia then one day walking on the island.

Waves attacked and tried to set us of course almost like they wanted to save us, from what? Suddenly I heard an almighty screech and felt the fifty tonne ship rock one side to another. Jumping high in the sky was what seemed a beautiful mermaid that could not harm anyone or anything but my eyes deceived me as it flew at one of my crew man an took him into the sea then more and more came dragging more and more of my men into sea. Picking up the guns we fought back, shooting the mermaids as they flew in mid air. More and more mermaids came it was almost like when you shot one ten more came. Then I thought to myself that was it don’t kill the mermaids just injure the beasts. Finally we cleared the deck of the injured mermaids but at great expense as twelve men were dead and three were injured.

On the second day of our adventure the sea was quiet and two of our injured men died of lack of blood in these boiling hot conditions. This was the day I was going to tell them where we were going and what we were doing here... Most of the men’s mouths dropped some started crying some just stood still.

On the third and final day on the ship most of the men just leaned over the edge of the ship and threw up or stared at the sea gormlessly they all looked petrified like there was no fight left like it was doomsday.

On the fourth day we set off walking on the island and straight away got attacked by the beast of Arachnias little minions that we picked off like flies. Our journey was complete but our task was still on the go.

Entering the cave of arachnia we put our torches on and still could barely see anything then out of the dark the beast attacked us and took four of my men into the shadows. Then the second attack came and I pierced my sword into the beast as an almighty scream rocked the whole cave. We had hurt it and now we had to kill it. Then the beast killed another six of my men. Only five of us were left stood standing, we struck again and a screech came from the beast again then out of knows where it pierced threw all my men and killed them all in one strike I was the only one standing. Then the beast knocked me down and I lay as I watched the beast’s huge claw come down and finished me. It was just not to be!