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Shakespeare & Hip-Hop

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Mercedes Ugarte's seventh grade students from Monterrey, Mexico learned the iambic pentameter rhythm and the structure of Shakespeare' s sonnets by creating hip-hop beats and rhyming to them.
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Hi! Our names are Isa and Dany. We rapped sonnet 12 by Shakespeare. This poem is about a person seeing how things die and change through time. No one can escape time, everything will become older even the most beautiful things, we are in a clock and we can't change time. Shakespeare portraits many pictures of how eventually everything will decay an…
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Our names are Marcelo and Dario aka Big Chungus and Lil' Happy Meal. We rapped sonnet 7 by William Shakespeare. In this sonnet, Shakespeare draws a simile between the rising and setting sun and youth and age. He says that as the sun rises more people admire it but as it sets it is ignored and the rising stars of the night take the attention of beco…
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Our names are Freda and Regina, we chose sonnet number 6 by Shakespeare. The sonnet we chose is about how summer is the most beautiful time of the year, and how winter is training to overcome summer and start winter. Then it also tells us how having ten children will make every everything happy because ten more faces will see the view that is summe…
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Hi, we are Diego and Teun. We rapped about sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare, this sonnet tells how he talks about his young years of leave, no-doubt and the eternal summer of youth. It also tells that the summer is too short so you do not need to lack but enjoy. We made the beat by ourselves and we used a little bit of autotune to sound better beca…
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Hi! Our names are Isa and Charu. We rapped to Sonnet 8 by William Shakespeare. In this sonnet in particular, music is being compared to love. The person or the protagonist (the one writing the poem), is writing to someone who seems to not enjoy music, despite the fact that his/her partner (the protagonist) loves him or her (probably her because Sha…
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Our names are Regina and Eva, we chose to rap to sonnet 13 by Shakespeare. The sonnet talks about love for the beauty of youth. It talks about the self identity of this youth beauty and that it is so beautiful, that it should be passed on when she dies and borrowed by someone else. It talks about heritage and how it should be passed on for others t…
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Hi, our names are Cassia and Lizzy. We rapped Sonnet 140 by Shakespeare. The poem is by a despairing lover, who is on the edge of madness by his loved one. He talks about how she says she loves him but does not, and he is driven crazy by it. He is also talking about that in his frenzy of madness, he may say mean things about her, or reveal the trut…
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We are Adelina aka "lil ade" and Mila aka "dj mila". The Shakespeare sonnet we chose was number 71. This poem talks about death and learning to accept it. As well as deal with the fact that we are all going to die someday. We have to make peace with it and it is okay. The sonnet was dedicated to his family and loved one so that they don't mourn all…
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Our names are Ana Lu and Balbina, aka AB. We rapped Sonnet number 23 written by William Shakespeare. This sonnet is about an actor that forget his lines while performing. And instead of that actor to improvise, he gets impatient and he can't control his fury. But when he sees the person he cares about all that fury turns into love. At the end this …
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Our names are Sofia and Carolina, also known as ‘lil tracks. This poem we rapped is Sonnet 62 by William Shakespeare. It is about excessive jealousy and selfishness. This poem is his response towards all the criticism he was given in his days due to these traits. He also admits it to be true, and expresses the guilt he felt, and he also admits that…
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Our names are Adrian and Guillermo, also known as Lil GIGI, and Flow. We rapped Sonnet 18, by Shakespeare. The Sonnet that we rapped is about a woman, because at the start of the poem, Shakespeare states “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”. In addition to this, the poem says “Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;” In the words that we …
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We are Paloma and Leah also known as lil’puggy and Levege. We rapped sonnet #7 by William Shakespeare. This sonnet talks about the youth and rage. This also talks about trajectory of the sun. Shakespeare also expresses loyalty, admiration and love. Shakespeare also says that as the sun rises, it receives a lot of attention and glory, and as it sets…
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