Paraphrase Put it in your own words Steps

Paraphrase * • Put it in your own words! • Steps – – Reword Rearrange Realize Recheck

Steps to paraphrasing* • Reword - replace words and phrases with synonyms whenever you can. • Rearrange - rearrange words within sentences to make new sentences. You can even rearrange the ideas presented within the paragraph. • Realize that some words and phrases cannot be changed - names, dates, titles etc. cannot be replaced, but you can present them differently in your paraphrase. • Recheck - make sure that your paraphrase conveys the same meaning as the original text.

Let’s try one together When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon my self and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,

Paraphrased I am shameful because I am unlucky and not wealthy according to other people I cry alone because I am different And heaven cannot hear my hysterical cries I look at myself and hate my life I wish that I was more hopeful I want to be like him, he who has a lot of friends and is popular

Read the worksheet • Look at the worksheet attached on the website • Read the first 11 lines • Highlight/mark the words that you do not understand • Look at the context clues to change those words • Translate the lines into modern day English

Think about • What is going on in this scene? What are the characters doing? • Who are these people? • Where are these people? • What time of the day is it? Are they inside or outside? • Does someone leave at the end of the scene? • What emotions are presented in this scene? Happy? Sad? Suspenseful?