Shakespeare & Hip-Hop

Shakespeare & Hip-Hop

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.

  1. 03/07/2019

    Sonnet 12, feat. Henry and Oscar

    Our names are Henry and Oscar, also known as Juanpack.  We rapped sonnet number 12.

    1 min

  2. 03/05/2019

    Romeo and Juliet Prologue feat. Isabella and Paloma

    Paloma and Isabella aka Lil Paisa.  We rapped to Shakespeare's famous sonnet The First Sonnet in Romeo and Juliet: Prologue to Act I.  It means about how strong love is. It tells what people are willing to do from love. For example, even killing themselves.

    1 min

  3. 03/05/2019

    Sonnet 25 feat. Natalia and Lore

    Hi, we are Natalia and Lore. We decided to rap sonnet 25.  This sonnet is about victory and winning. It describes how a person’s victory rises above their idols and wins fortunes. He talks about how the pride and glory a person carries will remain with them until death and how the honor and glory shall never disappear.

    2 min

  4. 03/05/2019

    Sonnet 18 feat. Sofi and Isa

    Our names are Sofia and Isa, we chose to rap sonnet 18 from Shakespeare. It is focused on the loveliness of a friend or lover. The speaker starts asking as question comparing them to a summer's day. Then he introduces the pros and cons of the weather, from an idyllic English summer's day to a dimmed sun and rough winds day.

    1 min

  5. 03/05/2019

    Sonnet 6 feat. Regina and Freda

    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 summer.

    1 min

  6. 03/05/2019

    Sonnet 59 feat. Mariel and Andrea

    Hi we are Mariel and Andrea and rapped sonnet 59 by William Shakespeare. This sonnet is about the lover of Shakespeare and how much he loves his lover, he explained that no one will ever write fully about herself and only he could do it.

    1 min

  7. 03/05/2019

    Sonnet 102 feat. Majo and Isa

    Hello our names are Majo and Isa.  We rapped sonnet 102 by William Shakespeare.  This sonnet is about love and how his love increases through time, it starts at spring and goes all the way to summer and farther.  He talks about how he reacts and what he feels.  It also gives various definitions of what love can be.

    1 min

  8. 03/04/2019

    Sonnet 13 feat. Regina and Eva

    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 to be able to experience what you have experienced with it. It also warns the youth, that he/she will lose beauty if he doesn't revitalize himself.

    1 min
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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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