This blog has come about because of a chance comment by one of my students. He said that he wished that there was somewhere he could go for ideas on how to teach Shakespeare to his class. I'm going to attempt one idea each day.

Friday, 20 May 2011

Magazine article.

Identify a theme that runs through the Shakespeare play that your students are studying.  Ask them to write a magazine article on that particular theme that would be of use to one of the characters in the play if they were to read the article e.g. an article entitled 'Guilt, how to spot and manage it' would probably be a useful article for Lady Macbeth to read or 'What role does fate play in your life' would probably be an interesting article for Juliet.

More able students will be able to discuss the theme and include appropriate quotes from the text as well as writing in the style of a magazine article. 

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