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.

Saturday, 27 August 2011

All that shines

Ask students to look for imagery that glitters- jewels, mirrors, stars and moons etc.

What is Shakespeare describing?

Are there contrasts?
How do you feel about the way Shakespeare describes characters/events using glistening things?
How effective is the imagery?

Bring in a shiny object - Ask students to describe it- create an adjective ball on the whiteboard.

Now give them a series of other objects, emotions, people- ask students to choose three of the adjectives that would also describe the thing the new object/emotion/person effectively.  Write a brief description using those images. 

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