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.

Wednesday, 10 August 2011

Humans and nature

Shakespeare believed that everything had its natural place in society.  When characters disobey their natural place then nature reacts and is unsettled.  This is particularly noticeable in King Lear.

Ask students to collect nature imagery and categorise it.  Use the quotes to deduct what Shakespeare is using nature to say in your play.

You could provide quote sort cards or get students to create their own quote cards.

Ask them to create a hypothesis rather like the opening three sentences of this entry and then to prove their hypothesis by using their quotes.

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