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, 20 August 2011

An inspector calls.

Many of Shakespeare's plays include a crime of some description - in some cases murder but in others missing people, theft, impersonation etc.

What is the crime in the play that your students are studying?

Ask students (again this is for younger ones) to imagine that they are police officers investigating the crime.  Their task is to record the crime and to identify the different suspects as well as the evidence that they have - ideally they should not know the outcome of the play- where does the evidence point.  What do they think that the resolution will be.

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