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.

Thursday, 18 August 2011

Positives and negatives

Role of women.

Ask students to identify 10 positive things about the way in which Shakespeare's characters perceive women and 10 negative things about the way in which Shakespeare's characters perceive women.

This is a useful warm up exercise to check understanding and as a preliminary activity activating prior knowledge for an essay writing assignment e.g. Is Lady Macbeth a role model?  Or the female characters in Macbeth are all monsters or mothers. Discuss.

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