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, 11 August 2011

Shakespeare said it first.

Provide students with other Shakespearean sayings. 

They could then:

Find out what it means, which play it comes from and the context in which it was first used.

or

Explain  what it means.  Create a class dictionary of Shakespeare's language in modern English.

or

Use the quote to write a story.  Mind mapping first for ideas.  Then work on exposition, complication, climax and resolution.

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