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.

Monday, 22 August 2011

Who do you think you are?

This can be done to trace Shakespeare's family history e.g. Miss Shakespeare is tracing her family history and Shakespeare is her 4x great grandfather.  This is a biographical type of activity.

Alternatively do a who do you think you are style presentation for one or more of the characters in the play that is being studied.  What sort of records might exist?  How might history see events and how much of the events would actually be interpreted correctly?  Again this is for the younger students.

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