Shakespeare introduction! A fully differentiated and resourced lesson that introduces students to William Shakespeare’s, the world he lived in and explores the genres he wrote in as well. A great way to introduce any unit of work on Shakespeare that covers context but also specific elements of different genres of Shakespeare’s plays.
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This is an extremely dense 12 page booklet with easily an entire scheme of work. This has been created to give year 7 an introduction to Shakespeare: to understand his life, works, times, theatre and to grasp how a script works. There are two pages which focus on Shakespeare’s villains (Don John and Iago) but in reality this is to simply expose students to Shakespeare’s life and characters rather than to complete in depth analysis of a plot and character. Although this was created with year 7 in mind it would fill a gap at any level of Key Stage 3 if students’ knowledge of Elizabethan England is lacking.
Both the editable Word document and .pdf are provided - please note the word document may not appear like the booklet pdf because of font use and formatting.
This booklet is also available as part of a Shakespeare bundle with two other KS3 booklets covering Shakespeare heroes and the idea of tragic heroes and Shakespeare’s relationships.
The booklet is as follows:
1 - front cover and basic dramatic terminology glossary
2 - William Shakespeare information with space to create a fact file
3 - Shakespeare’s works - basic information, followed by a task to understand the difference between comedies, tragedies and histories then sorting key plays into each type
4+5 - a double page spread with a timeline across Elizabethan and Jacobean England. At the top students can create a timeline of historical events and then plot Shakespeare’s life underneath (perhaps using page 2)
6 - Elizabethan entertainment - 4 boxes for students to complete information about bear baiting, bull baiting, cock fighting and the theatre - I have attached the factfile made to accompany this lesson.
7- The Globe Theatre - A label the Globe picture followed by a gap fill about its history (in image)
8- Understanding a script - the first scene of Macbeth is used to explain the layout of a script, followed by a gap underneath for students to make their own mini script using a similar layout and features.
9- Stage directions- a list of common Shakespeare stage directions with definitions for students to match followed by some complex stage directions to "translate"
10 - An explanation of the character and his motives, an extract from the play (1.3) and a series of questions which track students through the extract.
11 - An explanation of the character and his motives,an extract from 1.1 alongside a modern translation followed by a series of questions.
12- a common words glossary where students should independently record new words learnt.
English (and drama) Shakespeare quiz and answers for KS3 or KS4 Students. Versatile editable resource for either an Online virtual lesson or a more traditional classroom based lesson. The topic of the quiz is Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet Quiz
This quiz includes a wide variety of different rounds including: matching rounds, photo rounds, linking rounds , number round, multiple choice round , designing round, word search, anagrams and much more…
Contents of Quiz
☞ 1 x Professionally Designed PowerPoint Quiz ( Containing 10 Different Rounds and over 50+ Questions)
☞1 x Set of certificates for winning students (Gold, Silver and Bronze)
☞ 1 x Full set of Answers (Animated at the end of the Quiz)
☞ 1 x Student Answer Sheets they can fill in during the quiz
☞ 1 x FULLY DIGITAL STUDENT ANSWER SHEET
☞ Quiz can be done as an individual task or in small teams.
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Shakespeare play Macbeth - English (and drama) Shakespeare quiz and answers for KS3 or KS4 Students. Versatile editable resource for either an Online virtual lesson or a more traditional classroom based lesson. The topic of the quiz is the Shakespeare play Macbeth
This Shakespeare play Macbeth quiz includes a wide variety of different rounds including: matching rounds, photo rounds, linking rounds , number round, multiple choice round , designing round, word search, anagrams and much more…
Contents of Shakespeare play Macbeth Quiz
☞ 1 x Professionally Designed PowerPoint Quiz ( Containing 10 Different Rounds and over 50+ Questions)
☞1 x Set of certificates for winning students (Gold, Silver and Bronze)
☞ 1 x Full set of Answers (Animated at the end of the Quiz)
☞ 1 x Student Answer Sheets they can fill in during the quiz
☞ 1 x FULLY DIGITAL STUDENT ANSWER SHEET
☞ Quiz can be done as an individual task or in small teams.
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**Ideal for KS3 Shakespeare units/ introductions to Shakespeare at KS4. Highly challenging and fully resourced! Part of a complete introduction unit (bundle available). **
LO: To develop an understanding of the conventions of Shakespearean comedy.
Literacy ‘Do Now’ task
Oracy task- Talking Point class debate
Conventions of the comedy genre
Comparing/ contrasting theatre production posters
Analysis of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (extract)
Exploring comedy settings
Descriptive writing task
Mini plenaries
A revision resource for GCSE students to help them memorise key quotations from Macbeth.
A 5 page document, colour-coded according to character.
Accompanying brief analysis of each quotation: stylistic features, key themes, similar scenes.
Easily adaptable for differentiation.
A class assembly (15-20 minutes) suitable for Years 5-6 on the subject of Shakespeare. Shakespeare himself appears, speaking only in lines from his plays, having been brought from Tudor times using a time machine created in a science lesson! The assembly teaches interesting facts about Shakespeare’s life and
ends with the message that perseverance is the key to achieving anything. Includes lyrics to a Shakespeare song sung to the theme tune of The Addams Family!
There is scope for pupils to create their own mini-sketches if wanted.
Enough speaking parts for a class of 30+, or can easily be adapted for smaller numbers.
English and Drama Shakespeare quiz and answers for KS4 and KS3 Students. This is a versatile and fully editable resource for either an Online virtual lesson or a more traditional classroom based lesson. This quiz is all about everything Shakespeare
This quiz includes a wide variety of different rounds including: matching rounds, photo rounds, linking rounds , number round, multiple choice round , designing round, word search, anagrams and much more…
Contents of Quiz
☞ 1 x Professionally Designed PowerPoint Quiz ( Containing 10 Different Rounds and over 50+ Questions)
☞1 x Set of certificates for winning students (Gold, Silver and Bronze)
☞ 1 x Full set of Answers (Animated at the end of the Quiz)
☞ 1 x Student Answer Sheets they can fill in during the quiz
☞ 1 x FULLY DIGITAL STUDENT ANSWER SHEET
☞ Quiz can be done as an individual task or in small teams.
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Highly challenging and fully resourced 5 lesson introductory unit to Shakespeare. All lessons contain 18-20 PowerPoint slides with a variety of tasks, formative assessment opportunities, analysis of key play extracts, scaffolding and modelling.
Topic 1- Context and introduction
Topic 2- Comedies (AMND)
Topic 3- Tragedies (King Lear)
Topic 4- Histories (Richard III)
Topic 5- Shakespeare’s Leading Ladies (Lady Macbeth)
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Othello English and Drama Shakespeare quiz and answers for KS4 and KS3 Students. This is a versatile and fully editable resource for either an Online virtual lesson or a more traditional classroom based lesson. This quiz is all about the Shakespeare play Othello
This quiz includes a wide variety of different rounds including: matching rounds, photo rounds, linking rounds , number round, multiple choice round , designing round, word search, anagrams and much more…
Contents of Othello Quiz
☞ 1 x Professionally Designed PowerPoint Quiz ( Containing 10 Different Rounds and over 50+ Questions)
☞1 x Set of certificates for winning students (Gold, Silver and Bronze)
☞ 1 x Full set of Answers (Animated at the end of the Quiz)
☞ 1 x Student Answer Sheets they can fill in during the quiz
☞ 1 x FULLY DIGITAL STUDENT ANSWER SHEET
☞ Quiz can be done as an individual task or in small teams.
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A lesson exploring ideas about appearance, reality and the presentation of
women in Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 130’.
Prompts discussion about ‘reality’ and ‘appearence’, weaving in ideas about social media.
Students work individually to interpret different given lines in the poem (worksheet including challenge questions), and then class collaboratively discuss, explore and feedback their interpretations.
Lesson also includes a creative writing task.
This 11 page workbook introduces your students to the life and times of Shakespeare.
It is designed to be interactive and requires students to research much of the information themselves. It includes a template to create Shakespeare’s biography in the form of a resume, fun facts on life in Elizabethan England, some background on the Globe, Shakespearean insults to be hurled at one another, a flag creating activity, well- known phrases we use today which were coined by Shakespeare and a research project on life at that time.
The resource includes a teacher’s copy which provides more background information and comprehensive suggested answers to questions so you don’t have to dig around for answers!
It is suitable for secondary students who are studying their first Shakespeare.
An assembly to celebrate the birthday of William Shakespeare in April. This highly dynamic presentation has an assembly plus a range of ideas and resources for follow-up form time activities.
This beautifully-designed and editable 22-slide Powerpoint presentation creatively presents information on this event and can be showcased to any age group and includes specific pages for primary or secondary students. It includes images, dynamic transitions, informative text, video and links for extension work in form time – including extra video and classroom activities.
Slide 1: Who was William Shakespeare?
Slide 2: Why does William Shakespeare matter?
Slide 3-7: How does Shakespeare influence our modern culture? Includes video
Slide 8: Final thought
Slide 9: Follow Up Form Time activities
Slide 10: Shakespeare insult generator
Slide 11: Writing sonnet activity – with Marcus Rashford example
Slide 12: Acting a short Shakespeare scene
Slide 13: Shakespeare word search
Slide 14: Shakespeare colouring activity
Slide 15: Shakespeare translator activity
Slide 16: Shakespeare scavenger hunt
Slides 17-22: William Shakespeare form-time quiz – with answers
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Merchant of Venice Escape Room Knowledge Escape Room Quiz - End of term fun for the whole class. No printing required! Just project the Powerpoint and off you go. Built in timers, Video clips and answer reveals after every slide. This is an educational fun immersive ‘Bank Heist themed Escape room’ experience.
Have the students compete individually, in teams or as a whole class the choice is yours! This resource is a great team-building activity to keep your students engaged during the last few days (or week) leading up to the end of term.
There are seven different challenging puzzles and you have the choice of setting the timer at easy, medium or high difficult level for each escape. Students will complete a variety of tasks using different skills including: problem-solving, critical thinking, reading comprehension, literacy challenges and some clever deduction.
The puzzles, bonus questions and challenges are a fun way to assess a topic or subject area. This resource covers a variety of different elements including: vocabulary, key terms. key themes, general subject knowledge, literacy and much more…
Merchant of Venice Escape Room is fully editable and takes less than 1 Minute to set up.
Merchant of Venice Bank Heist Escape Room Contents
☞ Interactive 26 slide Powerpoint Escape Room Challenge
☞ Optional Escape Certificates
☞ Optional Team Sheet (Print it or use scrap paper instead)
Common FAQ’s
★Group sizes: 1-30 students per team - (Participants up to 180)
★Time: Approximately 50-60 minutes (Provide hints along the way if time is a factor!)
★Materials: Aside from Powerpoint - all students need is a pen / pencil.
How to run this escape challenge
This escape room can be done without any printing we have however still included a team sheet (Slide 2) should you wish to use it, if not plain paper will more than suffice.
The escape room is story driven by a YouTube video which is split into 9 sections.
Introduction - Puzzle 1 – Puzzle 2 - Puzzle 3 – Puzzle 4 – Puzzle 5 – Puzzle 6 – Puzzle 7 - Success
At various points you will be instructed to pause the video at these points you can go to the next slide in the presentation.
Each video section (excluding Introduction and Success) will be followed by a puzzle.
Every puzzle has three built in timers in the lower right hand corner to put the teams on a time limit of your choice if you so wish.
Once the timer has expired or everyone has completed the puzzle teams can check their answers on the next slide using the CLICK TO REVEAL boxes.
Once all answers for the current puzzle have been revealed move on to the next video section and subsequent puzzle until all 7 puzzles have been completed and everyone has escaped successfully
(Optional) Give out winning certificates to the highest scorers.
Students create a leaflet about Shakespeare using the guidance and questions on the worksheet. It usually takes pupils between 2-3 lessons to complete. It also makes a straightforward and convenient cover lesson.
N.B. Pupils will need access to the internet for their research or, alternatively, you could print off the research fact sheets for them (website on the worksheet)
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Shakespeare mini bundle - Tes Award Nominated, 4 hours worth of lessons, perfect for introducing William Shakespeare to both KS3 and KS4 classes. A bundle of very highly rated lessons and revision sessions.
Includes:
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Writing your own comedy
Writing your own tragedy
The Globe Theatre and historical context
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A MINI UNIT OF 5 LESSONS, BASED AROUND THE SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE.
WRITTEN FOR UPPER KS2 (YEAR 6 ) BUT FULLY DIFFERENTIATED, SO EASILY ADAPTED.
EACH LESSON INCLUDES A DETAILED PPT AND ALL RESOURCES.
This resource is the first lesson in a series of lessons on Shakespeare, primarily this topic leads into a 3 week unit on Macbeth. It is a taster of our resources and is offered for free. I have included the planning for the first week so you can see where the topic is going.
We aim to release the rest of the resource in the next few weeks. I would love some feedback on this one though, and will happily take suggestions for the remaining unit.
L1: Who was Shakespeare?
Romeo and Juliet
FREE - Lesson Two:
Bundle Sow: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/romeo-and-juliet-12908632
This SoW is designed in detail and is both differentiated and engaging, and allows you to move pupils through content efficiently.
Made to the highest standard and constructed using current research, both dual coding and retrieval practices are at the heart of this unit. A colour scheme also runs throughout to ease both your delivery and students comprehension.
SoW: Can the World Ever Become Fully Developed?
L1: Who was Shakespeare?
L2: How is Romeo and Juliet Set Up By the Prologue?
L3: Why is Act 1 Scene 1 Significant?
L4: How Does Romeo’s Emotions Evolve Upon Meeting Juliet?
L5: Why Does the Capulet Party Advance the Story?
L6: How Do Romeo and Juliet Display Their Attraction to Each Other?
L7: How Romeo and Juliet Present Themselves to Each in the Balcony Scene?
L8: What is the Significance of Friar Laurence?
L9: Why is the Nurse Included in Romeo and Juliet?
L10: How Do Mercutio and Tybalt Change the Direction of the Story?
L11: How Does the Story Develop After Tybalt’s Murder?
L12: How Does the Presence of Paris Complicate the Story?
L13: What are the Strengths and Weaknesses of Fairer Lawrence’s Plan?
L14: How does Friar Lawrence’s Plan Start to Go Wrong?
L15: How does this Story of Romeo and Juliet End?
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