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Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet Act V
For Act I For Act II For Act III For Act IV Romeo and Juliet Act V, Scenes I-III Watch a Stage Production of Act V, Scenes I-III The children completed watching Romeo and Juliet on a road trip with their father on the Saturday. Readers’ Theater As another means of drilling the story deep……
Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliette Act IV
Romeo and Juliet Act IV, Scenes I-V Watch a Stage Production of Act IV, Scenes I-V (25 mins) Readers Theater (30 mins) As another means of drilling the story deep into the children we carried out a reader’s theater performance of Act IV ( we did this during our catch up time on Friday). This……
Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet Act III
For Day 1 see here For Day 2 see here We did things back to front today as Lorna was at the fracture clinic in the morning, AND I had the two littles. I decided to do project time in the morning with a complete run through of their version of Midsummer. If nothing……
Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet Act II
For Day 1 see here Romeo and Juliet Act II, Scenes I-VI Watch a Stage Production of Act II, Scenes I-VI (40 mins) We watched Act II from the Shakespeare’s Globe production of Romeo and Juliet: Readers’ Theater (30 mins) As another means of drilling the story deep into the children we carried out a……
Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet – Act I
Our first Shakespeare Club week was a huge success, so we were all looking forward to this week, assuming it would be equally fab. Unfortunately it really wasn’t. I think this was due to many different reasons: All five children and their mothers (ie me and Lorna) were exhausted from the week before. Honestly, I……
Shakespeare: Midsummer Night’s Dream – Day 5
Midsummer Night’s Dream Day 1 Midsummer Night’s Dream Day 2 Midsummer Night’s Dream Day 3 Midsummer Night’s Dream Day 4 Shakespeare Biographical Work (10 mins) Read out-loud Act I, scene 5: Hyperbole, Oxymoron and Made Up Words from the following Shakespeare book: Midsummer Night’s Dream Act IV, Scene I-II (80 mins) We listened to the following BBC3 production……
Shakespeare: Midsummer Night’s Dream – Day 4
Midsummer Night’s Dream Day 1 Midsummer Night’s Dream Day 2 Midsummer Night’s Dream Day 3 Shakespeare Biographical Work (10 mins) Read out-loud Act I, scene 4: Shakespeare Attends School from the following Shakespeare book: Midsummer Night’s Dream Act IV, Scene I-II (50 mins) Read and Listen to Act IV (about 25 mins) We listened to the……
Shakespeare: Midsummer Night’s Dream – Day 3
Midsummer Night’s Dream Day 1 Midsummer Night’s Dream Day 2 Shakespeare Biographical Work (10 mins) Read out-loud Act I, scene 3: John Shakespeare Takes his Son to His First Play from the following Shakespeare book: Midsummer Night’s Dream Act III, Scene I-III (80 mins) Yesterday we had forgone the audio and just watched the video,……
Shakespeare: Midsummer Night’s Dream – Day 2
For Day 1 see here Shakespeare Biographical Work (10 mins) Read out-loud Act 1, scene 2: John Shakespeare supports his Growing Family from the following Shakespeare book: Language study Iambic pentameter (20 mins) Iambic pentameter is something I remember struggling to get my head round as a teen yet as an adult it seems so……
Shakespeare: Midsummer Night’s Dream – Day 1
Pre study The children read Midsummer Night’s Dream from the following books to familiarise themselves with the story: I also bought this beautiful book. The pictures are mesmerising and the story well told. It was really important that the children completely understood the story of this play because their project would be based on Midsummer……
The Summer Shakespeare Club: PBL Choices
We have just completed our first Shakespeare club week and, whilst it is hard work, everyone is laughing lots and thoroughly enjoying themselves. It has definitely been worth all the hours I’ve put in over the past four weeks. Each afternoon the guys work for a couple of hours on their projects. As you know……
A Summer Shakespeare Club: Meeting the Members
Lorna Lorna is certifiably nuts, which is just perfect for this year’s summer adventure. We have known each other since the older children were little but it has only been in the last two years that we have grown close. Our families get together every Friday for baked potatoes and toppings, and each week we……
A Summer Shakespeare Club: Adventure Box
We’ve been making summer adventure boxes for years. They are so useful for building anticipation as the children gleefully watch them fill up with goodies over the preceding weeks. We already had most of the book resources (I often buy resources a year or two in advance) and we always keep a well stocked dressing……
Summer Shakespeare Club: Making Club T-Shirts
So, my initial email went something like this: What do you think about letting the guys choose a design to transfer (iron on) onto a white t shirts so they have Shakespeare club t shirts? You and I could have one as well?? Thoughts? Cx To which Lorna replied: One of the days we do……