A Practical Guide to Shakespeare for the Primary School: 50 Lesson Plans using Drama

A Practical Guide to Shakespeare for the Primary Classroomis an essential resource for all teachers, offering guidance, insight and compelling schemes of work for the study of Shakespeare through drama in the primary classroom. The schemes form the centre of a comprehensive cross-curricular unit of work and are built upon four years of work on the ground with children and teachers in The Children#xE2;#xAC;"s Shakespeare Festival; an initiative in the north-west of England that the author continues to direct. Shakespeare is our key historical icon but so often Shakespeare remains locked behind glass and hard to reach. The purpose of this book is to unlock Shakespeare, to remove the tag of #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;high art#xE2;#xAC;" that has surrounded his work and return him to the heart of popular culture where his plays began in the first place. John Doona will inspire and motivate pupils and teachers alike to engage with Shakespeare in a fresh and accessible manner and provide clear tried and tested schemes of work which demonstrate how engagement with the plays and their language can have a dramatic impact on children#xE2;#xAC;"s literacy and writing. As well as providing practical guidance to performance this handbook also gives an account of learning outcomes linked to literacy targets and cross-curricular units of learning. A Practical Guide to Shakespeare for the Primary School, offers practical tips and guidance for working with children from 5-11 using any Shakespeare text or extract, later chapters focus on four specific plays #xE2;#xAC;#x1C; A Midsummer Night#xE2;#xAC;"s Dream, The Tempest, Macbeth, and Hamlet, providing background notes and historical facts linked to the plays, along with comprehensive schemes of work for immediate implementation and ideas for generating performance. Features unique to this resource include: free electronic #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;info-blasts#xE2;#xAC;" to all book buyers containing additional resources and lesson plans story jigsaw of Shakespeare#xE2;#xAC;"s life and #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;Five minute Will#xE2;#xAC;" a short comic scripted account of his life drama for the petrified #xE2;#xAC;#x1C; a crash course for teachers in the techniques, approaches and attitudes required to bring Shakespeare to life comprehensive schemes of work for immediate implementation in the classroom, centred on the plays, Midsummer Night#xE2;#xAC;"s Dream, Hamlet, the Tempest, and Macbeth case studies and accounts from teachers and pupils who have participated in the Children#xE2;#xAC;"s Shakespeare Festival including examples of classroom work.