Its Shakespeare's B-DAY!? A colleague of mine brought up throwing a birthday party as we had the uncanny beginning of Romeo and Juliet in our ENG2D class through this past week, "why not throw a birthday?". I am all for starting traditions and celebrating international "blah blah blah days", let's do it!
This post is going to talk about some of the things we did in our B-day parties for Shakespeare and if you like, you can head over to my TPT store front and purchase some of the resources with lesson plans built for the ON Curriculum of Grade 10 Academic English.
Check out a Poem called, :"Masquerade Ball" by Special K.
This was key in setting a more comfortable and welcoming tone to the Shakespeare Webquest/Intro week that leads to his birthday.
NOTE: In my resource bundles you will find oddss and ends-PPT's and worksheets that scaffold literary devices; and student communcation.
Masquerade Ball is a great intro text for pairing with RNJ because of the quick injection into that scene that the story gets into (or that teachers may jump scenes to)
Students painted pulp paper masks (I acutally wanted to have paper mache masks made but time wasn't permitting. Students painted, discussed, cleaned up-it was a nice class climate building acitvity that led to a journal reflection (in a particular three paragraph structure) that was submitted for formative communication, knowledge, and application feedback.
These masks would be worn on Friday during the acitvities and could be included in an activity if the teacher made it such.
Students will then be participating in a webquest that requires them to ifll in information about a timeline of Shakespeare's life (scavebger hunt around the room style)-based off some activities as shared by onestopenglish.com; I had to make them more ELL appropriate as the tasks were too mundane and yet too difficult to concenstrate on as actively with the amount of translation needed to access the materials in the way they weren't to be.
Note, Romeo and juliet is often done with grades 9 and/or 10, feel free to amend resources accoridngly.
If you like those teasers for the introduction price-keep an eye out for full unit plans in regards to Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet
Recently came across a great and easy to use Shakespeare Classic Play Study tool (no VPN needed)!
Hamlet
https://myshakespeare.com/hamlet/act-1-scene-1
Macbeth
https://myshakespeare.com/macbeth/act-1-scene-1
Romeo and Juliet
https://myshakespeare.com/romeo-and-juliet/act-1-scene-1
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