Shakespeare & Technology
This is another assignment from my final semester English class. There were two parts to this assignment. 1) Select one of the websites about Shakespeare from the e is for English page and discuss how it could be incorporated into an ‘Introduction to Shakespeare’s World’ unit. 2) Take one scene from a given selection and [...]
More Midsummer Night Dreams
Today I got to see the results from last lesson’s group work, where year 8 were modernising scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. On the whole, I was really happy with what they came up with. One group in particular stood out, who had converted the text into what I like to call Clueless-speak. There [...]
Midsummer Night’s Dream
I was only planning on taking the year 11 class today, but then my master teacher asked if I wanted to do something with her year 8s. I’ve had a lesson with them before looking at the love tangle in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and in that lesson they’d asked to get the chance to [...]