Author(s): Fred Sedgwick
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 192
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Date Published: 2011-10-20
Dimensions: 210 x 294 x 10mm
Publication City/Country: New York, United States
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Illustrations: 10 bw illustrations

This resource contains inspirational lesson plans for teaching Shakespeare to students aged 11-16. Despite being dead for nearly 400 years, Shakespeare's plays and plots are very much alive in the modern curriculum. For many of those required to study him, however, their enthusiasm is dead and buried. This fantastic resource provides lessons to engage and enlighten students and is guaranteed to breathe fresh life into the language of a writer which, as his friend Ben Jonson said, is 'for all time'. Aimed at those teaching Shakespeare to students aged from 11-16, Fred Sedgwick provides tried-and-tested lessons accompanied by photocopiable resources to enable teachers to develop their good practice and inspire their students. This book is a user-friendly manual featuring activities, teaching strategies and schemes informed by current ideas about teaching and learning and the curriculum, designed to assist busy teachers. The lessons are all clearly linked to the National Curriculum requirements but the ideas are accessible and applicable to anyone studying Shakespeare at this level.
The photocopiable material accompanying each activity is also available for download from the companion website. It's hard enough for teachers to fit all their marking, extra-curricular duties and training into their lives, let alone finding time to think up exciting new ways of delivering their subject to a mixed-ability class. This new series offers complete, curriculum-friendly lesson plans for busy secondary school teachers of various disciplines. Each title includes an assortment of lesson plans designed to motivate and inspire students. Each plan consists of a teacher's sheet, providing: the aims and objectives of the lesson; a lesson starter, main phase, plenary and homework ideas, each with suggested timeframes, and guidance on how to adapt the activities to make them harder or easier for gifted and talented, or less able pupils. Each plan also includes a photocopiable, or downloadable student task sheet which corresponds to the teacher's lesson plan, plus online resources including links to useful websites, material to display on the whiteboard and time-saving cheat sheets.