Shakespeare Week at school - what things could they do?

[ThatBeetroot]

I have been asked to help - primary level

Ideas???

Read Coriolanus and take it as a practical?

Sorry (hic, have had too much lunchtime fizzy wine) will think. Hmmm. Do their own plays about Twins (Twelfth Night, that other one about twins, the one that's a play within a play, you know, Antioch)? Midsummer Night's Dream and think about the strange beings (de-prettified) that might be lurking in the woods?

Thinking about it, Shakespeare really does not lend himself to the preadolescent mind, does he.

Have a meal with food adapted from then?

Did they drink mead? could you warm up apple juice to pretend?

what years do you mean?

5 and 6 ?

draw pictures of the clothes and shoes?

Hey nonny nonny.

Watch the Doctor Who episode "The Shakespeare Code". Not historically accurate, but fun!

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Dress up as characters

Learn a dance?

Make a Globe style theatre out of stuff

Do some cuckolding?

STAR WARS & MACBETH I can't download it but try it to see

GIve them potted histories of some of the more accessible plays and get them to design masks/costumes for the main characters

Learn little sections of speeches and act them out (witches scene from Act 2 sc1 of Macbeth); Balcony scene from R&J;

'translate' scenes into modern language

Improvise scenes from scenarios you give them that are actually based on plot details from some of the plays

Design posters to advertise productions of the plays

After reading a summary of one of the plays, watch the Animated Tales version then design a programme casting their favourite famous slebs as the characters, matching up personality traits (e.g. Haeather MIlls as Lady macbeth )

Thanks for those suggestions - it is for years 3 - 7

Maybe storytelling

I could teach the iambic Pentameter!!

Yes, get them doing little tapping/dancing exercises to the iambic pentantameter!

we coud put on an iambic show!

Our KS3 (but SN) loved dressing up for Shakespeare project.They lke Midsummer nights dream best and acted out scenes and madeDOnkey masks

yes the dream woudl be good

scens form shakespeare

the witches
dream

DO the witches scene and make up their own spell in the style of Shakepeare?

Finger puppets to act out simple versiom of the plays.

There are lots of simple versions of the stories to read to them.

Could you read some simple versions and mime it?

Hot seat Romeo to think why he did what he did.

Ohh watch the modern version of R and J (is it a PG though)???

Try the RSC - their education stuff is brilliant

RSC had an open day today - and noone form the school could go

That's a Beetroot, RSC open days are usually very good.

Are you local to them ?

Odd. I'm sure I wrote 'That's a shame Beetroot'....

I am two hours away - coming up on Wed with my kids to see The Draem. I used t live in Stratford though so it seems like home

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What is it with calling MND "The Dream"? I only heard this last year. I seem to have got all through English A-Level and university without ever hearing it called that. Is it a recent development?....

we often abbreviate the names of shows when working on them. Guess it has stemmed form that. I have alsways dnoe it

King Lear = Lear

Comedy of Errors = Comedy

etc

Ah, I see. Thanks.