If you’re brave, you could sing it to your class once they’re in the door and sitting down. But I’ve never been that brave. Personally, how I love to start to teach Shakespeare is by introducing the unit with a Shakespearean insults activity. Why? Because it makes Shakespeare seem fun instead of intimidating. And students become curious instead of cautious when reading his work. Do you wear your heart on your sleeve? Are you sometimes the green-eyed monster? Although Shakespeare wrote over 400 years ago, the creative language he used to describe the human spirit remains relevant today. Remove the tracing paper and blow away the excess charcoal to create a dot-to-dot image which you can join up to make an outline. Add colour with chalk pastels or paints. Cook a Tudor dish Know someone who likes writing their own poems and loves Shakespeare too? This Shakespeare Magnetic Poetry Kit is exactly the gift you’re looking for!

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. ( Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5) Let’s imagine someone suggests ‘Bark of a tree and wheel from a car’. Now you have to invent a second line that ends with a rhyme for ‘car’ – bar, afar, star, scar and tar are possibilities. Of these four, ‘star’ or ‘scar’ are probably the easiest and might give you: This Shakespeare Tie is another exciting wearable Shakespeare gift, especially for professors or others who often have the chance to wear ties in their everyday life! This 6-book set features 2 volumes of each category of Shakespeare dramas: comedies, tragedies, and histories. Inside are 15 favorite Shakespeare works from Much Ado About nothing, to Romeo & Juliet, to Henry V and more. Plus, they’re beautiful hardcover editions that will look amazing on bookshelves, so all in all this is a delightful Shakespeare gift! I suspect they enjoyed the freedom to choose what to concentrate upon, but were also supported by a strong scaffold that meant everyone could succeed.Looking for a gift for someone who loves Shakespeare? There are a ton of amazing and funny Shakespeare items, and in this gift guide you’ll discover all the best Shakespeare gifts that any fan would love to receive! 1. Hamlet Glass Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 3) 32. “Thou clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch!”

First of all, make a long list of possible ingredients with the children. Anything can be used – parts of animals, things found in nature or the city, things from home or school, toys, parts of vehicles. Not only that, but many of my students were reading below their chronological age, and they struggled with comprehension. The class was boisterous and boy-heavy, with a few leading personalities who liked to get up to mischief. Know someone who loves Shakespeare and LEGOs? If so, this William Shakespeare LEGO Minifigure is a must-buy! Students had the option to let another student in class read their insults aloud during the competition. So, the shy kids still participated but didn’t have to do something they found uncomfortable. Winston believes that trading such insults in a controlled environment allows children to safely experiment and play with slightly darker elements of language, something they naturally enjoy doing. Feel the rhythm

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The DfE’s Shakespeare For All Ages and Stages publication suggests that storytelling, improvisation and role play be the focus of KS1 work. KS2 work can develop aspects of performance and dramatic approaches with cultural visits encouraged. ‘Whoosh’ activity William Shakespeare was a master wordsmith and his plays featured language that we still use today. His writing contained many insults and cutting remarks that would make people wince even now! Shakespeare uses the rhythm to distinguish these supernatural beings from the play’s human characters and the chant-like sound of the language will feel natural to children. Double, double, toil and trouble The fairy works for the fairy Queen and has to toil through the night dropping dew on the cowslips to make the world a prettier place. To start off, I read them sonnet 18, which starts with the words almost every teacher will know, ‘Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?’

Insult your friends, Shakespeare style– The literary folks at CNN have their own Shakespeare insult generator. This Insult-o-Meter is special. You get to select gender and severity to unleash a customized barb. Students can use the lesson digitally with a drag-and-drop insult creator and a translation activity. You also get suggested teacher instructions and a competition tree to write students’ names onto if you are running the lesson as a competition. But really, the chance to throw some teacher-sanctioned shade and swear (even in Shakespearean) was the real reward for the lesson. That and the bragging rights if you happened to throw down an epic insult. The tie measures 3″ at the blade and is 58″ long, and is dry clean only. The Shakespeare pattern is so fun, but is also subtle enough that you could wear this tie for pretty much any occasion!These free emotional wellbeing activities will help your pupils to become Will’s Wellbeing Warriors as part of your Shakespeare Week celebrations. Why, thou deboshed fish thou...Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?”

To make oak gall ink you need to collect a couple of good handfuls of oak gallsand crush using a pestle and mortar. One of these is particularly appealing to children. The witches in Macbeth speak in trochaic tetrameter (four pairs of a stressed followed by an unstressed beat).

Looking for a gift for someone who loves reading Shakespeare? This William Shakespeare Collection: 6-Book Deluxe Hardcover Set is a gorgeous set of books any Shakespeare fan would love to have on their shelf! If your school arranged in a way where classes are competitive (like in Harry Potter), you could award points to the winning class. Once the children had the basic idea, I had up my sleeve a number of other lines that could be used in the same way. This Shakespeare insults poster measures 18×24 and contains 100 of Shakespeare’s greatest zingers. They’re sorted by topic, and each insult is labelled with the play it comes from, so you can easily find the quotes on the poster and in the plays! First, we cleared the basic idea of the poem out of the way. He’s praising his girlfriend and saying that even when she grows old, she will still be beautiful because he has captured her forever in the poem. Making comparisons