The RSC Shakespeare Toolkit for Teachers An Active Approach to Bringing Shakespeare's Plays Alive in the Classroom with DVD

by Royal Shakespeare Company

• ISBN13: 9781408114285
• ISBN10: 1408114283
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-01
• Publisher: A&C Black

Summary

A unique educational resource for Key Stage 3 English and Drama and Shakespeare at Key Stage 2. Developed by one of the world's leading theatre companies, the resource offers teachers a practical drama-based approach to teaching and appreciating three of Shakespeare's most popular plays: Romeo and Juliet , Macbeth , and A Midsummer Night's Dream . This resource brings the plays alive as performance pieces with pupils undertaking drama-based explorations of the text that take them through much of the play, with teachers' notes and accompanying photocopiable worksheets for a lesson by lesson teaching route through each of the three plays in turn. The schemes of work offer teachers a route through each play that has been designed to be flexible and to bolt on to what they already teach. The schemes comprise a series of lessons that can either be followed in their entirety as a stand-alone scheme of work or it can be dipped into by teachers wanting to augment their existing schemes of work. The activities are all mapped to the KS3 Framework for English and KS2 Primary Framework for Literacy objectives, and offer suggestions for homework activities as well.

Author Biography

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is one of the most distinguished theatre companies in the world and is based in Great Britain at Stratford-Upon-Avon.

Table of Contents

"This toolkit is essential to bring the Bard to life."—The Teacher

"300 pages of detailed, imaginative teaching ideas..."—The Stage magazine

 

"It really does put plenty of ‘tools’ in your ‘kit’ and gives you lots (and lots) of routes right into the play you are working on... Everything, including dozens of worksheets, can be legally photocopied for distribution to the class. Probably more convenient for most teachers is the CD-ROM which provides all the teacher notes, resource sheets and worksheets as printable PDFs along with extra image and text resources for some lessons."—Teaching Drama

 

"The book itself is a lesson in simplicity: clear chapters, with excellent sign-posting and lesson plans, should inspire teachers to dip in and out...developed by experts for teachers...a must for your classroom."—Ink Pellet

 

"Basically the book is a complete resource for an active approach to teaching Shakespeare in the classroom."—Secondary Education

 

"Combines accessible practical ways of playing with Shakespeare's text with the intellectual rigour and active approaches which are part of the RSC's rehearsal process."—Youth Theatre News

 

"What a welcome the Shakespeare 'toolkit for teachers' will be for students who are sick of poring over the texts, trying to decode the language."—The Independent