Series:

Collins Starting Shakespeare

2 total works

Cover of Starting ‘Macbeth’

From the author of the best-selling Starting Shakespeare, a book of fascinating resources and lively activities introducing students to Shakespeare and ‘Macbeth’, and fully preparing them for the Key Stage 3 SATs Shakespeare element.

  • Introducing the play (preparatory information and activities)
    Putting on the play
  • An interview with… (various famous Elizabethan actors)
  • Checkpoint (activities for written work following on from interview)
  • Production notes for a key scene
  • Focus on Shakespeare (an aspect of his life relevant to the play)
  • The Elizabethan theatre (focus on an aspect relevant to the play)
    Studying the play
  • Activities on genre
  • Plot
  • Characters
  • Features of the play (i.e. language – such as soliloquy, blank verse, songs, prose, oratory)
  • Focus on key speech
  • Forum (questions, answers and discussion following on from work on the key speech)
  • Comparison with another play (key speech or scene or character)
    Preparing for SATs
  • Exam technique
  • Revision (how to revise and activities)
  • Model questions
  • Homework

Cover of Starting ‘Twelfth Night’

From the author of the best-selling ‘Starting Shakespeare’, a book of fascinating resources and lively activities introducing students to Shakespeare and ‘Twelfth Night’, and fully preparing them for the Key Stage 3 SATs Shakespeare element.

  • Introducing the play (preparatory information and activities)
    Putting on the play
  • An interview with… (various famous Elizabethan actors)
  • Checkpoint (activities for written work following on from interview)
  • Production notes for a key scene
  • Focus on Shakespeare (an aspect of his life relevant to the play)
  • The Elizabethan theatre (focus on an aspect relevant to the play)
    Studying the play
  • Activities on genre
  • Plot
  • Characters
  • Features of the play (i.e. language – such as soliloquy, blank verse, songs, prose, oratory)
  • Focus on key speech
  • Forum (questions, answers and discussion following on from work on the key speech)
  • Comparison with another play (key speech or scene or character)
    Preparing for SATs
  • Exam technique
  • Revision (how to revise and activities)
  • Model questions
  • Homework