Tag Shakespeare
As part of his Macbeth Project, Tobias unlocked his Soliloquy badge by learning and presenting this speech by Lady Macbeth.
Jameel unlocked the Poetry by Heart with this piece as part of his Romeo and Juliet project
Ibby unlocked the Soliloquy Badge with this piece as part of his Romeo and Juliet project
As part of their Year 11 GCSE project exploring Shakespeare and the Literary Heritage, Mr Waugh’s class created, in conjunction with the Royal Shakespeare Company, The CLC and the British Film Institute, a short film based on an extract from… Continue Reading →
Advice to students who are working on their Romeo and Juliet project on how to prepare for their essay on fate.
As part of their Romeo and Juliet Project, these students re-enacted a scene from the play in a more, let’s say, contemporary, context.
As part of the introduction to our Year 8 Macbeth Study, we’re looking, in acute detail, at some small excerpts from the main play. Before we start reading. Before we know the plot. We’re putting the microscope on the language… Continue Reading →
This presentation incorporates the close analysis of a short excerpt from Macbeth, where Lady Macbeth reveals her dark resolve for the presence of the figurative language feature, Personification. › Access the whole learning programme: waugh8.edutronic.net/macbeth-personification-2/
As part of our exploration of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus the class is engaging in some research about the Elizabethan times and the context from which the play arose. Included here is a short video where I try to give the… Continue Reading →
As part of their Romeo and Juliet project, students from the London Nautical School learned and presented dramatic monologues. This is Barnaby performing the eternal “But soft…”
The presentation that accompanies a lesson introducing the process of language analysis to a Year 9 English class. In this lesson the students are shown an example of metaphor – and then are given a different excerpt from the text… Continue Reading →
The students were given 30 minutes to find a location, script and record a modern interpretation of a self-selected scene from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. This is what happened… Find out more: http://waugh8.www.edutronic.net/category/shakespeare/
As part of her class’ Romeo and Juliet Project, Emily made this filmed interpretation of a scene from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Have a look at other students’ interpretations
An explanation of what the word ‘interpretation’ means and some examples of how Baz Luhrmann has interpreted Romeo and Juliet in his film version. This will support the students in their extension work, which involves exploring the contrasts between the… Continue Reading →