Beth in SW WA Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 My noble attempt at making Fridays 'light & fun' includes a half-day devoted to Shakespeare. Is anyone else doing Shakespeare Fridays? I'd love to share ideas. I'm keeping it simple and using the ideas here to help get us started. Thanks in advance. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daisy Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 We are! I'm keeping it simply also. My plans for the year look something like this... We read several books about Shakespeare's life and the Globe theater and created notebooking pages at the beginning of the year. Read versions of the plays from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare or Lamb's Tale's from Shakespeare. While I'm reading, the kids color in their Shakespeare Coloring book from Bellerophon. I've tried to get library books on the two plays we've covered so far as well. My son likes to read them and compare the versions. Then we try to find them to watch or listen to. We've listened to Jim Weiss' Shakespeare for Children (Midsummer Night's Dream & Taming of the Shrew) and I want to get his Romeo and Juliet recording. We've watched Taming of the Shrew with Elizabeth Taylor and I'm still looking for a good Netflix version of Midsummer Night's Dream. The kids are also going to memorize Sonnet 29 and 116 (the goal is one per semester). I'm just aiming for an introduction but the kids are loving it! If all goes well, I'm hoping my 6th grader will read a No Fear Shakespeare play this spring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonshineLearner Posted October 2, 2010 Share Posted October 2, 2010 Good Idea! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soror Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 I haven't done it on Fridays but part of lit has been Shakespeare for Children, thanks so much for all those great links. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 We're doing Shakespeare later in the year, but my goal is to get a bunch of kids together for a performance. People in my homeschool group have expressed an interest. It's probably totally nuts to get a bunch of K-3rd graders together to do Shakespeare, but we're going to give it a shot. That's probably the definition of NOT keeping it simple though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debbie in OR Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 In addition to some of the above listed things, we do readers theater because I am a huge fan of the benefits of readers theater. I found a book called Simply Shakespeare: Readers Theatre for Young People by Jennifer Kroll and it's wonderful. Not only is the reading aloud great for their reading and vocabulary development, but learning to project and enunciate is also developed. Plus, my dc (esp. dd9) love doing plays. Be sure to read the corresponding story first so they have a grasp on what they are acting out. We also love, love, love the Shakespeare books by Bruce Coville. They are beautifully illustrated and, although abridged, have maintained (mostly) the integrity of the language. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 In addition to some of the above listed things, we do readers theater because I am a huge fan of the benefits of readers theater. I found a book called Simply Shakespeare: Readers Theatre for Young People by Jennifer Kroll and it's wonderful. Not only is the reading aloud great for their reading and vocabulary development, but learning to project and enunciate is also developed. Plus, my dc (esp. dd9) love doing plays. Thank you for that! I posted here asking for this exact resource and no one responded! I had found another that looked promising, but that one looks even better. Thanks :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debbie in OR Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 I posted here asking for this exact resource and no one responded! :) You're welcome! I miss volumes of what happens here on the curriculum and general boards, otherwise I would have responded. It moves so quickly that I can not keep up :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelBee Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 Oh...this is a great idea! Thinking... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiegirl Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 When my oldest was younger, we would always read the Nesbit version first then we would make puppets (out of wooden spoons, socks, stuffed animals, etc.) and put on the play so she would be more familiar with all of the characters. Then we would read Lamb's version to cement it all in. I haven't done this with my two youngers, hmmm, maybe we should go back to this. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter's Moon Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 I would have loved to have been introduced to Shakespeare so young. I was first introduced to him in 9th grade, sadly. Romeo and Juliet. In tenth grade while reading Julius Caesar, I would always say "I don't understand any of this silly language" but whenever the teacher asked a question about making connections or character flaws I would be one of the first to answer. Anyways, just stopped by to say I wish I'd done this that young so I could get used to the language and have admired it more. I'm actually in the middle of Henry V though :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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