"The Bay trees in our country are all withered" (Richard II: II, iv).
Collèges & Lycées,
meet the Bard of Avon !
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 "Shakespeare's
works contain references to adultery, incest, and
premarital sex, and is replete with bawdy humor and double entendres.
And don't forget the violence.
Don't even get me started on the violence!
Quick- name a Shakespearean tragedy where the title characters
live through the fifth act.
Couldn't do it, could you? Bodies pile up faster in Shakespeare's plays
than they do in the Baltimore morgue
Consider yourself warned..."
(from the introduction to this SITE
for intermediate level students).
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"Shakespeare
didn't know grammar! he
wrote: "more strong", "more strange", "more sweet",
"more fitter", "more corrupter", "most poorest"...
When asked the reason for these 'errors', I somewhat archly reply that Shakespeare
didn't observe the rules of grammar because he didn't have them." - Karl Tamburr,
Professor of English.
WEBQUEST SUR SHAKESPEARE avec un groupe d'élèves de 2de: J'ai repéré
3 bons sites
qui sont maintenant sur le réseau intranet du lycée. J'ai préparé
et placé sur ma Page des grilles
de travail à remplir sur la biographie du barde, les théâtres,
le Globe Theater, la période élisabéthaine. Les élèves
complètent les grilles, rédigent un texte à partir des informations
trouvées, et me font une présentation finale sous forme d'exécutable
avec images, sons, vidéo... -Annie
Hall.
A
website for the beginning to intermediate
Shakespeare reader - not intended for scholars!
Biographie en Français de Shakespeare par Mario PRAZ, Dictionnaire des Auteurs, Laffont-Bompiani.
Never
too young for Shakespeare...
Tales From Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb - les pièces de théâtre
sous forme de contes - excellente
approche pour débutants, élèves...
Renaissance
Texts Research Center
- with a virtual tour of the Globe Theater.
Shakespeare films in class - Tragedy Series videos.
Knowledge Notes: 23 Hamlet Study Blocks.
Webspeare - 'Hey
Shakespeare, what are you saying to today's high school students?' (Shakespearean
resource for high school students and teachers).
The Mae Boyar High School intends
to try teach Romeo and Juliet in 2001, and teacher Jack Pillemer has created a site for this purpose. Useful to teachers and pupils
as well, it includes web based animation, chat, forms, e-mail, links etc. The site
is still growing.
In British secondary schools the teachers avoid dealing directly with the texts,
which proves to be quite difficult for many kids. Using filmed versions of the plays
is quite common, they even have half hour animated versions of each play ! This site
gives general advice on
How to Watch a Shakespearean Film
Renaissance
Texts Center - with
a Globe Theater tour.
Shakespeare
Garden "The Bay
trees in our country are all withered" (Richard II: II, iv). Shakespeare's observations
of the livelihood of the flowers, his keen awareness, are a constant delight. No
matter the setting, whether Egypt, Rome, Illyria, Venice...the plants in his poetry
are the plants of Shakespeare's England... Legends, lore, uses, symbolism of the
plants, as known to the Elizabethans, is there.
Teaching
materials.
Student packets. Lesson Plans.
Inspire
creatve writing using
Shakespeare .
Words
Shakespeare has added to English (each week).
Understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare's plays.
Sonnet CXVI, animated... Full text of all sonnets.
About Shakespeare's Love Sonnets : no single sonnet can be picked out without looking at all the sonnets
together...
Les
Sonnets: présentation
+ traduction, par Conscience.
Shakespeare
Classroom materials.
Teaching Shakespeare.
PAGE SHAKESPEARE
pour Agrégation et CAPES d'Anglais'.
Have some Shakespeare FUN !
The Shakespeare Classroom
HOW TO WATCH a Shakespearean film
For the study of Romeo & Juliet
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'AS YOU LIKE IT' - IN THE CLASSROOM
THE GOAL : teaching 'some' literature, creating discussions,
providing writing topics. As
You Like It - act II, scene VII, from «All the world's a stage» to «Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.».
THE SEVEN STEPS, by Galia
Kaspi, ETNI
1. I started out with a question
about the stages in life we go through (My lead in to this can't be used by everyone,
however: I told my class that I had {re}married over the summer! I couldn't have
timed it better!) I tried to keep it to the NUMBER
of stages as opposed to the ACTUAL stages. I wanted to later get into our obsession
with categorization and « stage
naming » but it got lost in everything else that was
going on over the last two weeks...
2. I then gave them a copy
of Shakespeare's "As You Like It", which I read to them (without stopping
for questions - the goal was more to talk about stages and descriptive writing than
to examine Shakespeare...)
3. In pairs, the class then
copied out the stage "titles" and the DESCRIPTIVE words and phrases used
to describe them. Only after that did we discuss the stages and their meanings. The
class supplied explanations for his use of "soldier" or "justice"
etc. to head his stages...
4. Second hour they had to write their own stages in life, using lots of descriptive
phrases and clever adjectives. We talked about the differences in expected life spans
in Shakespeare's time and our own. They did the writing in pairs, small groups or
individually. These were then polished up at home and turned in the next lesson.
I have sent some excerpts to the ETNI home page "Students Write". I also
asked them to bring in songs they had (in English, of course) about life cycles.
5. I was given about 4 different songs but for lack of a CD player, we couldn't
listen to them! We then went on the Robert Frost and compared Shakespeare's stages
with Frost's method of using the seasons to categorize stages. Then we did "The
Road Not Taken".
6. The 2nd hour I gave them reading comprehension, "The Circle Game"
which created excellent discussion on their different interpretations.
7. The final assignment on this "unit" was to write (draft in class)
on the stage of life they preferred, explaining why. Those were just turned in yesterday
so I haven't had time to read them all, but it's been very enjoyable for me !
Humeurs: Does
Shakespeare still have a role to play in today's world? Natalie doesn't think so.
Find out why!
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