Introducing Shakespeare KS3 Teaching Resources

Introducing Shakespeare for KS3

This useful introduction, specially written for KS3 introduces pupils to Shakespeare's England and to Shakespeare's Theatre. There are worksheets on Elizabeth I, Elizabethan Clothes, Houses and Homes, Food, Life in Town and Country, Shakespeare's Home and Family, Stratford-on-Avon, School, Games and Sport, Fairs and Festivals, Ships and Sailors, and Shakespeare's London.

The section dealing with Shakespeare's theatre includes worksheets on Plays and Pageants, Travelling Players, Elizabethan Theatres, Actors and Writers, Plays, Plague and Poems, Shakespeare's Histories, Comedies, Tragedies, The Globe, The Stage, Stage Properties, Costume, and Special Effects.

This pack includes a simple model of the Globe theatre for pupils to make - an effective way of making the essential features of the Elizabethan stage clear to students.

The full scheme of work can be downloaded here:

https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-introducing-shakespeare-scheme-of-work-11889714

KS3 schemes of work on Shakespeare's plays

Introducing Romeo and Juliet https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-introducing-romeo-and-juliet-scheme-of-work-11891511

and

Introducing A Midsummer Night's Dream https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/ks3-introducing-a-midsummer-night-s-dream-scheme-of-work-11895881

The workpacks are divided into three sections.

Section One contains a shortened version of the play in simple modern English.
Section Two contains a shortened version of the play in Shakespeare's language.
Section Three contains worksheets on each scene with work on storyline, characters and themes.

Free sample pages from all of our schemes of work are also available from the TES resources site. The regular licence enables you to use the resource with your own students. Copy, edit and provide the material to those students you teach in any medium or format for the purpose of educating them and/or their private study/exam revision. The school licence allows you also to share the resource with colleagues at your school.