Macbeth: Making Shakespeare Accessible for Teachers and Students [With CDROM] (Classical Comics: Teaching Resource Pack)

Macbeth: Making Shakespeare Accessible for Teachers and Students [With CDROM] (Classical Comics: Teaching Resource Pack)

Karen Wenborn, Joe Sutliff Sanders (Translator), Jon Haward (Artist)
$22.95
Publication Date: September 10th, 2013
Publisher:
Classical Comics
ISBN:
9781907127731
Pages:
104
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Description

Designed for the classroom, this resource book contains activities and exercises to help the teaching of Macbeth.

Although it was designed to be used alongside the Macbeth graphic novels, it can be used with any version of the play.

It includes a broad range of topics including: structure, listening, understanding, motivation and character as well as key words, themes and literary techniques.

The exercises have been approached from a cross-curriculum perspective so that they cover not only literature and literacy, but also history, technology, drama, reading, speaking, writing and art.

The age range is 10 to 17, but of course within that span exists a broad spectrum of skill levels. Therefore, this study guide includes activities for all, providing many opportunities for differentiated teaching and for the tailoring of lessons to meet individual needs.

Examples of some of the activities are:
Background
. The Globe Theatre - with comprehension questions
. The history of the "Scottish Play"
. Scene by scene synopsis

Character
. Macbeth - from hero to villain?
. Lady Macbeth - discussion points and write her diary activity
. King Duncan - questions to answer from the text

Language
. Metaphors and Similes
. Shakespeare's language - insults and iambic pentameters
. Find the missing words
. Wordsearch

Understanding the play
. Describe what is happening, and what happens next, from a page out of the graphic novel
. Write a book review
. Quiz

Drama/Art
. Conduct a trial for Lady Macbeth
. Write and perform a sequel
. Coloring pages

and many more...

A CD is included that contains the pages in PDF format so that they can be used on any whiteboard or local intranet system.

About the Author

As a parent Karen Wenborn recognizes the need to provide today's Playstation generation with literature in a format that will engage and delight. Already the proud owner of well over 2,000 books, (all of which have been read), there is little that Karen doesn't know about literature from all periods. Jon Haward created the original artwork for Classical Comics' Macbeth graphic novels. Gary Erskine assisted on the Macbeth graphic novels and has inked on The Tempest among other titles. Nigel Dobbyn has previously lettered the Henry V graphic novels and both lettered and colored the Macbeth graphic novels for Classical Comics. Clive Bryant is the founder of Classical Comics and has served as Editor in Chief for the entire series of graphic novels and teaching resources.

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