New Classroom Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

Jo Ryan
Title New Classroom Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
Edition 1st
ISBN 9781740811866
ISBN 10 1740811860
Published 01/06/2004
Published by Pearson Australia
Pages 176
Format Paperback
In stock
 
Total Price $27.95 Add to Cart
Description
The New Classroom Shakespeare approach provides multiple access points for engaging with Shakespeare's plays. Detailed understanding of the text is the foundation of further study and is the basis of the New Classroom Shakespeare approach.

Activities springing from the text are wide-ranging and varied; they include written responses, group work presentations and computer-based technology opportunities. Multiple intelligences and mixed abilities are catered for in this flexible, easy-to-use text.

Table of contents
  1. Pre-reading material
  2. Characters
  3. Story of text
  4. The play
  5. Glossary
  6. Reading activities act by act
  7. Post-reading activities
  8. Major themes
  9. Assessment tasks
Features & benefits
Each title contains:
  • A short story version of the play
  • The original play
  • A modern language version of the play
  • Pre-reading material, including information on Shakespeare's life, Elizabethan theatre and character outlines
  • Classroom activities looking at theme, plot, language, character and dramatic techniques
  • Assessment tasks
  • Assessment sheets
  • Mini-lectures.
Target audience
Years 9-10 students