William Shakespeare Project
Think about presentation. How will you divide up sections? What will you use to catch the reader’s eye diagrams, sketches, pictures, photos?
How about using a display folder to hold all your pages.
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You might want to include (click on the text for further information)
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Shakespeare’s biography – key events in Shakespeare’s life
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Shakespeare’s works – his plays, poems and other works – the stories behind his plays
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Shakespeare’s times – when he lived and what the world was like in those days, who was on the throne, what influenced his plays and how people responded to them
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The theatre – what the theatre was like in Shakespeare’s times – how play-watching developed
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Bibliography – a list of websites, books and other documents used to find out your information. There are lots of ideas down the sides of this webpage and on the "further information" page
The DVD -Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
(PG)- animates 12 plays each lasting 30 minutes (scroll for list of
those included):
1. Romeo & Juliet
2. Twelfth Night
3. The Tempest
4. A Midsummer's Nights Dream
5. Richard III
6. Othello
7. The Taming Of The Shrew
8. Macbeth
9. A Winter's Tale
10. As You Like It
11. Hamlet
12. Julius Caesar
Recommended Resources
Don't forget - full texts of All Shakespeare's plays are available for free download on this site.
In the right-hand margin are details of helpful videos to quickly get the gist of the listed plays
Click through to the "further information" page for details of good books for all aspects of your project
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Do this at the end!
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If not too long you might like to just list your titles and page numbers.
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Or try the automatic table of contents in word using the following steps:
Decide which are your main headings and give them a heading style (FORMAT-STYLE-Click on Heading 1 in window at right-hand side)
Decide if you want to list any of your subheadings in the table of contents. If so, give them a heading too in the same way (Choose Heading 2 if it is a first-level subheading or you could use Heading 3 for further levels of subheadings)
Create the table of contents (INSERT-REFERENCE-INDEX AND TABLES). Select the Table of Contents Tab and then OK.
That simple!
A timeline may help organise some of this section.
You might like to include:
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His full name
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When and where he was born
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Places he lived
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What his parents did
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What his childhood was like
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What jobs he had
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Details of any wife or children
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When he started writing
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Different types of writings that he produced
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His path to fame
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His later years
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When he died and his age when he died
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What people of the time thought of him
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Any other facts you have found out.
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Any myths surrounding his life and times.
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Types of writing – plays, sonnets, ..
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How many works Shakespeare produced
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How the plays can be grouped – historical, comedy, tragedy – and a description of each style of play
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Some detail about a particular play from each group
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How his works were received at the time
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What people think of Shakespeare’s work nowadays.
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How people lived
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People’s life expectancy
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Who was on the throne
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What people believed in those days.
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Law and order at those times
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What did people do for entertainment?
How many children did the average family have?
A diagram of the theatre may help with the presentation
of this section.
You might like to include
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How travelling actors used to perform plays.
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When the globe theatre was built
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How was the globe theatre organised – where different classes of people sat
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Women’s roles in plays
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Use of music, props and costumes
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How much it cost to go to the theatre
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What other types of entertainment people enjoyed
Make your work fun by including one or two of the following :
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A Shakespeare crossword, word search or other puzzle
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A list of common sayings that come from Shakespeare
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A quiz based on the information you put in your project