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This 12 page booklet is designed to give students a taster of a range of Shakespeare plays and characters who might be considered heroes, or tragic heroes. This booklet was originally designed for year 8 but would work across the whole of Key Stage 3.

The booklet offers activities alongside extracts giving students a taste of Shakespeare and his characters and methods, rather than the plot of whole plays. It also gives students a gentle introduction to the idea of the tragic hero.

The booklet includes the following extracts/activities:

  • A front page which allows students to consider heroic qualities.
  • A prior knowledge page where students can enter what they already know about Shakespeare and three key plays.
  • A terminology page with key play and strucural terminology.
  • A page with gap-fill definitions of tragic hero, foil, aside and hamartia.
  • A rank the heroic events page, where students must rank a range of events which link to the extracts they will later study for a S+L lesson.
  • A range of descriptions about Macbeth from across each act in the play, with a heroic/villainous graph to plot his change (also useful at KS4).
  • Two small extracts with descriptions about Macbeth from the start and end of the play.
  • A range of extracts looking at Shakespeare’s heroines: Juliet, Cordelia, and Cleopatra
  • A speech from ‘Hamlet’
  • A summary pagewhere students rank all of the characters and answer overview questions of the unit.
  • A common vocabulary page to create a Shakespeare glossary.

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martinbrown100

4 years ago
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This looks really good and I will be able to use it but there are a few flaws! The word document hasn't changed from PDF accurately so words are hidden and boxes need shifting around. There is an assumption students have studied Shakespeare in Y7. Also - I would have liked a page which explains the idea of a Tragic Hero rather than relying on a cloze exercise. This exercise could have followed a description? I think the content is good and the examples work well. It has definitely saved me some time - so thank you.

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