Ways Into Shakespeare: Merchant Of Venice
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Subject: English Literature
Level: Secondary
Age Group: 11 - 14
Order Number: 5022
Ways Into Shakespeare
Do your pupils grimace and groan when you take a set of Shakespeare plays into the classroom?
Is the unfamiliar language and inaccessible texts a barrier with modern pupils?
This set of worksheets is designed to provide flexible and innovative ways to help teachers before the introduction the Shakespearean text.
Each pack consists of 20 sides of pupil activities, pupil support material and guidance notes.
- Suitable for all secondary school levels
- Includes photocopiable master worksheets and full teacher's notes
- All based on successful classroom practice
- Uses literature sources both contemporary with and prior to Shakespeare
Merchant of Venice
Worksheets introduce the theme of debt. Instances from present day society provoke questions about the validity of debt recovery, tangentially preparing pupils for the subject matter of the play.
Guaranteed to provoke classroom discussions about pertinent issues before they even know it is anything to do with Shakespeare!
Further worksheets and guidance notes follow up the work on this theme as the study of the play progresses.
