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Fun Shakespeare Starters and Plenaries for KS3/GCSE
Generate excitement and focus amongst your students with imaginative starter activities!
25 engaging starter activities per resource: 5 different types of activity, 1 of each for each Act.
- Fully cross-referenced to GCSE AOs and KS3 AFs
- 3 All instructions and answers included
| 25 Activities for each text! | |||
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| Quote Hunt | A quote is revealed word by word and students try and identify it and it's speaker | Students explore the meaning of the key word in terms of a) the whole play, and b) the quote itself | |
| Fade Out | Students try and memorise jumbled words from a quote and put them in the right order | Students explore the meaning of the key word both in and out of context | |
| Tone of Voice | Students identify the tone of voice that is appropriate for the quote given | Students work in pairs speaking the lines aloud, thinking about tone of voice, body language and dramatic pauses. | |
| Wipe Out | Students identify which 6 of 12 quotes are spoken by a particular character | Students explore and analyse one of the quotes in detail | |
| WordPics | Students have to identify the missing word of a quote using one of three picture clues | Students consider why the playright chose the identified word rather than another | |
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