A Midsummer Night's Dream: Activity Pack for AS and A Level Edexcel
- Edexcel AS & A Level
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies, having been performed continuously for 400 years. It is both a tour- de- force in terms of its poetic language and perhaps the most immediately humorous of all the comedies, with slapstick elements that retain a strong appeal for audiences today.
This student-friendly activity pack provides a variety of ready-to-use handouts, covering the whole text, for you to mix and match to suit your class.
Activities include:
- engaging questions
- critical thinking tasks
- close reading tasks
- pair and group tasks
- research tasks
- revision flash cards
- presentations
Accessible for every level and linked to the AOs throughout!
Plus!
- Indicative content for all activities
Prepare
Pre-reading exercises provide a starting point for study
Explore
Appealing chapter-by-chapter tasks guide students through the
play, allowing them to gain understanding and analytical skills while remaining engaged
Reflect
Whole-text activities show the bigger picture, exploring key
areas of: Characterisation • Relationships • Genre • Themes •
Attitudes and values • Writer's use of language • Form •
Structure • Context • Critical reception
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What do teachers say about this resource? (12783)
I like the fact that full answers are provided for all of the tasks that have questions. This will save time for the teacher. Having links for extra reading is a real bonus. It is an opportunity to give the more able extra reading or as straight forward homework tasks. There is evidently good knowledge here... Ideas for the recreative tasks are helpful as this is often difficult. The links to Bloom taxonomy is certainly something Ofsted would like to see!
I thought this was a fabulous resource, one of the best I have reviewed and I want to get it myself. It is a one-stop shop of everything you would need to prepare pupils for the course requirements. There were so many things I liked about the resource, for example: excellent quality essay tasks, I liked the linking of AO to activities at the start of the resource and creative and active tasks which would help engage pupils and move literature beyond a sitting at desks and reading style. Written by an excellent teacher who knows what they are doing.
From the very first page there are further suggestions and links to websites to help teachers deliver the content. All the worksheets are ready to use and are clear to both teachers and students. A range of characters and themes are covered in a variety of ways. There are also creative writing tasks which enhance this resource further. I like how the students can see that they are using the higher levels of thinking (Blooms taxonomy diagram). All the resources have the answers on a separate sheet which is useful if someone is covering your lesson or it is your first time teaching the text.