Year 9 Much Ado About Nothing Scheme of Work with tasks

This is a fully resourced 7 week Scheme of Work for ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, aimed at Year 9s (but plenty of material for KS4 and could be adapted for Year 8s). I have used this with mixed ability classes, so that my lower ability students can access the tasks and my higher ability students can develop their academic writing and analysis skills.

The document is 66 pages long and comprises the following:

1. Plot overview task - fill in the blanks - with comprehension questions to test understanding
2. Character recall questions (next to images of the characters from the 1993 film
3. A list of dramatic terminology, with explanations and examples (which can be used for a vocabulary test)
4. A task to do with the genre of Shakespearean Comedy and how the play can be considered one
5. Close analysis and comprehension tasks on: Act 1 scene 1; Act 1 scene 3; Act 2 scene 1; Act 2 scene 3; Act 3 scene 1
6. Assessment preparation, assessment, mark scheme, and feedback sheet (focusing on embedding quotations and detailed analytical PEAL paragraphs) for a scene from Act 3 scene 1
7. Briefer close analysis and comprehension tasks on Act 3 scene 2, 3 and 4
8. Very detailed tasks on Act 4 scene 1, including another assessment preparation sheet and planning sheet, for one of Leonato’s speeches.
9. A newspaper report task, whereby you are a reporter reporting on the marriage ceremony and Claudio’s refusal - this has a brief, a planning table and a mark scheme - mark scheme attached.
10. A creative writing task, where you imagine Hero’s response to the accusations - writing your own script.
11. A focus on Act 5 scene 4, endings and the genre of Comedies.
12. A research task about Shakespeare, the Globe, Tragedies and Comedies
13. A stage design task: pick a moment from the play and design the set for it, giving detailed explanations of your choices.