Shakespeare Booklet: Relationships (KS3)

You are purchasing an extensive 12 page booklet looking at a range of Shakespeare’s relationship. Both the .pdf and word document (editable but without fonts) are included. This booklet is easily a term of work and was originally designed for year 9 but could be used across Key Stage 3.

The booklet includes a range of activities and extracts.
The activities include:

• A front page which includes a research task regarding types of love in the Greek language
• A research page where students can add notes regarding attitudes to various relationships during Shakespeare’s time.
• A page including Shakespeare’s method terminology and terminology for Freytag’s pyramid.
• The ten key events of ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet’ to be put in order and key quotations added (whist watching the Animated Tales versions) - this is also suitable for KS4.

Each extract page includes an explanation of the relationship, a gap to add in new vocabulary and notes, and a range of questions relevant to the extract. The extracts are:

• Hamlet and Gertrude’s argument
• Benedick and Beatrice’s first conversation
• Romeo and Juliet’s first meeting and balcony meeting
• Paris asks Lord Capulet for Juliet’s hand in marriage
• Juliet refuses Lord Capulet’s arranged wedding
• Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth into killing Duncan
• The Macbeths’ reactions to murdering Duncan