A Midsummer Night's Dream

This six-week teaching pack is designed to develop KS3 students’ reading, writing and spoken English skills with a range of drama and performance activities and creative tasks.

The pack focuses on key scenes and includes tasks based upon diaries, scripts, cartoons and set design to encourage close textual engagement.

What’s included?
An assessment objective map
Lesson plans and ideas along with tailor-made resources.

What’s inside?
Introduction Summary of pack 1 Route through – week one (overview of the text) (pages 2-3)
Route through – week two (Act 1, Scene 1) (pages 4-5)
Route through – week three (Act 2, Scenes 1 and 2) (pages 6-7)
Route through – week four (Act 3, Scenes 1 and 2) (pages 8-9)
Route through – week five (Act 4, Scene 1 and Act 5, Scene 1) (pages 10-11)
Route through – week six (essay writing and consolidation) (pages 12-13)
Resources (pages 14-76)

• Works like a dream
• Storyboard template
• Sequencing the plot
• Character map
• How well do you know the play?
• Who’s who
• Story zoom
• Relationship tableaux
• News flash
• Lonely Hearts advert
• Egeus’ monologue
• Custody battle
• Presenting the fairies
• Two worlds
• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
• A miscellany of activities
• Character question game
• Hermia’s monologue
• Role play character cards
• Paired quotations for matching and sequencing
• Directing a scene
• Connect 12
• ‘The course of true love never did run smooth’
• Hexbusters
• Film trailer