Introducing Shakespeare

Immerse your class in murder, mayhem, monsters and magic with our exciting Shakespeare pack for years 5 and 6.

Comprising five units on Macbeth and five on The Tempest, the pack is crammed with a range of teaching ideas and activities to introduce your upper KS2 classes to the Bard and bring two of his most famous plays to life.

What’s included?
49 supporting resources
Includes reading comprehensions, GPS challenges, writing tasks, role-play and cross-curricular extension activities for each session
Links to the curriculum

What’s inside?

Finding your way around the curriculum pack (page 4)

Curriculum coverage and mapping (pages 5-8)

Session 1: Macbeth – Witches (pages 9-17)
Resource - Macbeth: The witches’ opening speech
Resource - Exploring character through simile
Resource - If I met the witches…
Resource - Witch research

Session 2: Macbeth – The murder of King Duncan (pages 18-32)
Resource - Pin the comma on the sentence
Resource - Macbeth – Relative clauses
Resource - Relative clause dice game
Resource - Conversation scenario cards
Resource - Conversation scenario cards: Extension version

Session 3: Macbeth – CSI Banquo (pages 33-47)
Resource - Murderous modal verbs
Resource - Macbeth’s dagger
Resource - Crime scene investigation
Resource - Crime scene report
Resource - Tragic strip: Macbeth Act IV, Scene IV
Resource - Character list
Resource - Dinner party places

Session 4: Macbeth – Double, double, toil and trouble (pages 48-61)
Resource - Fun with fronted adverbials: Dice game
Resource - Something wicked this way comes
Resource - Double, double, toil and trouble
Resource - Recipe for a witch’s charm
Resource - Predictive text
Resource - Medieval medicine
Resource - Medieval medicine: Suggested websites and answers

Session 5: Macbeth – The battle (pages 62-70)
Resource - Five senses character sheet
Resource - The king’s speech – plan
Resource - The king’s speech – speech scaffold
Resource - Medieval weaponry research

Session 6: The Tempest – The storm (pages 71-69)
Resource - The Tempest: Act I, Scene I (extract)
Resource - Dictionary corner: The Tempest
Resource - Castaway comprehension

Session 7: The Tempest – Full fathom five (pages 80-89)
Resource - Ariel’s entrance
Resource - Noun phrase hunters
Resource - Full fathom five
Resource - Famous Quotes from Shakespeare

Session 8: The Tempest – Comedy and confusion (pages 90-99)
Resource - Island rules: Comprehension
Resource - ‘If I were king of this isle…’
Resource - Stephano, Trinculo and Caliban: Act II, Scene II
Resource - Seafaring research

Session 9: The Tempest – Magic and monsters (pages 100-106)
Resource - Alonso’s guilt

Session 10: The Tempest – Magical Island
Resource - Blurb template
Resource - Magical island story: Planning sheet
Resource - Designing a mask – The Tempest