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Shakespeare for all : an account of the RSA Shakespeare in schools project / edited by Maurice Gilmour.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Shakespeare: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drama in education.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Study and teaching (Secondary).
- Shakespeare, William.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Study and teaching (Primary).
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Study and teaching--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (162 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London, [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
- Summary:
- This book focuses on teaching Shakespeare to young pupils and deals with issues of interest to all educationalists. It raises questions about the general content of the primary curriculum while underlining the range of teaching strategies which are available to teachers wishing to convey complex ideas to children of all ages and abilities.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Participating Schools
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Background to the RSA Shakespeare Project
- 1 Shakespeare in the Primary School: Introduction
- 2 A Midsummer Night's Dream as Enjoyed by One Mixed-ability Class of 8-10-year-olds in a Small Village School
- 3 A Midsummer Night's Dream in a Multi-cultural Context
- 4 Bringing Shakespeare to Life through The Tempest
- AN INTRODUCTION
- THE BEGINNING
- THE ELVES
- MEETING PROSPERO
- WHO IS CALIBAN?
- PREPARING FOR THE PERFORMANCE
- WRITING THE SCRIPT
- THE PERFORMANCE
- CONCLUSION
- EXTRACTS FROM THE SCRIPT EVOLVED BY LADY JANE GREY PRIMARY SCHOOL FROM THE EXPLORATION OF THE TEMPEST
- 5 'Be not afeard' - Producing The Tempest with Juniors Frank Gallagher, Head Teacher, and teaching staff of Avenue Junior School
- CONCEPTION
- THE SCRIPT
- REHEARSALS
- MUSIC
- MOVEMENT AND MUSIC
- THE MASQUE
- COSTUMES
- STAGING, LIGHTING AND TECHNICAL
- SCENE PLAN FOR THE TEMPEST
- 6 The Shakespeare Project - A Whole-School Approach Mike Thompson, Head Teacher, and teaching staff of Kirby Muxloe Primary School
- INTRODUCTION
- LOWER AND UPPER JUNIORS
- 7 King Lear - Making Shakespeare Relevant
- PRELIMINARY IDEAS
- PRELIMINARY MEETING WITH ADVISORY TEACHER FOR DRAMA
- INTRODUCTORY SESSION
- SESSION TWO
- SESSION THREE
- SESSION FOUR
- CONTINUING TO WORK ON KING LEAR
- ACTING OUT THE PLAY
- EXTENDING THE EXPERIENCE
- PARTICULAR CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES RELATED TO THE EXPLORATION OF KING LEAR
- 8 The Casket Makers - The Merchant Of Venice - An Account of Advisory Work at Market Bosworth Primary School
- WHY CASKET MAKERS?
- FOCUS
- FRAME
- TENSION
- TASK
- TEXT
- OTHERS
- TEACHER IN ROLE
- CONVENTIONS
- 9 A Primary Teacher's View of the Project.
- 10 Keystage Theatre In Education -Macbeth For Primary Schools
- CHOICE OF PLAY
- VIOLENCE
- WITCHCRAFT
- THE TEXT
- THE STYLE OF PRODUCTION
- DESIGN
- FORMAL EVALUATION
- FOLLOW-UP WORK
- 11 Were the Aims Achieved? An Evaluation
- THE AIMS OF THE EVALUATION
- MAIN FINDINGS
- STAGES IN THE EVALUATION PROCESS
- AIM OF THE REPORT
- APPROACHES ADOPTED BY SCHOOLS
- Key Stage 1
- Key Stage 2
- THE FESTIVAL AND EXHIBITION
- THE IN-SERVICE DAY FOR TEACHERS FROM PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS
- THE PERFORMANCES
- The Keystage Theatre Performance
- LEARNING IN THE PROJECT
- What the children learned in the classroom
- Learning related to performance
- What the teachers learned
- Difficulties
- THE PROJECT AND SHAKESPEARE IN SCHOOLS
- 12 An RSA Assessment of the Wider Issues
- Appendix 1: Evaluation of Keystage Theatre's Production of Macbeth
- Appendix 2: Adapted Script of Macbeth
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 12, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 9781474247603
- 1474247601
- OCLC:
- 947129352
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