Begin Your Shakespeare Portfolio

Print these sheets for your Shakespeare Portfolio:

Quiz --- To begin your study print out this quiz and go through it orally with your student then place inside your Shakespeare Portfolio.

Classification of Shakespeare's Plays --- go over the list and discuss with your student the 3 Classifications (Comedies/ Histories/ Tragedies).  This should be pretty self-explanatory for your student to understand.

Shakespeare's Houses --- Browse this site with your student and tour Shakespeare's houses and gardens.  If your library has a copy of Shakespeare Country by Howard Loxton it's an outstanding pictorial supplement for this study and gives you a real "inside view" into Shakespeare's world.  If your library doesn't have it, I have seen several cheap copies on the web.

Here is the fun part. Go to these two sites: Phrases from Shakespeare and Shakespeare Quotes.  My students enjoyed hearing some familiar quotes that Shakespeare wrote or used in his plays and we use everyday but never knew it.  Interesting observation: "Shakespeare contributed more phrases to the English language than the Bible or any other work - and many more than any other individual."

Print out this 5-sheet PDF file and give to your student with a highlighter pen.  Have them highlight all the phrases they are familiar with.  Some might surprise you:

• All that glitters is not gold
• As dead as a doornail
• Eaten out of house and home (all parents with teenagers recite this one)
• Fie, Foh, and Fum, I smell the blood of a British man (and you thought the Giant in Jack and the Beanstalk said that)
• Good riddance
• His beard was a white as snow (And we all gave Clement Moore and St. Nick credit for that one)
• In a pickle
• In stitches
• In the twinkling of an eye
• Like the Dickens
• Love is blind (I heard someone say this today)
• Make your hair stand on end
• Neither a borrow or lender be
• Too much of a good thing

And so many more!  Go see how many you're familiar with.  Have fun!

Comments

[Carole in Wales]

Thanks, Cay! This will surely make our unti come alive.