Shakespeare Webquest

Your task is to introduce Shakespeare to people who know nothing about him. Remember to include pictures, diagrams, sub-headings and bullet points to make your information easy to read and understand.

You are to use the following questions and the listed web-sites.

Shakespeare’s life:

*Find out as much as you can about William Shakespeare. Begin with the points below:

* Where he and when he was born?

* His family?

* When he died and where he died?

* His wife?

Shakespeare’s works:

*Find out about the plays and poems that William Shakespeare wrote. Begin with the points below:

• How many plays did he write?

• How were his plays received at the time?

• Name five of the plays Shakespeare wrote.

• How were the plays performed?

• Where were they performed?

• What else did he write?

Shakespeare’s times:

*Find out about what life was like in England when Shakespeare was alive.

*The Globe Theatre

*Find a picture or diagram of The Globe Theatre and add this to your information.

WEB SITES TO VISIT ON YOUR QUEST

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/

http://www.rdg.ac.uk/globe/

http://www.ulen.com/shakespeare/

http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/

http://www.shakespeare-etc.org/

http://www.stratford-upon-avon.co.uk/soawshst.htm

Assessing Miss Leeson and the Femininity Unit

Hi girls,

I am hoping to get some feedback from you regarding the unit that we have been studying and also some general feedback to help me further develop my teaching style. If you could copy the questions below into a word document, fill them out and then print it off to give back to me I would be greatly appreciative.

You can put your name on it if you wish, or it can be anonymous - it is up to you :)

Thanks,

Miss Leeson.


Feedback regarding unit on femininity:

1.What were you expecting when we first started this unit?

2. Did the unit develop the way you were expecting?

3. What elements of the unit, if any, did you enjoy the most and why?

4. What elements of the unit did you enjoy the least and why?

5. Do you think that this is a useful unit to study in Year 10, why/why not?

6. Can you provide any suggestions as to how we could improve this unit for future Year 10 groups?

General Feedback:

1. Has the use of Blackboard and the class blog helped you so far this year in finding information, etc?

2. With regards to my teaching style/method what am I doing that you would like to see continue?

3. What am I doing that you think I could improve upon?

4. Lastly, so that I can plan for next term, are there any things that you are concerned about regarding Year 11 English for which I can help you feel better prepared?