Reply To: Research Shakespeare’s Life – Help with a research question

[Rachel Huskisson Participant]

Hi all,

Thanks for the input, it’s great to get some other thoughts on this! So, a bit more context. It is a year 8 project that runs over 4/5 weeks in the library with each weekly lesson being 35 mins. What has been done previously is work sheets given out with questions about Shakespeares life, simple short answers. They have to use the books to look up the answers. There also seems to be a sheet on looking at the Globe theatre. There is a page of links which I think some are out of date now. When I asked the head of English what the learning objectives are, she just said background context about Shakespeare so not much to go on. The plays they are studying are either Taming of the Shrew or Merchant of Venice depending on their teachers preference.  I did briefly speak to one of the teachers today and she said finding out about the British Jews (merchant of venice group) would be helpful.

Hope this helps!

Thanks,

Rachel