Super Shakespeare

For the last couple days, year 6 have been doing Literacy work on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. On the first day they were put into 2 groups and they acted out the first scene. In this they were split into Montagues and Capulets where they did the first fight between them. They also watched the beggining of the cartoon version and compared the book and the film together.

The next day was an active reading day where they all read the whole book and were given different activities to do. This included:

• Dilemma checkers
  
• Art critics


• Action retellers


• And more.

At the end of the lesson they showed the class all of the things that the groups had done in the lesson. The Dilemma checkers found 12 Dilemmas in the time that they had, and answered 10 of them. Some of the questions were:

• Should Tybalt have murdered Marcutio?


• Should the prince have banished Romeo from Verona?


• Should the priest have given Juliet the potion?


• Should Juliet and Paris have been betroved without Juliet's say so?
  
• And a lot more!!!