Shakespeare Plays

This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate the structure and format of different scenes extracted from plays by William Shakespeare to use for drama performances. The class can suggest how to adapt and change scenes to illustrate events and characters actions in plays.

Macbeth Scene
Explore how to adapt and perform a soliloquy taken from the play of Macbeth written by Shakespeare to illustrate a character’s thoughts and emotions about an event in the story
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Rounding Hundreds
Explain and model how to round some different numbers to the nearest hundred based on the place values of the digits in each number
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Rounding Tens
Identify and record how to round some different numbers to the nearest ten based on the place values of the digits in each number
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Classic Animal Stories
Investigate the structure and content of classic works of fiction by significant authors with animals as the main characters
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Cities, Towns and Villages
Research and present the history of a range of different buildings and people that are part of the local community using a school exhibition