Studying Scenes from Shakespeare

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Studying Scenes from Shakespeare

• Lesson 1

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Study Skills?

• Respond to a question
• Summarise
• Construct an argument
• Use quotations

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1. Respond to a question

• Do you like chocolate?
• What are the possible responses?
• This is a closed question

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1. Respond to a question

• Who is your favourite sportsman/woman?
• Closed question
• Why do you like him/her?
• Open question
• This is the kind of question used in
  examinations such as the Shakespeare Paper

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1. Respond to a question

• What is your favourite sportsman like?
• How might we start a response what does the
  question want?
• My favourite sportsman is I like him
  becauseHe does things like He says things like
  Basically, hes really

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1. Respond to a question

• Apply to a familiar text Once by Morris
  Gleitzman
• What is Felix like?
• What does the question want?

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1. Respond to a question

• Apply to an unfamiliar text Richard III
• ANNE Where is he?
• RICHARD Here. (She spits at him.) Why dost thou
  spit at me?
• ANNE Would it were mortal poison, for thy sake!
• RICHARD Never came poison from so sweet a
  place.
• ANNE Never hung poison on a fouler toad.
• Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.
• RICHARD Thine eyes, sweet lady, have infected
  mine.
• ANNE Would they were basilisks to strike thee
  dead!
• RICHARD I would they were, that I might die at
  once
• For now they kill me with a living death.
• What is Richard like?

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1. Respond to a question

• What is Richard like?
• What does the question want?
• Richard appears to be quite a crafty man in
  this scene. He is caring in some ways and acts
  like he is a victim. This could be because he
  wants something though, as we dont know why Anne
  hates him.

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1. Respond to a question

• How might Richard behave on stage at this point
  to get what he wants?
• What does the question want?
• In order to get what he wants, Richard could
  behave in a range of different ways in this
  scene. He is trying to make someone who hates him
  fall in love with him.
• At the start he could drop to his knees as she
  spits on him. This would make him look.

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2. Summarise

• It was early in the morning. The sun came up and
  fringed the landscape with silver and gold. The
  trees glittered and the mist hung waiting for
  further instructions. A dog barked and that was
  it, the day had begun for the village of
  Stavering.
• Becomes

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2. Summarise

• 6 weeks of your teacher talking, telling you
  what is happening, annotations, study guide
  notes
• Becomes a mixture of two grey boxes a few
  sentences.

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2. Summarise
In this section, Macbeth thinks about the
possibility of becoming King.
In this section, Macbeth talks about how he hates
being the King because he does not feel secure.
What happens in these scenes?
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1. and 2. Respond to the question and summarise

• How do we see different aspects of Macbeths
  character in these scenes?
• Opening paragraph

In this section, Macbeth thinks about the
possibility of becoming King.
In this section, Macbeth talks about how he hates
being the King because he does not feel secure.
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1. Respond to a question

• To what extent is Richard successful in
  persuasion?
• Richard is successful in some ways but fails in
  other in this scene. He succeeds in letting Anne
  know that he loves her and then blames her for
  him killing the King. But he fails because he is
  showing the audience his faults and they wont
  fall for it for the rest of the play.