Work for Monday 5 November 2018

Kia ora
I am off sick today.  (We will finish the last of Shakespeare in Love tomorrow).  Here are our learning activities for Monday 5 November:
1. Silent reading (15 minutes)
2. Developing our own Shakespearian plays

Shakespeare was very good at taking stories and phrases from history and from other stories and turning them into something new (and usually better).  Today we are going to develop a plot and characters to make our knockoffs of the famous play called Macbeth by William Shakespeare.  This play has lots of drama, from weird predictions by a group of witches, to a woman encouraging her husband to kill the king, to guilt and madness. 

For this activity, you are encouraged to work in groups (up to five, three is best).  If you really want to write a play plan by yourself, you can, but it will be more fun as a shared activity.

1. Start off by taking the paragraph below, copying it and changing it for your own play:

A brave Scottish leader named Macbeth receives a message from a trio of witches predicting that one day he will become King of Scotland. This makes him hungry for power and, encouraged by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He then feels so guilty, and so sure that he will be caught, that he goes mad.

I have done a couple for you to see what I mean:
Here is one example:
A brave West Coaster named Tony Kokshoorn receives a message from a trio of greenies predicting that one day he will be prime minister of New Zealand.  This makes him hungry for power and, encouraged by the Grey District Council, Kokshoorn murders Jacinda Ardern and Eugenie Sage and becomes prime minister of New Zealand.  He then feels so guilty, and so sure that New Zealand will run out of coal after all, that he goes mad.

Here is another example:
A brave Grey High student named Malachi receives a message from a trio of primary school students predicting that one day he will be head boy.  This makes him hungry for power and, encouraged by Jono and Lochie and Matt, Malachi steals all the lollies from the Warehouse and distributes them to students at Grey High in a bid to win everyone's vote.  He then feels so guilty, and so sick from eating too many lollies, that he lies down under a tree and hides, and misses the key speeches for head boy and girl.

• Write your paragraph as a group, and then post it on your blog.  Each member can post their group paragraph on their blog.  
• Then it is time to make a poster advertising your play.  You need to give it a title and decide where it will be performed and when.  You can use found images, photos of your group, blood splatters, the paragraph itself.  You can then post your poster up on your blog (you will need to make your poster in google drawings, and then download it as a jpeg).  
• Once you have written your paragraph and made your poster, please leave a comment on my blog post (this one) with a link to your work.
• If you have finished all of this and are really happy with your work, you can read, or you can plan some more details of your own Shakespearian play.