A Midsummer Night's Dream Quiz
Take this quiz to review basic plot points and facts about A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Teaching Resources
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An Active Introduction to A Midsummer Night's Dream
This is a fun first contact with the story of a magical midsummer night full of lost lovers and fairies. This introduction makes use of an easy drama technique that involves the entire class.
Creative Writing: Puck's Point-of-view Story
This writing prompt gives students the opportunity to write Puck's story.
EFL Snappy Shakespeare Script: A Midsummer Night's Dream
This reduced script tells a story using lines from the play to get students familiar with the material. Perfect for a 20-minute classroom production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Library & Archives
Here at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust we have the world’s largest publicly accessible library and archive devoted to William Shakespeare, the sources of his plays and their history on the stage.
Timeline – Shakespeare’s Life and Times
A one page visual representation of the major events in Shakespeare’s Life and Elizabethan England. Designed for printout on A3/Legal paper.
Annotating Macbeth
This three page resource walks students through how to annotate, what to look for, and provides examples of some annotated text.
Shakespeare Week
The Shakespeare Week website offers a huge variety of free educational resources for Key Stages 1 and 2 to download, adapt, and use across the curriculum.
EFL An Active Introduction to Macbeth
This is a fun first interaction with the story of the Scottish play. This introduction makes use of an easy drama technique called ‘whoosh’ that involves the entire class.
Espresso Shakespeare
This external website has been designed to help you make informed links between Shakespeare’s plays for classroom teaching. It includes play synopses with performance images, and extracts of key moments in the play as videos.
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