WebQuest
ROMEO AND JULIET: A WEBQUEST ON SHAKESPEARE AND ELIZABETHAN THEATRE
Process
To do this WebQuest you have to follow these instructions very carefully:
- Your teacher will divide the class into five groups of four, eight and six students (group A: 4 students, group B: 8 students, group C: 4 students, group D: 4 students, group E: 6 students). Each group will work on an important aspect related to Romeo and Juliet.
- Within each group, you will work in pairs. Each pair will have a role: a pair of biographers, a pair of work researchers, four pairs of historians, a pair of architects, a pair of literary critics, two pairs of travel agents and the company of actors.
If you don't understand something or if you need help, you can use either the dictionaries and grammar references available at your school library or the online ones in the Internet.
These are the activities you have to do:
ACTIVITY 1. RESEARCH WORK
Group A: William Shakespeare
Biographers: Download and complete the biographers' report with the information you find in the following web sites and hand it in to your teacher:
- Shakespeare on line
- Shakespeare's life and times
- William Shakespeare's information site map
- William Shakespeare's biography
- William Shakespeare in wikipedia
Work researchers: Download and complete the work researchers' report with the information you find in the following web sites and hand it in to your teacher:
- The complete works of William Shakespeare
- William Shakespeare's information site map
- The first Folio
- William Shakespeare's in wikipedia
Group B: Elizabethan period
Period historians: Download and complete the period report with the information you find in the following web sites and hand it in to your teacher:
- Elizabethan Age
- Elizabethan period
Place historians: Download and complete the place report with the information you find in the following web sites and hand it in to your teacher:
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Elizabethan Laws
- Religion in Elizabethan England
Everyday life historians: Download and complete the daily activities report with the information you find in the following web sites and hand it in to your teacher:
- Elizabethan life
Celebrity journalists: Download and complete the famous people report with the information you find in the following web sites and hand it to your teacher:
- Famous Elizabethans
Group C: Elizabethan theatre
Architects: Download and complete the building report with the information you find in the following web sites and hand it in to your teacher:
- Elizabethan playhouses
- Theatre facts
- Map and sites
- The Globe
- Theatre aspects
Literary critics: Download and complete the critics' report with the information you find in the following web sites and hand it in to your teacher:
- Elizabethan drama
- Elizabethan actors
- Costumes
Group D: Representative places
London travel agents: Download and complete the travel agents' report with the information you find in the following web sites and hand it in to your teacher:
- Visit London
- London
- Things to do in London
- London in wikipedia
Stratford-upon-Avon travel agents: Download and complete the travel agents' report with the information you find in the following web sites and hand it in to your teacher:
- Welcome to Stratford-upon-Avon
- Visit Stratford-upon-Avon
- Stratford-upon-Avon in wikipedia
Group E: Romeo and Juliet: A new end
Actors and actresses: Visit the following web sites and learn about the steps you should take in the process of writing a play:
- Seven easy steps
- How to write a script
- How to write a play script
- How to write a play
ACTIVITY 2. COMPOSITIONS AND SCRIPT
Step 1 Biographers: Write a composition with the information you have collected in your report.
Work researchers: Write a composition with the information you have collected in your report.
Travel agents: Write a composition with the information you have collected in your report.
Historians: Write a composition with the information you have collected in your report.
Journalists: Write a composition with the information you have collected in your report.
Architects: Write a composition with the information you have collected in your report.
Literary critics: Write a composition with the information you have collected in your report.
Travel agents: Write a composition with the information you have collected in your report.
Actors: Write the script of your new act.
Step 2 - If you are not an actor, work with all the members of your group and join your compositions. Add all the necessary linkers and make the changes you need so that the result is a unified text with the necessary paragraphs.
Hand in the composition to your teacher.
- If you are an actor or actress, work with the rest of the company and practise the pronunciation.
ACTIVITY 3. POSTERS AND PUBLICITY BOARD
Work with all the members of your group and prepare a poster on the aspect you have studied. Remember to show texts and pictures and include information of all the members of the group.
The company of actors will prepare the publicity board for their play.
ACTIVITY 4a. ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Speaking Present your work to your classmates. Show them your poster and speak in English about your findings.
Listening Listen to your classmates and fill in the co-evaluation sheet.
ACTIVITY 4b. PLAY PERFORMANCE
Actors Perform your play in front of the audience.
Audience Enjoy the play and fill in the co-evaluation sheet.
ACTIVITY 5. POSTERS DISPLAY
Stick the posters on the walls of your school and have an attentive look at all of them.
ACTIVITY 6. A QUIZ
What have you learnt? Click here and answer a questionnaire on Shakespeare. Then, go to the quiz section, do it and check your knowledge. Then, download and complete the self-assessment sheet to reflect on your own learning.
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Description: Building Report: This is the report that the architects should complete.
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Description: Famous People Report: This is the report that celebrity journalists should complete.
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Description: Work Researchers' Report: This is the report that the work researchers should complete.
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Description: Critics' Report: This is the report that the literary critics should complete.
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Description: Period Report: This is the report that period historians should complete.
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Description: Self-assessment Sheet: This is the self-assessment sheet that the students will complete in order to evaluate the contents that they have learnt.
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Description: Place Report: This is the report that place historians should complete.
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Description: Biographers' Report: This is the report that the biographers should complete.
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Description: Daily activities report: This is the report that everyday life historians should complete.
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Description: Travel Agents' Report: This is the report that the travel agents should complete.
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Description: Co-evaluation Sheet: This is the co-evaluation sheet that the students will complete to assess their classmates' work.
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