Learn to love Shakespeare alongside your kids.
Learn to love Shakespeare alongside your kids. Access the lesson plans and memory work printables I’ve developed for more than 8 Shakespeare plays. Why reinvent the wheel?
Lesson Plans for Shakespeare’s The Tempest
The Tempest is a story with betrayal, revenge, reconciliation, and devotion. It has something for everyone: slap-stick humor, violent men & monsters, friendly sprites, and a fairy-tale island setting where forgiveness and keeping one’s word wins out in the end despite long odds. Whether you introduce this story by picture book, movie, or reading the…
Lesson Plans for Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
We’re in the midst of studying Julius Caesar this year. The boys are happy to be doing a play that has nothing to do with marriage or love, but rather with stern and noble Romans. Shakespeare doesn’t need to be intimidating or complicated. It’s really just about enjoying a good story together, as with any…
Shakespeare for Kids: Hamlet Lesson Plans
We studied Hamlet in our homeschool last year – over 6 months ago – and the quotes still linger as part of our family culture. Last month I was headed out the door with friends to spend a weekend away (hooray!) and the kids all started waving limply and wailing, “Adieu! Adieu! Remember me!” Their…
Lesson Plans for Shakespeare’s Henry V
Henry the Fifth is one of my favorite Shakespeare plays. I love medieval England and the premodern English monarchy, so its setting and themes are right up my alley. Henry V is a great play to do with those who think Shakespeare is boring or only about tangled love stories. If you have a child…
Shakespeare for Kids: Taming of the Shrew
Last month I wrote about a 5-step plan for introducing Shakespeare to my kids. It’s what we did last year with three plays and what we’re doing again this year. Just today I heard my 9-year-old wandering around the house muttering, “murder most foul” and “O, my prophetic soul” to himself – Shakespeare has great…
Shakespeare for Kids: An Easy 5-Step Plan
Shakespeare can be an intimidating subject to introduce. Isn’t the language archaic and the doesn’t high quality mean high difficulty? Actually, the language isn’t that difficult when it’s read (that is, interpreted) by an experienced reader. The profound themes within plots were created not as pure art, but also to entertain the masses. Shakespeare was…
When social media lives & real lives collide: the new landscape of manners
I have many good and even close friends I first met on the internet. Back in the day when being online was weird, I had a blog. I also read blogs. I remember the day where Brandy Vencel, whose blog I read and with whom I’d had countless conversations in comment threads, sent me a…
Our Homeschool Plans for 2020-2021
All my procrastination this year has been rewarded except in one instance: school planning. Turns out that still had to happen because our school year was not affected by COVID-19. We’re just continuing to do our thing. As usual our school year began the first Monday after the 4th of July. This year I will…
52 Ways to Organize Your Attitude
When I was a young wife and mother, I read all the organization books, the productivity books, the godly family living books. I learned a lot, and a lot of it was good. But it took me about 10 years of trying to put it into practice that I finally realized I was never going…