'Hamlet' webinar
The ‘shownotes’ for my webinar for teachers on revising Hamlet leading up to the Leaving Certificate. Via Tralee Education Support Centre, evening of Thursday 9th November 2023.
On the mistaken idea of ‘rote learning’ in Leaving Certificate English.
‘Evidence Snacks’ from Peps Mccrea, and last week’s one on ‘meaningful learning’.
Notes on Gabriel Josipovici’s book Hamlet: Fold on Fold.
The Learning Scientists: videos and downloadable posters.
Quizlet flashcards for all 5 Acts of Macbeth. And 97 quotations all together.
Quotation retrieval grids: template in Word. An explanation using Macbeth.
Sequence grids templates in Word. An explanation of the process using Hamlet. Plus a recent post on extending this to revising individual characters (Gertrude, Ophelia, Claudius).
Word template for sequence 1 (key moments and associated quotations).
Word template for sequence 2 (some sections empty for testing).
Word template for sequence 3 (reverse-engineer key moments from significant quotations).
Swiss Army Knife (exploding) quotations, using a statement by Lady Macbeth.
Brain Dump: A small strategy with a big impact by Pooja K. Agarwal from Retrieval Practice: Unleash the Science of Learning.
Higher Level literature self-assessment document.
Audio recording (Kenneth Branagh production, 1993).
The ‘Hamlet’ podcast with Conor Hanratty.
Emma Smith podcast. And my Notes on the Hamlet chapter in her book This is Shakespeare.
Review of Zoe Enser’s Bringing Forth the Bard: a guide to teaching Shakespeare in the English classroom.
Review of Scott Newstok’s How to Think like Shakespeare: lessons from a Renaissance Education.
