Monthly Archives: January 2017

Bard in the Classroom Reflection

(In this tableau scene created by my group, Hero is getting married, to someone who unexpected it to be her. There are many others that have just came back from war and are attending the ceremony.)

 

On January 11th-13th, we had a Bard on the Beach workshop come into our classroom, and do a three-day presentation, that contained lots of activities, and knowledge on Shakespeare. One thing that I really enjoyed about it was that we were not sitting and listening to a lesson the whole time. We were able to stand up and move around to do a variety of different activities. I learned a lot about the play “Much Ado About Nothing” which translates to English as “A lot of fretting about gossip.” Bard on the Beach explained that “Much Ado About Nothing” was about two people that are incredibly mean to each other and always insulting each other, actually love one another. “Much Ado About Nothing” Is a comedy play, written by Shakespeare. The town ends up finding out and tries to let both of them know that the other loves them. It helped me to understand more of Shakespeare’s writing and English skills that he had. My favourite activity that the presenters lead were the tableau scenes, they were fun to create and made us all work together and be creative, (seen in the picture below.) Another thing I learnt was that Shakespeare had 4 different play types Comedy, Tragedy, History, and Romance. Comedy included funny scenes and joke within the script. Tragedy included death, fighting, and most likely sadness. History contained of past events that happened and were historical. Romance was not particularly about love in Shakespeares writing it was more about fantasy and supernatural.