on the side: A WORKSHOP ON SHAKESPEARE'S "SEVEN AGES"

Workshop by Peter Dyer, Pilgrims, July 25th

pre-reading activities

Vocabulary

  • Collect vocabulary on stages of human life, e.g. puberty, old age...
  • Make a grid, e.g. like this:
  • infancy  /  childhood  /  teenage  /  young adult  /  middle age  /  old age  /  decrepitude
  • Collect associations for each stage on board -> use this stage to introduce new vocabulary
  • Add words from Shakespeare's text, e.g. mewling, puking, satchel, woeful...

Content

Put up quotes about different 'ages' on the walls and have students pick + explain one. Examples:



while-reading activities

 Read the text silently and mark the different stages.

  • Go through individual descriptions, analyze images and explain any difficult content/vocabulary.
  • Practice single words and phrases.
  • Have students prepare a reading (groups of 7). Presentations.

possible follow-ups

  • Discuss how you would put this on stage (props, scenery, movements, sounds...).
  • Show Benedict Cumberbach 7 ages of man.
  • Write a modern version.
  • Read Sonnet 18.
  • Do Rinvolucri's activity on the poem 'an old man' as shown here
 

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