Half Term Homework: Recreations task

Part 1: Take the title of or a line from a Shakespeare play and use it as the title for your own piece of writing.

It is not necessary to keep the same characters in exploring similar themes, relationships, ideas. For example: A soliloquy exploring mixed feelings could become a modern dramatic monologue; Capulet's verbal assault on his ungrateful daughter could become the basis of a short story about parent / child relationships; The opening scenes of Macbeth could become the opening of a modern story based on similar events and characters.

Possible titles for your story:
(Not including the most famous plays that you mentioned in class)

• A Love's Laboured Lost
• A Winter's Tale
• Twelfth Night
• Much Ado About Nothing
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• The Taming of the Shrew
• Measure for Measure

Famous lines from Shakespeare that could be used as the title of your story

• A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
• Something wicked this way comes
• A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse
• To be, or not to be, that is the question
• All the world's a stage
• Now is the winter of our discontent
• We are stuff that dreams are made of
• If music be the food of love play on
• Midsummer madness
• What light through yonder window breaks?

Part 2: Once enough people have posted up their homework, I would like you to post a comment on their story. Tell them a couple of specific things you liked about their work - nothing too vague - and then if you can think of something, suggest one way to improve. Very similarly to the Three ticks and a wish idea you may have seen in other subjects.

DEADLINE: First lesson back after Half Term.

Any problems, comment on this post and will get back to you.
Mr H