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Saturday, July 12, 2025

The Second Shakespeare Unit (ruffs, Globe Theater, sonnets)

We had an enormous Shakespeare Unit to fill out the school year after we got home from Quebec at Christmastime. It was super fun to revisit our favorite writings and plays. I don't know why I'm bothering to post these unit organization screenshots, because you can't even read the tiny writing, and the links aren't clickable, but I don't know how to put them in a more useful format here. At least this will help me remember a broad overview of things we talked about and did!

Here is a pretty old Pinterest Board from last time we did this (hopefully some of the links still work?):


And some assorted pictures from activity days during this unit. Making ruffs (we did this years ago too):
Gus was inspired by his ruff and the "clothing in the Elizabethan Era" videos that we watched, and ended up making a whole elaborate costume for himself.
He looks just as grand as Queen Elizabeth!
Hmm, not sure why this is in this batch of pictures? cute, though :)

Here are the children working on making paper models of the Globe Theater:   https://www.papertoys.com/globe.htm

Goldie's, maybe?
Ziggy's (look at all the people inside!)
Junie's

Talking about Macbeth and making "witch's brew" with dry ice:
Eek, a scary witch!

Some wonderful sonnet-writing practice:
Ziggy's less formal interpretation :)
Teddy's perfectly-scanning sonnet

Inside Ziggy's "life size" globe theater (complete with watching animal audience):

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