Shakespeare SATs Preparation: Richard III

Contents

Part 1: Introduction and background

• Who was Shakespeare?
• Shakespeare’s language
• The plot of the play
• The SATs examination

Part 2: Studying the SATS scenes

• Act 1, scene 1
• Unit 1: Staging Act 1, scene 1
• Unit 2: Richard’s character - part 1 lines 1–30
• Unit 3: The relationship between Richard and Clarence
• Unit 4: Language
• Act 3, scene 7
• Unit 5: Staging the scene
• Unit 6: The characters
• Unit 7: Language

Part 3: Practical ideas for working on the text

Part 4: Getting to know the whole play

• The characters
• The setting
• Attitudes of the time
• More about Shakespeare’s language
• The play today – modern attitudes to historical events

Part 5: Exam preparation

• Succeeding in the SATs paper
• Planning your writing
• Using the text
• Moving up the levels

Teachers’ notes and answers

Further information

Part 1 –

• provides information and activities that put the prescribed scenes for 2006 in context
• gives pupils an overall understanding of the plot and style of the play

Part 2 –

• Gives commentaries and activities on the prescribed scenes for 2006
• Gives a variety of activities relating to the play and to English in a wider context.

Parts 3 and 4 –

• Focus on the whole text

Part 5 –

• covers exam technique
• leads pupils though the process of writing exam essays on the set scenes
• shows how to do better in the exam.

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Length: 48 pp

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