Product Overview
This monthly handbook contains the following features:
- 4 Passages (one per week) for copywork/dictation practices
- Lessons on grammar, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, and literary devices
- Arrow Planner and Skills Tracker
- Weekly Reading Guide
- Literary Device and Writing Activity
- Discussion Questions
- Family Book Club Party Ideas
- Guidelines explaining copywork & dictation practices
- Literary Device: Allusion
Note
Four of the twenty-one stories in the book are covered in this Arrow: Romeo and Juliet (pages 205–222), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (pages 253–270), Much Ado About Nothing (pages 289–316), and Julius Caesar (pages 317–346). These stories showcase well many of the most common recurring literary devices that show up in Shakespeare’s works.
About the Book
Leon Garfield's Shakespeare Stories
How to introduce children to Shakespeare, not just to the stories behind the plays but to the richness of Shakespeare’s language and the depth of his characters: That’s the challenge that Leon Garfield, no slouch as a wordsmith himself, sets out to meet in his monumental and utterly absorbing Shakespeare Stories. Here twenty-one of the Bard’s...
