Ever since starting this homeschool journey a few years ago, I discovered Charlotte Mason. I began to read her books and she talked about doing Shakespeare with your children. I was so intimidated because I don't ever remember doing shakespeare during my school years so I had no idea were to begin! Until Leah Boden did a scope on how she does Shakespeare and she made it look so simple and beautiful. So I decided to dig in and go for it. (If you don't follow Leah on Periscope and go do so now! She has so much wisdom, specially in the Charlotte Mason method.)
A couple weeks ago we started reading a Midsummer Night's Dream from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children edited by E. Nesbitt. You can get it used on Amazon!
I didn't think my kids would be into it all! (I thought it was going to be a bunch of gibberish language that we wouldn't understand) I grabbed the chalkboard because I wanted to write all the main characters names on there for us to remember, and started reading reading the story. While reading we would draw arrows of who was in love, and all these obstacles that kept coming up in the story. Now they beg me to read shakespeare to them!
So if you don't know where to start watch Leah's scopes , there is a part 1 & part 2 so make sure you watch both. Also find out if they have any live performances at a park or somewhere near you and go and watch it! Even if you haven't read the stories/plays, you can watch it and then read the story!
Have you read Shakespeare?
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