The Tempest teaching pack

Last updated: 15/11/2023
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Magic, mystery, comedy and confusion! Discover our six-week teaching pack for The Tempest, filled with a mix of analytical and drama activities for KS3 students.

This thorough and detailed pack will guide you and your students through key scenes, focusing on themes, characters and language.

What's included?

  • an assessment objective map
  • lesson plans and ideas along with tailor-made resources.

What's inside?

Introduction (page 1)

Route through – week one: Performing Act 1 Scene 1 (pages 2-3)

Route through – week two: Act 1 Scene 2 – the set section with question boxes (pages 4-5)

Route through – week three: Act 1 Scence 2 plus Act 2 (pages 6-7)

Route through – week four: Act 3 (pages 8-9)

Route through – week five: Act 4 (pages 11-12)

Route through – week six: Act 5 and Epilogue (pages 13-14)

Starters, plenaries and creative activities

Resources

  • Order the events
  • Creating a soundtrack
  • Design your own island
  • Here comes Caliban
  • Match the quotation to its translation – Act 1 Scene 2
  • Act 1 Scene 2: Prospero, a quick character study
  • Caliban – victim or villain?
  • Act 1 quiz
  • Same story, different version
  • Act 1 Scene 2 – Prospero and his servants
  • Miranda’s agony aunt letter
  • Act 1 Scene 2 wordsearch
  • Love on the cards
  • Act 1 Scene 2 quotation quest
  • Masks
  • Act 3 Scene 2 picture quest characters and quotations
  • Act 3 Scene 2 bingo
  • Sample question on Act 3 Scene 2 with model paragraphs
  • Caliban’s language sort cards
  • Act 3 Scene 2 – true or false?
  • Act 3 Scene 2 quote quest: who said what?
  • Character PEE sheet – Act 3 Scene 2
  • Act 3 Scene 2 wordsearch
  • Producing poetry from ‘crunched’ text
  • Wish you were here
  • Possible essay questions Act 1 Scene 2
  • Act 4 Scene 1 Q&A
  • Act 4 Scene 1 quote quest
  • Explore Act 4 Scene 1
  • Comparing Caliban and Prospero’s speeches (Act3 Scene 2 and Act 4 Scene 1)
  • Snakes and ladders template
  • Events leading up to Act 5 Scene 1
  • Revise the plot of Act 5 Scene 1
  • Match the quotation to its translation
  • Analysing language in Act 5 Scene 1
  • Bring the characters to life!
  • Bullseye template
  • Pyramid plenary template
  • A cloze for each act
  • Stand up if …
  • Boggle
  • Tempest Taboo!
  • Debate!

This example shows suggested main activities for the second week in the teaching pack which looks at Act 1 Scene 2 of The Tempest.

Annotate the text:

Use Act 1 Scene 2 - the set section with question boxes (5923) for this.  As well as the status game starter activity above, the resource contains the text of lines 189 – 321, plus handy question box outs in which students can write their responses.

Prospero and Ariel quotation match:

Explore the characters of Prospero and Ariel at this point in the play by matching the quotation to the question in Act 1 Scene 2 matching activity (5652)

Differentiation: Omit the quotations for more able students and ask them to find their own quotations.

It’s all about Prospero:

Act 1 Scene 2: Prospero, a quick character study (6036) explores aspects of Prospero’s character in this scene.  Students match each quotation to the appropriate description and then add another one of their own. 

Once completed they could show what they have learned about Prospero by working in pairs to ‘sculpt’ a statue (one student moulds the other) that shows an aspect of Prospero’s character.

Differentiation: vary the amount of information supplied by deleting qualities or quotations to suit your students.

Caliban: Victim or villain?

The resource Caliban – victim or villain? (22910) includes the extract and callout boxes with prompt questions to encourage students to explore their attitude to Caliban and track how it might change throughout the scene. 

Differentiation: You could simplify the task by using the table of quotations at the end of this resource, or by simply asking students to use coloured highlighters to show whether phrases suggest Caliban is a victim or a villain.  

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Absolutely loved this pack. Full of variety, analysis, tasks easy enough to differentiate and something for all the students. Really helpful and highly recommended.

Jackie Jones

15/02/2021

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10/01/2021

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22/05/2020

Great one ..Thankyou

02/10/2019

Absolutely loved this pack. Full of variety, analysis, tasks easy enough to differentiate and something for all the students. Really helpful and highly recommended.

Jackie Jones

15/02/2021

5

10/01/2021

5

22/05/2020

Great one ..Thankyou

02/10/2019

Great one ..Thankyou

02/10/2019

5

30/07/2018

Awesome resource - Thank you so much!

07/10/2017

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