The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare complete teaching pack, featuring over 18 lessons, a knowledge organiser and a scheme of work document. Ideal for GCSE classes and adaptable for all exam boards (AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas, OCR). Includes context embedded throughout, key words, adaptive learning strategies, support sheets for lower ability students, suitably challenging activities to stretch the most able, model paragraphs, scaffolds, success criteria, detailed teacher and student notes and more! Currently includes: 1) Act 1 Scene 1 introduction 2) Act 1 Scene 2 Portia and the patriarchal society 3) Act 1 Scene 3 Shylock and antisemitism in Elizabethan England 4) Act 2 Scenes 1 and 2 Morocco, Portia; Launcelot, Old Gobbo and comic characters 5) Act 2 Scenes 3 and 4: Jessica, Launcelot, Lorenzo, Shylock 6) Act 2 Scenes 5 and 6: Jessica, Launcelot, Lorenzo, Shylock 7) Act 2 Scenes 7 and 8: Morocco, Portia, Shylock 8) Act 2 Scene 9: Portia, Arragon, evaluating characters 9) Act 3 Scene 1: Shylock's famous speech and language analysis 10) Act 3 Scenes 1 and 2: Shylock and Tubal, Bassanio, Portia and the caskets 11) Act 3 Scene 2 (and introducing Act 3 Scene 3): Bassanio, Portia, Antonio, Shylock 12) Act 3 Scenes 3 and 4 (Shylock, Antonio, Portia, genre) 13) Act 3 Scenes 4 and 5 (Portia, Launcelot, Lorenzo, Jessica) 14) Act 4 Scene 1 (Antonio's court case part 1 - Shylock's arguments, the arrival of Nerissa) 15) Act 4 Scene 1 (Antonio's court case part 2 - Portia's arrival and the plot twist) 16) Act 4 Scene 1 (Portia's legal arguments and Shylock's declining fortunes) 17) Act 4 Scene 2 and Act 5 Scene 1 (Jessica and Lorenzo, Portia's return to Belmont - the importance of music) 18) Act 5 Scene 1 - the ending of the play (genre, conventions, endings) 19) Knowledge organiser (plot, characters, themes, quotes, structure, genre, historical context) - perfect for revision 20) Scheme of work document