Adding Shakespeare to your homeschool studies, even in the younger years, can be very rewarding.  Not only was he the greatest playwright of all time, but his use of language to express ideas and thoughts are unparalleled, and every student should have the joy of experiencing at least some of his great works.

Following the ideas of Teaching the Classics, these notebooking pages can be used to explore the different elements of each play such as Characters, Setting, Plot, Climax, Resolution and Theme. There are also pages for students to note Literary Devices Shakespeare used.

There are too, of course, regular notebooking pages also for children to simply retell what the story was about.

These pages will make a beautiful Shakespeare Notebook that you can keep adding to over the years. These pages are very practical and my children are using them in their own studies of Shakespeare.

There is no curriculum included with these sets.  You can use the pages in the manner that you choose.  If you would like some help in teaching your child about the elements of a story, I highly recommend using Teaching the Classics. It provides ample practice for children to recognize story elements and literary devices.

There are also lots of extras to to make your notebook a little more interesting, such as dividers for comedies, tragedies and histories; also timeline pieces and copywork pages for some of Shakespeare's most famous quotes.