Shakespeare in Three Steps

Hi AFthfulJrney,

Oh, boy, you will have to pray about that one.  I will give you my experience with owning the printed book, which includes the ebook for printing, and the Arkangel cd:

I’d always done Shakespeare with them on my own but last year was crazy with a move and I purchased the bundle and we used it just as it was laid out:  I used the printed book for myself, printed off the pages for each child’s reading as it came, and then we listened to the portion on the cd of MND.  Each lesson ended with the children begging for more but I did not give in 🙂  Once we’d done the whole play we watched a performance on dvd and my children added the cd to their collection of audio books.  It happily finds itself in regular rotation at bedtime and they are now known to recite lots of favorite lines by Nicholas Bottom and Puck, their favorite characters.  A few days ago we were invited by our neighbors to attend their grandson’s performance of MND at the end of his Shakespeare acting camp.  It was a fast-paced 45 minutes of the play with just portions of the main monologues with each role played by at least three different actors throughout so you really had to pay attention.  My kids were rolling with laughter and kept it all straight since they were familiar with the play, despite a plethora of actors (both boys and girls) for each part, with some lines being said hardly loud enough to be heard.

All in all, it was a rousing success and, had I not had SCM’s resource during such a challenging time, I’m not sure Shakespeare would have happened here last year and we would have missed a blessing.

Warmly,

Richele