This post is dedicated to videos and links to useful resources to help check student understanding about the storyline of The Tempest. There are short youtube video clips about the summary of the story, a summary of the plot by BBC that's crafted really well for use in the classroom and a few Kahoot! quiz links that are engaging and at the same time help reinforce the storyline for our students.
Watch it!
Here are a couple of short, succinct videos having read the book together as a class. These short videos can be quick re-caps and make clear the storyline in case a student or two get lost in the sea of Shakespearean language (pun intended).
Time permitting (though I really doubt it), we can show The Tempest. Many plays have been filmed and put on youtube (that said, the quality isn't superb). We could choose snippets from the film.
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| DVD film of The Tempest |
Plot it!
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| The Tempest Plot Summary by BBC Bitesize |
There are many useful websites and multimedia resources that can be found on the web. BBC is one such resource I have come to find useful as a teacher - be it in a primary or secondary classroom. And fortunately, they happen to have a detailed plot summary that is accompanied by modern English text, videos, quizzes and revision on The Tempest! This really well-done site takes students step by step through the play, helping them to identify key plot points.
Quiz it!
There are at least twenty Tempest quizzes on Kahoot! As a teacher, we could even make one for our students and asking specific questions within the quizzes that may relate to the assignment that we are also about to give them just to check the students' understanding of both the story and our instructions.
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| Using ahoot! is a more engaging way of comprehension. |
Kahoot! is a very useful quiz website that does quizzes in an engaging way. It allows for students to log on to Kahoot.it using their own laptops or handheld devices, and partake in the quiz together as a class. It collates and results and sends the grades to teacher in an excel sheet report as well.
I've scrolled through the numerous quizzes on The Tempest on the kahoot site and have narrowed it down to this particular quiz that I thought is great for the students who have just completed reading the book. Instead of doing a comprehension worksheet, this is definitely a more engaging way for students.
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| The Tempest Quiz on Kahoot!- Check student comprehension |