Journey Into Elizabeth I's England

1. Students will be placed into groups of three.

2. Students will be given TWO days to research an assigned Elizabethan topic. Students must provide a works cited page to accompany their presentations.

3. After the allotted time, student groups will present their Elizabethan topic.

TOPICS INCLUDE: Elizabethan Fashion for Women, Elizabethan fashion for Men, Elizabethan Dining, meals, cooking, and eating, Elizabethan Theater, including The Globe, Elizabethan forms of entertainment other than theater, Life in Stratford-upon-Avon (Shakespeare's birthplace), Queen Elizabeth I, Religion in Elizabeth's England, Elizabethan homes and architecture, Education during the Elizabethan Era, Elizabethan composers and musical selections, Elizabethan artists and famous works, and Elizabethan authors and their works

4. Using MANY different modes of technology, students will create a Key Note Presentation to share with the class.

EXAMPLES: For fashion, students took photos, using their computers, of a classmate. Then, using photoshop, they placed his face with the Elizabethan Fashion for Men. The students went wild for this presentation.

The Globe group took us to The Globe in London sing Google Earth

Pod Casting can be used to Sample Elizabethan Music.

Several students, using internet sites, pulled and created Elizabethan recipes.

We had hoped to hook up via the computer with a school group in London in order to learn more authentic information about the area and the Globe. However, a group matching our description did not exist. We are, though, still in the process of working this experience out. Then, we could use the digital cameras to take pictures of ourselves to scan into the computer for our London friends.

5. Students present projects and give their classmates a feel for what Elizabethan life may have been like. In my opinion, "taking students to Elizabethan England" helps them to better understand the customs and time period of the play.

Before we start our reading, I actually show them via Google Earth Verona, the setting for ROMEO and JULIET (in Italy) and Mantua, Romeo's place of exile, also in Italy.

Technology is a tremendous tool for bringing education to life. Thank you for considering my lesson plan. Dennie N. Boltz