Students were about to embark on their Shakesperience, and to introduce a variety of topics related to Shakespeare, his life, and works, I created a trivia game for my students. I told them that their success in the trivia game would directly correlate with their success on another game tomorrow.
Here's what I did:
1. Teams with the highest scores got additional minutes for a Scavenger Hunt throughout the school.
2. All of the clues were written in "Shakespearean language"--with a textual example, integrated properly, of course.
3. For example: The place you go to let your “candied tongue lick absurd pomp” (III.ii.50) Here, you may buy food during a tournament of men and quench your thirst and hunger.
4. Here are the time allowances I provided:
High Score: 2:00 lead time for the hunt
Next Score: 1:30
Next Score 1:00
Everyone else: released after the one minute was up
Ultimately, the times didn't matter all that much. The kids with the least amount of time won...they just did better with the clues. However--the gradual release time was super helpful in not having all them racing to the same spot at the same time.
In the end:
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