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Here you will find a list of resources to support the thematic teaching of Easter in your English class. There are links to comprehensions, word searches, crosswords and creative writing activities. There is also a video of an Easter Cartoon that can be used to base oral langue activities around.

Here you will find presentations, videos and resources for Pancake Tuesday. There are resources for visual arts, SPHE, religious education, Gaeilge, English, maths and music.

Here are videos and presentations to support the teaching the theme of Pancake Tuesday in your English lessons.

This is a presentation about the elements of a recipe. At the end of the presentation there is an article from Irish Newspaper Archives. The article is a pancake recipe from the Irish Independent 20 February 1914. The class are asked to rewrite this article in the correct recipe format.

UCD Digital Library has a video of "Michael Longley reading his poem 'Badger'. The poem is a prescribed poem on the following; - Leaving Certificate Ordinary Level English 2017.

William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' is on the 2017 prescribed texts for the Leaving Certificate English examination.
At Higher Level, Shakespeare must be one of the texts chosen.
At Ordinary Level, the Shakespeare play is optional.

Scoilnet has collected resources from the following external websites within the categories below:

The National Theater has the following five videos on their website which can be watched. (Registration is optional)
1. Hamlet, a character study
2. Truth and performance in Hamlet
3. Designing Hamlet
4. Voice work on ‘O what a noble mind…’​​
Downloadable documents in PDF form are available on the following topics:
1. Contrasting Hamlet’s soliloquies
2. Theatre craft in the play within the play
3. Rewriting Ophelia’s soliloquy
4. Truth and performance in the play within the play​

This is a presentation about the history of the Six Nations Rugby Championship. No knowledge of the Six Nations Rugby Championship is required to use this presentation in the classroom. While it is predominately a history presentation there is integration with other subjects. This can be a child led/peer led activity, the teacher requires little to no prior knowledge on the topic, they can just facilitate the lesson.

History/English/Numeracy – Print slide 9 and give a copy to each group/pairs. Ask them to match what year they think each event happened. They are not in the correct order on slide 9 but they are in slide 10 when the class can check their answers.

English - Oral Language – there are a number of slides in which questions are asked of the class. On these slides the class are asked to discuss the questions either as a whole class, in groups or pairs. The third and final slide can be completed using a KWL chart. KWL charts can be downloaded here (https://www.scoilnet.ie/search/resource/entity/show/Lre/19245/) or a whole class KWL chart can be written on the whiteboard or a large piece of paper. A KWL Chart is K - what they know and the W - What they want to learn.
Another oral language activity can be completed using slide 7 also. The teacher can ask the class how does the 1887 Rugby Team look different to Ireland’s current rugby team?

The image on the first slide was sourced here: "RBS 6 Nations Fixtures Announced For 2014 & 2015 Championships". rbs6nations.com. N.p., 2017. Web. 25 Jan. 2017.

A collection of sample answers gathered together in a Scoilnet Learning Path. The links refer to external websites. These links could be given to students who are planning on writing responses to questions on Hamlet.

Online text/ book for 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare by Folger Digital Texts. The book has three main tabs on the left hand side 'Synopsis', 'Characters' and 'Contents'. Users can search the book based on contents/ acts/ scenes or by page number.