Today we met William Shakespeare--one of the greatest English playwrights that ever lived. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in England.
When Shakespeare was a child he went to grammar school. He learned how to write with a horn book. We made a replica of horn books in class. A horn book was what children of the 14th through 18th centuries used to learn their ABCs. It wasn't really a book at all: it consisted of a sheet of parchment or paper with the alphabet, phonics and a prayer printed or in manuscript, mounted on a small, wooden, paddle-shaped board and protected by a thin sheet of transparent animal horn that was attached with metal strips and nails.
We will be performing
A Midsummer Night's Dream. We enacted a bit of the play with Barbies.
