Leon Garfield's Shakespeare Stories

Leon Garfield • Allusion

The Arrow is the monthly digital product that features copywork and dictation passages from a specific read aloud novel (you purchase or obtain the novels yourself). It’s geared toward children ages 11–12 and is an indispensable tool for parents who want to teach language arts in a natural, literature-bathed context.

This guide contains the following features:

• 4 Passages (one per week) for copywork/dictation
• Notes about punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, and literary devices
• 3 Grammar or Punctuation Spotlights 
• Literary Device: Allusion
• Writing Activity: Announce an Allusion!
• 9 Discussion Questions
• Book Club Party Ideas

Four of the twenty-one stories in the book are covered in this Arrow: Romeo and Juliet (pages 205–222), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (pages 253–270), Much Ado About Nothing  (pages 289–316), and Julius Caesar (pages 317–346). These stories showcase well many of the most common recurring literary devices that show up in Shakespeare’s works.