Lesson Planning

Learn more about how Shakespeare wrote his plays and J. K. Rowling wrote her books. Make a simple quill pen and experiment with writing with it.

Teaching Outcomes
To understand how people wrote in Shakespeare’s time.
To make a straw quill pen and experiment with straw widths and angle of nib.

Children will:

• Learn new vocabulary related to writing in Tudor times.
• Make and experiment with a quill pen, and evaluate it verbally.