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Teaching Shakespeare, Using Scots

Follow this link to read a blog by Amy Douglas, an English teacher at Tynecastle High School. She writes about a project which encouraged the use of Scots in the classroom when teaching Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She talks about why she used Scots language, how the lessons were structured and the outcome on pupil learning.