Jacqueline Morley, 2010
This book is yet another in the very popular Danger Zone series. The series presents many, many different times and places in history in a way that is easy to understand and interesting - mostly through using pictures and short asides of text.
One of the things I want to look at in my class next year is Shakespeare, so I'm trying to collect as much supporting material as I can. This book is yet another part of that with a really nice look at the living conditions and social history at the time of Shakespeare. There's only small parts about the plays themselves, but there are a couple of nice jokes if you know them.
The book also has all the conventions of an informational text, including headings and subheadings, an index and a glossary - which are all helpful for teaching :)
I highly recommend this whole series which so far covers Ancient History, English, American and Australian history. I'm sure they'll keep expanding it in the years to come.
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