DATE:       WEDNESDAY, 16TH SEPTEMBER 2026
TIME:        7.00PM - 8.00PM
VENUE:    ONLINE VIA ZOOM

Target Audience: Junior Cycle English Teachers

Learning Outcomes:

• Planning for the Shakespearean play; what to focus on and what to cut
• A plan to approach Romeo and Juliet
• A plan to approach The Merchant of Venice
• Writing analytically about the play: exam answers
• Literacy Boost and the play
• Learning to learn: the play

Bio of Presenter: Clare Madden

Clare Madden is an English and History teacher from Cork. She is in the classroom for the last fifteen years and the author of the Junior cycle English textbook series “TouchStones”