Community reviews for Starting Shakespeare

For what this app provides, I don't think it is worth the money, but because I purchased it, I will use it to get students excited about reading Shakespeare's plays. It provides a very superficial understanding of the plot, and much is left out. For example, all of the characters aren't described, and while the plot summary is a good summary, that's all it is. Students will like the learning journeys, which are engaging. However, the activities aren't very deep, and they might not do much for helping them understand the language/plot of the story, but at this introductory stage, getting them hooked is crucial, and having them play with the concepts of spells will do that. Once I saw the first learning journey, I had hoped there would be similar ones for other key scenes, but there was only one. I see this as being useful for an introduction to the play, or one supplemental activity after reading the spell scenes, but if you plan on reading the entire play, as I do with my students, it doesn't offer much more.