I have used this workshop many times and have always found it gives good results. It can be used when working on a range of storylines involving shipwrecks such as The Tempest or Twelfth Night, or as a stand-alone workshop.
Ask students which films or plays they have seen on the theme of being washed up on a desert island – there might be options such as Cast Away, Robinson Crusoe or Lord of the Flies. Talk briefly about the idea of finding yourself alone on a desert island. How do students think they would feel? What would they do first? Would it be to look for food and water? Make a shelter? Try to start a fire to alert a passing plane? Or call out to any other possible survivors?
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