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\nShakespeare Videos\n

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\nActors share insights into some of Shakespeare’s most famous characters, plays, and about Shakespeare himself. Each video in the Shakespeare English Exercises collection has interactive exercise as well as a transcript. Activities for...\n
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\nCrash Course Theater and Drama\n

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\nForsooth! Here’s a collection that has everything you ever wanted to know about the theater and drama—everyone from Aristotle to Chikamatsu, from Moliere to Shakespeare to Williams. From Banraku to Zaju, every type from comedy to...\n
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\nFact Sheet: Actors\n

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\nBack in Shakespeare's time, the public considered actors unruly, unlike the prestige they enjoy today. An informative handout outlines more about the acting profession in London during the Elizabethan era. Pupils discover how actors...\n
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\nBlack Actors in American Cinema\n

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\nStudents examine the contributions of a few African American actors. After watching different films, they work together to recreate the film and the struggles faced by the actors. In groups, they compare and contrast the acting style of...\n
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\n\"Poetry\n\n
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\nPoetry Through the Eyes of An Actor\n

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\nStudents examine the ways poetry has been used by actors. After reading a poem, they discuss the characters and the differences in how the male and female students view them. In groups, they read a few of Shakespeare's sonnets and write...\n
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\nMovie Actors Puzzle\n

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\nIn this actors word search puzzle, students identify names of famous actors, past and present. A word bank of 60 names is listed to assist the students in their search.\n
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\nActors and Characters\n

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\nIn this actors and characters worksheet, students write about the actors and characters in movies following a specific format for their sentences. Students write 2 sentences for 7 movies.\n
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\nVibrant Animals: Using an Actor's Body for Character Attributes\n

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\nStudents identify and portray specific character attributes through uprigth movement, creating a portrayal of an animal. They use vibrant, upright movement to convey the characteristics and temperament of specific animals. Finally,...\n
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\n\"Shakespeare and Star Wars\": Lesson Plan Day 11\n

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\nClass members take center stage as groups perform scenes from Ian Doescher's William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope. Actors are encouraged to add stage directions to the script, as well as create costumes and props to...\n
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\nWho Are They Really?: Characterization In The Outsiders\n

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\nPonyboy, Johnny, Winston, and Darry come alive in a lesson that focuses on the details S. E. Hinton uses to characterize the Greasers and the Socials. The class first observes the actors' words; the thoughts revealed their effect on...\n
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\nAn Actor's View of Shakespeare\n

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\nYoung scholars research characters from different plays. For this Shakespeare and performing arts lesson, students discuss the portrayal of characters from the perspective of real actors. Young scholars work in groups to examine the...\n
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\nLos Artistas Unidos\n

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\nLearners explore the diversity of characters in popular television shows and movies, then investigate the backgrounds and careers of famous Hispanic actors.\n
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\nJuliet 1: Falling in Love\n

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\nShakespeare's timeless tragedy Romeo and Juliet has many lessons to teach youth today. As part of the Shakespeare English Exercises series, a video and set of activities help English learners connect with the popular play....\n
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\nAnimal Actors\n

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\nStudents identify certain sea animals, pets, and body parts. They play Sim'n Dice (Simon Says) acting out each animal as the teacher asks. They sit in a circle on a rug and use mnemonic devices to help remember vocabulary words.\n
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\nTheatre Vocabulary\n

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\nFrom actor to volume, the 90 terms on a theatre vocabulary list are must knows for any student of the dramatic arts.\n
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\nFairy Tale Variations\n

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\nHere are two great lessons that work together and are inspired by the Stephen Sondheim musical Into the Woods. Young writers and actors will retell the story of \"The Frog Prince\" through games, improvisational script writing, and...\n
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\nTheatrical Economics\n

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\nRead then role-play the characters from story of If You Give A Pig a Pancake. Young actors use improvisation and characterization to create the characters from the story. They will also write and role play original version of the...\n
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\nJohn Adams - God Save The American States\n

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\nA moving video which portrays a famous speech by John Adams to his colleagues at the Constitutional Convention, and a public reading of the Declaration of Independence will captivate viewers. The actors are dressed in period clothing and...\n
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\nRSC Activity Toolkit: Hamlet\n

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\nThere is a method in a 28-page Hamlet toolkit. Rogues, peasant slaves, and young actors have an opportunity to engage in 11 activities that enable them to experience Hamlet in a whole new way. What a piece of work!\n
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\nStagecraft\n

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\nThe house lights dim, the curtain parts, lights slowly come up, revealing the stage. Before the actors appear, before a word is spoken, the audience is drawn in by the lighting, by the colors, by lines of the set, by the props, and...\n
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\nCasting Doubt: \"Color-blind\" and Nontraditional Casting Decisions\n

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\nIn his article about color-blind casting entitled, \"Willy Loman Is Lost, Still Looking for Stimulus Plan and Some Dignity,\" Charles Isherwood quotes August Wilson as saying,  \"To mount an all-black production of a 'Death of a...\n
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\nJulius Caesar Teacher Pack\n

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\nA great actor has the ability to make or break a play. A series of lesson plans related to William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar looks closely at the choices actors make during a production of the play to help provide insight into the...\n
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\nLiterary Terms: Take Me to the Theater!\n

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\nTake your class to the theater! First graders will examine characters that actors play such a villians and heroes. Then participate in creating plays and performing in them. They will also research what it takes to create scenery, props...\n
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\nWhen Shall We Three Meet Again?\n

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\n \nDouble, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble. Macbeth’s witches provide young actors an opportunity to try their hand at small ensemble acting. Using Act I, scene I of Shakespeare’s play, groups of three take...\n
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