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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Arthur Miller Lesson Plans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
What do you want to know about the life and work of Arthur Miller? This site features links to lesson plans and information for several of his plays.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: William Shakespeare: As You Like It

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
For William Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It, this site is linked to lesson plans and teaching materials, articles, introductory and background resources and the like.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: William Shakespeare: Henry V

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This informative site features links to teaching resources for Shakespeare's history play Henry V. Includes lesson plans, a classic James Agee review of the film version, and the like.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: William Shakespeare: Richard Iii

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Delve into the world of Shakepear's history of "Richard III." The content of this site includes links to lesson plans, activities, study guides, and more.
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TES Global

Tes: Drama Cards Genres

For Students K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Scenes from stories can be enhanced with this set of drama cards. Students can use a genre card to improvise a scene or use a card with one drama and then shift to another genre with the choosing of...
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Eserver

E Server: Drama Collection: Pygmalion

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the EServer Drama Collection contains the complete text of the play. Also includes a preface and a sequel.
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New Advent

Catholic Encyclopedia: Miracle Plays and Mysteries

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The New Advent provides an excellent explanation of both mystery plays and miracle plays; five paragraphs are devoted solely to mystery plays, including definition, differences between 15th Century standards and modern...
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Swiss Educ

Swiss Educ: Albee, Edward

For Students 9th - 10th
A rich collection of resources about the author and his works. Quite a few audio files, and video clips of interviews and features. Most require RealPlayer.
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Other

William Shakespeare Info: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Although the lay-out of this page is not particularly easy on the eye, the content will prove valuable to teachers and children alike. In addition to a brisk overview of his life and work, there are links to more detailed information on...
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Other

The Carson Mc Cullers Project

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about and images of the writer Carson McCullers (1917-1967), author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Member of the Wedding, and other works.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Archetypes, Motifs, and Plot in Drama (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Understand and analyze how archetypes and motifs in drama affect the plot of plays.
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American Movie Classics Company

The Film Site: A Streetcar Named Desire

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource offers good material on Tennessee Williams' play "A Streetcar Named Desire," including a quote from Williams on art, and information on the original 1947 production of the play and the 1950s film version.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Characters and Staging in Drama

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will analyze how different playwrights characterize, or develop, their protagonists and antagonists through the dialogue and staging of their plays.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Unlocking Symbolism/themes in Drama

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Online lesson which uses Hansberry's "Raisin in the Sun" to teach the concepts of symbolism and theme in a dramatic work. Students learn the importance and significance of these terms as they study this work and other works of drama....
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Meadowbrook Press

Giggle Poetry: "When I Was a Baby" Poetry Theater

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site provides poetry theater for emergent young readers. Adapted from the poem by Bruce Lansky in If Pigs Could Fly, And Other Deep Thoughts, students will engage in "When I Was a Baby": A Poem in Two Voices. Students will read...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site features the author William Shakespeare including a biography and the full text of 39 of his famous plays. RL.9-10.10a&b text complexity, RL.11-12.10a/b Text Complexity
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Cengage Learning

Houghton Mifflin: Tennessee Williams

For Students 9th - 10th
Designed as an online companion for teachers to the "Heath Anthology of American Literature," this website offers analysis of Williams' "Portrait of a Madonna," with sections on theme, style and original audience for his work.
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University of Pennsylvania

University of Penn: Leonard Moss' "Arthur Miller"

For Students 9th - 10th
As the title implies, this website from the University of Pennsylvania provides an excerpt from the preface of Moss' biography of Miller. The excerpt discusses Miller's position as a "social dramatist."
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Author: J. M. Synge

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers links to two novels and three plays by J. M. Synge; the novels include The Aran Islands and Two Penniless Princesses.
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Other

Critical reading.com: Drama

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discusses what the literary form of drama consists of in relation to its content, language, and structure.
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Emory University

Emory University: "As You Like It"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Clickable list of paintings inspired by scenes in Shakespeare's "As You Like It" with text.
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Emory University

Emory University: Much Ado About Nothing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the Emory University provides a link to an illustration from Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing."
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Able Media

Able One Education Network: Aristophanes' Clouds

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the AbleOne Education Network talks about the production of this play. Goes through the scenes and talks about what happens and the significance.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: William Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site provides links to lesson plans, study guides, and other teaching resources for William Shakespeare's "Much Ado about Nothing."