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A Way with Words or Say What?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore the language of Shakespeare. In this literature lesson, students examine words invented by Shakespeare as they interpret their meanings in drawings. Students pantomime the meanings and then write a short story...
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Stomping and Romping with Shakespeare

For Teachers K - 3rd
Did you know that Green Eggs and Ham is written in iambic pentameter? Model the rhythm of language using Dr. Seuss’s tale. Direct class members to march about the room tapping their right foot on the first syllable and stomping their...
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Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: 'You Kiss by the Book'

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In this analysis lesson, students recognize the use of poetic conventions as a principle of dramatic structure after analyzing the sonnetShakespeare created for the first meeting between...
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Shakespeare Shows

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers study, interpret, perform, and present various Shakespearean works adapted for middle school Students. They choose a scene from one of the plays covered in this teaching unit to reenact with a group.
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"Music Be the Food Of Love": Found Poetry with Shakespeare and Hip Hop

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create found poetry using lines from hip hop songs and Shakespeare's plays. They try to rewrite the words to music so that more people can explain Shakespeare's plays. They discuss the results of the activity.
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Who's the Fool in King Lear

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students complete close reading and character analysis for Shakespeare's King Lear. In this play analysis lesson plan, students reenact scene 1, Act 1 and pick only the lines that demonstrate action. Students act out the scene so their...
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Shakespeare Analysis

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders focus on the Shakespearian sonnet as a form and analyze the sonnet in terms of structure, the particular rhyme scheme of the quatrains and the rhyming couplet, the rhythm of iambic pentameter, as well as any figurative...
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Rostislav & Julianna: A Modern-Day Interpretation of Romeo and Juliet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students author and film their own adaptations of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. In this multimedia skills lesson, students script a play that pits an Orthodox Christian family against a Muslim family. Students use GarageBand...
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Puck Meets Leonardo

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars create a puppet of Puck from the story read aloud. Then they identify how they can use the inventions of Leonardo da Vinci to help Puck complete his task. Students also observe the inventions of Leonardo from books and...
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Introduction to "As You Like It"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore the character relationships and their connection in the play "As You Like It." Working in groups, students act out the various scenes from the play and discuss the characters and their actions in the scene. Young...
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Sonnets and Poetic Dialogue

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders read a piece of work by Shakespeare and then write a sonnet.
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Introducing "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are introduced to Shakespeare's play, "A Midsummer Night's Dream." In groups, they "mini-sculpt" four scenes from the play that illustrate the relationships between the four lovers. They create a living statue out of the other...
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Relationship Role Plays

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars connect a scene from a play they are reading to events in their own lives. Working in male/female pairs, students act out a scene from "Hamlet." Pairs work to role play a scene as an extension of the one they have read,...
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Twelfth Night: Thrusting Greatness Upon the Television 1

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create skits based on pairs of words. In this Twelfth Night lesson, students create a cluster map in which they brainstorm a dialogue/scene based on their word pair. Students perform and record their scenes and discuss their...
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Thrusting Greatness Upon the Television 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create mini-scenes using two random lines from Orsino's speech.  In this Twelfth Night lesson, students are given random lines from Orsino's speech and create a skit using their given lines at the beginning and the end of their...
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Romeo and Juliet Newspapaer

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils create a newspaper based on their reading of Romeo and Juliet.
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Othello's Predecessors: Moors in Renaissance Popular Literature

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students gather textual citations from Othello, discuss stereotypes that they hold, examine primary source materials, and write character profiles.
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So Much Can Happen in a Night!

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders explore Shakespearean comedy. They read and discuss A Midsummer Night's Dream and create a soundtrack, complete with CD cover, for the play.
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Twelfth Night: Thrusting Greatness Upon the Television (Series of 4)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers incorporate language from Twelfth Night into their own skits.  For this Hamlet lesson, students use a handout to assist them as they dub over the skits created earlier with specific language from Twelfth Night. 
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Expressions of Anti-Racism through Painting: The Puerto Rican Community from West Side Story to Connecticut

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students create a graffiti wall using their own name or personal symbol. They examine their own understanding of the film as a source of inspiration and listen to the music from the soundtrack as an effective motivation. They make...
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Breathing New Life into Old Traditions

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate the role of ceremonies and other traditions of Native American cultures. They research various Native American nations and create posters that visually depict their research.
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The Power of Music

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze the music Shakespeare chose for his play The Tempest. They seek to research why he alluded to popular music and contemporary artists. Students make connections between their own musical knowledge/tastes/interests and the...

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