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Shmoop University

Shmoop: A Midsummer Night's Dream

For Students 9th - 10th
This comedy written around 1596 is a play about four sets of couples and their complicated lives. This site provides fascinating insights into the characters, themes and quotations from the play.
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TES Global

Tes: The Role of the Designer in Performance

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a slide show lesson on the role of the designer in creating a set including the four stages of the process of set design and creating settings. Its specific focus is for the set of Shakespeare's...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Midsummer Nights Dream Review

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart Activotes are used to help students recall identities of major characters, quotes, and literary terms in Shakespearean play, Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Interpreting Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
After a study of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, students working in small groups conduct research and create a slideshow presentation that emphasizes key aspects of the play and/or new ideas generated by the play.
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TES Global

Tes: Guide to Shakespeare for Gcse English Enrichment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource provides teacher guides to 10 film adaptations of Shakespeare plays to teach students to become critical viewers including Macbeth, Lion King, She's the Man, Caesar Must Die, William...
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University of Texas at Austin

College of Liberal Arts, Ut: Shakespeare Kids: Titania

For Students 5th - 8th
This site provides the means for upper elementary students to learn and perform Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. It provides downloadable scripts for Acts 2 and 3 based on the character roles. This section provides information...
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University of Texas at Austin

College of Liberal Arts, Ut: Shakespeare Kids: Oberon

For Students 5th - 8th
This site provides the means for upper elementary students to learn and perform Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. It provides downloadable scripts for Acts 2 and 3 based on the character roles. This section provides information...
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University of Texas at Austin

College of Liberal Arts, Ut: Shakespeare Kids: Bottom

For Students 5th - 8th
This site provides the means for upper elementary students to learn and perform Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. It provides downloadable scripts for Acts 2 and 3 based on the character roles. This section provides information...
Unit Plan
University of Texas at Austin

College of Liberal Arts, Ut: Shakespeare Kids: Puck

For Students 5th - 8th
This site provides the means for upper elementary students to learn and perform Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. It provides downloadable scripts for Acts 2 and 3 based on the character roles. This section provides information...
Unit Plan
University of Texas at Austin

College of Liberal Arts, Ut: Shakespeare Kids: Fairie

For Students 5th - 8th
This site provides the means for upper elementary students to learn and perform Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. It provides downloadable scripts for Acts 2 and 3 based on the character roles. This section provides information...
Unit Plan
University of Texas at Austin

College of Liberal Arts, Ut: Shakespeare Kids: Hermia

For Students 5th - 8th
This site provides the means for upper elementary students to learn and perform Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. It provides downloadable scripts for Acts 2 and 3 based on the character roles. This section provides information...
Professional Doc
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Shakespeare Uncovered: Collection

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Shakespeare Uncovered combines history, biography, iconic performances, new analysis, and the personal passions of its celebrated hosts to tell the stories behind the stories of Shakespeare's greatest plays. The Series 3 resources:...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Analyzing Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn to analyze Shakespearean comedies, tragedies, and sonnets. First use examples provided in a slideshow of A Midsummer Night's Dream to understand the process and topics included in an analysis of a comedy. Then learn to use three...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Analyzing Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on analyzing Shakespeare's works using "Midsummer Nights Dream" in the form of a downloadable PowerPoint presentation. It also provides "Tools for Analysis of Tragedy and Tragic Action" and a YouTube video...
eBook
Other

Self knowlege.com: Works of Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Listing of links from SelfKnowlege.com to texts of selected Shakespeare works including "Romeo and Juliet", "Macbeth", "Sonnet to Sundry Notes of Music", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and many more. Over 40 titles. Also contains...
Article
TES Global

Tes: The Role of Music in Performance

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] "The Role of Music in Performance" by Composer Lynne Plowman is a resource for the Royal Shakespeare Company Education's Dream Team 2016. It provides information about the uses of music in performances.
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TES Global

Tes: Shakespeare's Plays

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of resources includes a diverse range of creative materials for teaching some of Shakespeare's most widely-taught plays. They offer practical approaches and encourage students to make...
Article
John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Shakespeare and Love: A Look at How the Bard Takes and Breaks Hearts

For Students 9th - 10th
In William Shakespeare's plays, characters fight battles and face witches, lead kingdoms and hunt murderers, spend and squander money and friendship. Just as often, though, they focus on what can be an equally difficult struggle: the...
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Other

Shakespeare Is Elementary!

For Students 3rd - 8th
Designed as a resource for teaching Shakespeare to elementary students, this site includes student work, ideas for teachers, a PowerPoint of Shakespeare's life, some Shakespeare Web site links and recommended plays.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Working With Shakespeare

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This site introduces Shakespeare as a poet and dramatist. Come and learn more about his life and work through this informative resource, which includes a sonnet worksheet, bibliography, activities, and more.
Handout
California Institute of Technology

Benjamin Britten: Cal Tech Project Page

For Students 9th - 10th
The focus of this project is Britten's War Requiem, but there are good photos, a bibliography, links and biographical information. The index page has information on many other Britten works.
Website
Other

Music Web: Benjamin Britten (1913 1976)

For Students 9th - 10th
Quite a bit of biographical information here at Music Web, a very complete listing of his compositions, and a good list of recordings as well.
Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Tales From Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb

For Students 9th - 10th
Mary Lamb, with the editorial help of her brother, Charles, rewrote twenty of Shakespeare's plays into stories for children. This is a copy of the tex which introduced Shakespeare to many people of all ages throughout the nineteenth and...
Primary
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides the complete text of Shakespeare's works. Content also includes a search engine (for looking up words and/or phrases), a chronological and alphabetical listing of his plays, a collection...