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TES Global

Tes: A Midsummer Night's Dream Intro Lesson Shakespeare

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a comprehensive lesson plan for A Midsummer Night's Dream including various activities, summaries, characters, assignments, and websites to view an animated version of the film.
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Tes: Rsc: A Midsummer Night's Dream: 'Schools' Synopsis by Rebecca Lenkiewicz

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a printable synopsis of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream from the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Literature Library: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Study Guide [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Great reading guide for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare. Provides pre-reading material, including an author bio, play introduction, vocabulary lists, and journaling activities, as well as charting and brainstorming...
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BBC

Bbc: Shakespeare Unlocked: A Midsummer Night's Dream [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A Midsummer Night's Dream Teacher Pack (lesson unit). Shakespeare Unlocked brings Shakespeare's most popular plays to life for young people by showing how actors and directors work to interpret and take ownership of Shakespeare's text....
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British Library

British Library: Teaching Resources: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Dreams, Illusion and Doubling

For Students 9th - 10th
In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare explores and reflects upon Elizabethan debates around the nature of dreams. These activities revolve around how the structure, characters and themes in A Midsummer Night's Dream reflect this...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream: Conflict Resolution

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students will consider William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: Conflict Resolution and Happy Endings. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab. The activities in this...
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University of Victoria (Canada)

Internet Shakespeare Editions: "A Midsumer Night's Dream"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Victoria provides an index to Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Contains Quarto text (1600) and Folio text (1623) divided into acts and scenes, divided into pages, and as a single long file.
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TES Global

Tes: Shakespeare on Screen: A Midsummer Night's Dream

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This article focuses on Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream, one of his greatest masterpieces, was believed to have been written in 1595-96. The article discusses its origins and various...
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Tes: A Midsummer Night's Dream 2011 Text Extracts (Shakespeare Unlocked)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a printable copy of excerpts from the play A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th
Selected (6) reading passages (grades 7-10) to pair with the drama "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare. The overlapping story of several couples and the inevitably complicated road to love encompasses a play within a play,...
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TES Global

Tes: A Midsummer Night's Dream Gallery: The Mechanicals

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a slide show of Royal Shakespeare Company production photos of "The Mechanicals" in A Midsummer Night's Dream which can be used to compare interpretations and to spark discussion.
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TES Global

Tes: A Midsummer Night's Dream Image Gallery: Bottom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a slide show of photos from Royal Shakespeare Company's productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream which are useful when comparing interpretations and to spark discussion.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Why Should You Read "A Midsummer Night's Dream?"

For Students 9th - 10th
Iseult Gillespie shares what makes "A Midsummer Night's Dream?" a timeless classic.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Check out this site featuring lesson plans and other teaching ideas for William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." This site offers several links to informative resources.
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Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: A Midsummer Night's Dream

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will compare and contrast the imagery from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with other works of Shakespeare using online resources.
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Other

A Midsummer Night's Dream Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This guide to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream began as the From Stage to Screen: Shakespeare and the World Wide Web project with the Moscow Alternative School Center in Idaho. This guide will walk you through the steps we took at...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Text from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Given by dramatis personae and by act and scene.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare.
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University of Victoria (Canada)

Internet Shakespeare Editions: "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

For Students 9th - 10th
Some summary and analysis of William Shakespeare's comedy "A Midsummer Night's Drea." It describes the play's structure as a multi-layered cake, and discusses many of the characters as well as the play-within-the-play.
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Emory University

Emory University: Midsummer Night's Dream

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Emory University provides illustrationsfrom various editions of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," with text.
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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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Other

A (Simplified) Midsummer Night's Dream for Ell Readers

For Students 9th - 10th
A simplified version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" developed for English language learners by an ESL teacher.
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: A Teacher's Guide to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Detailed discussion and study questions are a major feature of this 11 page teacher guide. Suggestions for classroom activities before, during and after reading are also included. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
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Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: Midsummer Night's Dream

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of William Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.