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A Teacher's Guide to the Signet Classic Edition of William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
Was Antony "transformed/Into a strumpet's fool," as Philo declares? (I, i) Was Cleopatra "green in judgment"? (I,5) A guide to Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's tragedy, provides instructors with a framework for teaching the play about...
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Introducing Conflict Resolution
Conflicts come, and conflicts go, but it's how to resolve those conflicts that learners need to know. After identifying the states of conflict in a news article and engaging in a role-play activity, class members reflect on recurring...
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Test Your Speaking and Listening Skills: Role Play-Shopping: ESL
In this ESL role playing worksheet, students role play taking merchandise back to a store. Kids read 9 lines of script, a conversation between 2 students.
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Role Playing: Shopping
In this role playing worksheet, learners collaborate with a classmate to read a dialogue between two men about shopping for a sandwich.
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ESL Role Playing: Going To A Cafe
In this ESL worksheet, students collaborate with classmates to role play going to a cafe to order coffee. Students use the dialogue provided. The vocabulary in the dialogue is typical of UK citizens and may be confusing to others.
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Peer Exclusion
Students role play on how they could solve problems of boys and girls not wanting to include each other in their play. In this role playing lesson plan, students discuss the gender exclusion that sometimes happens on the playground and...
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Reader's Theater, Get Ready
Students recognize what features make a play. In this reader's theater instructional activity, students read the play Master Man: A Tall Tale of Nigeria told by Aaron Shepard and determine what features make this a play and what the...
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The Amazon Rain Forest
Fifth graders perform a play about the Amazon Rain Forest. They practice assigned parts and sing a song about the Rain Forest. They create costumes for the characters and discuss the role each character plays. They perform the play...
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Thornton Wilder's Our Town: The Reader as Writer
Students read a play and create their own play using Thornton Wilder's Our Townas a resource. In this play lesson, students analyze how theatrical elements contribute to a play's meanings and effects. Students recognize differences...
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Shakespeare Lesson Plan
Students discuss Shakespeare's background and their initial opinions and perceptions of him. In groups, they are assigned a topic to research and to relate one of Shakespeare's plays to the topic. They present a summary of the scenes...
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Mixing Primary and Secondary Colors
Students use Play Doh to make a color wheel. In this color wheel lesson plan, students use primary and secondary colors of Play Doh to make a color wheel.
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Guess that Scene: A Review of A Midsummer Night's Dream Through Performance
Students rewrite and perform various scenes from the play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. In groups, they include the main quotes and ideas from their scene, perform it for the class, and identify which scene each group is performing.
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Can You Hear Macbeth Now?
Students explore how sound affects scene understanding using the Shakespeare play Macbeth. In this audio and play analysis lesson, students respond to Macbeth events as if they were at a sporting event. Students listen to parts of the...
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Using Tableaux Vivants in Much Ado About Nothing
Students use tableaux vivants to engage in the Much Ado About Nothing playIn this tableax vivants lesson plan, students read the scen from the play and discuss the key elements in terms of character revelation and action. Students...
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Hamsters
Young scholars read books, learn about the letter h, and eat apples all to learn about hamsters. In this hamsters lesson plan, students also use play dough to make hamsters.
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Romeo and Juliet Newspaper
Young scholars design a newspaper after reading the play "Romeo and Juliet." They include an appropriate title, wedding announcement, an advice column, an obituary and classified advertisements.
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December 5
In this role-playing activity, students view and discuss what seven people are doing in seven pictures. Students then answer what each person is doing by answering seven multiple choice questions.
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Infusing Equity by Gender into the Classroom: A Handbook of Classroom Practices--See What We've Done
Students research a leader or achiever, prepare a poster, and participate in a panel discussion and role play. In this contributions by people of diverse backgrounds lesson, students choose a leader and find three resources about...
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Build A Tree
Students study the different parts of a tree and the significance of each part. In this build a tree lesson, students use role-playing theater to reinforce what they are learning. Students use their imagination to become tree parts...
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Rabbits
Students read books, learn about the letter r, and eat carrots all to learn about rabbits. In this rabbits lesson plan, students also do the bunny hop and make rabbits out of play dough.
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Welcome to Venice
High schoolers read the opening scene of the play, The Merchant of Venice without receiving any background information. They analyze and discuss the relationships between the six characters, and determine the social status of the...
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Conspiracy after the Storm: Editing Dual Murder Plots in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'
Students edit scenes from Shakespeare's The Tempest in documentary fashion and perform their edited scripts. In this play analysis lesson, students read through Act 2 and 3 and discuss how and why to cut lines in a play. Students create...
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Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and Motives of Evil
Students complete play and vocabulary analysis for William Shakespeare's Macbeth. In this Macbeth analysis lesson, students use an online research engine to locate passages that highlight Macbeth's response to fear and his descent into...
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There's No Business Like Bank Business
Students participate in a role play where they see how a bank works and how interest is paid by having money in the bank. In this bank lesson plan, students operate a bank and learn about saving, accounts, deposits, withdrawals,...
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