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Calling All Directors

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Interpret Shakespearian scenes with your middle and high school classes. Groups select scenes from plays that they are familiar with to perform for their classmates. They should attempt to recreate the emotions they think the characters...
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Shakespearean Idioms

For Students 7th - 11th
How do you react if you're "hot-blooded?" What happens when you engage in a "wild  goose chase?" And what are "salad days?" Use this worksheet and the online Visual Thesaurus to answer these questions and more. Based on Shakespearean...
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Let's Shake Up Shakespeare!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Stray from the traditional by trying this modern approach to exploring history's distinguished bard.
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Shakespeare Literature Circles Role Sheets

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Tired of those blank stares after your class reads a particularly complex passage from a Shakespearean play? Help high schoolers untangle that prose with a literature circle activity. Ten different roles prompt class members to focus on...
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Attitude and Interest Survey

For Students 7th - 12th
Are you about to launch into one of William Shakespeare's plays or a collection of his sonnets? If you doubt your class has read much Shakespeare, have them complete this attitude and interest survey. A lot of preconceived notions swirl...
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All the World's a Stage

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Enhance your teaching of plays with strategies for pre-teaching, engagement, and culminating projects.
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Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 15 multiple choice questions based on Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Playing with Shakespeare's Language

For Teachers K - 6th
Students can understand Shakespeare's language using comprehensible input and dramatic play.
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"West Side Story"

For Students 5th - 6th
In this music history worksheet, students discover the musical "West Side Story" by first reading a summary of the plot. Students answer 5 questions about the story line. Students then read and analyze the lyrics to "America" and discuss...
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Pyramus and Thisbe, Page to Stage

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read and interpret a script. Then they use higher order thinking skills to transfer information to long term memory. They use the information and interpretations in order to have a model to create dramatic scripts.
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Shakespeare's Words

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore monologues of Shakespeare and the structure of the Globe Theatre. They participate in a Shakespeare phrase guessing game, examine a diagram of the Globe Theatre, and read and discuss monologues from Shakespeare.

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