The Winter’s Tale: Storybook Strategy

Varier wag? I'fecks? Posterns? As part of their vocabulary study, readers of The Winter's Tale try their hand at crafting Shakespearian-style sentences using words drawn from the play.

To demonstrate their understanding of characterization in The Winter's Tale, groups create a Facebook profile for one of the characters in Shakespeare's play.

Combine poetry and reading comprehension with an engaging writing assignment. Readers of The Winter's Tale craft a sonnet in the voice of one of the characters in Shakespeare's play.

After reading the first act of The Winter's Tale, class members conduct a trial and consider Leontes' accusations against Herminone.

Before beginning The Winter's Tale groups read and discuss a scenario that parallels the plot of Shakespeare's play. They then brainstorm possible solutions to the problem.

To focus their reading of act 3, scene 2 of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, class members complete questions—before you read, as you read, and after you finish read.

Is Perdita lost? Is Leontes a lion? Hermione a messenger? Readers of "The Winter's Tale" research the names of the characters in Shakespeare's play and consider the implications of these names.

Readers are first introduced to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart by making a map of Africa. They will better understand the novel's historical and literary contexts, European and African literary traditions, and how historical events...