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- 6th - 12th
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Students focus on Shakespeare's play 'Othello' and its screen adaptation 'O' to explore how modern adaptations of Shakespeare have the potential to both enhance the original text and detract from its meaning. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students play a guessing game to familiarize themselves with terminology related to Shakespeare's writing. They divide into groups, translate soliloquys into modern English, and debate their translations. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 9th
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Students write and perform a scene using Elizabethan language. They study the language of iam Shakespeare. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students find three allusions to Shakespeare and share them with the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 3rd
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Students explore the rhythym of Shakespeare's plays by marching around the room. They preted to be witches and move to the meter of "A Witches' Spell" from Macbeth. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students explore that audiences and critics have been arguing over the end of the play for four hundred years. After reading Nahum Tate's 1689 happy ending to the play, students can better consider why Shakespeare ended the play as he did. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine meter and how Shakespeare uses it in dialogue to show character emotion. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students study Shakespeare's lyric form, plot and characterization in the play romeo and Juliet. They read and act out portions of the play and, in groups, find and examine similar moments in the play where Shakespeare spotlights the action through lyric form. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students practice and demonstrate their abilities to perform Shakespeare by choosing a performance piece. They prepare the piece through translation and scoring, blocking the piece and performing a Shakespeare monologue or scene. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students experience interacting with Shakespeare's classic comedy, "A Midsummer Night's Dream." They analyze and discuss the many themes of the play to their own real-life experiences and then act out scenes in the play and write compositions on them. Full Review »
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