PBS
Pbs: In Search of Shakespeare: Lesson Plans
Explore this comprehensive site featuring lesson plans about Shakespeare's plays and life in Elizabethan England.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: The Poetics of Hip Hop
Students will analyze form in Shakespearean sonnets and hip-hop music. Concepts viewed in-depth include rhythm, form, diction, and sound. [Requires QuickTime 7].
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Sonnets by William Shakespeare
This is the full text of 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare. They are presented in seven groups of 20 and one group of 14.
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Classic Reader: The Tempest by William Shakespeare
This is the full text of the five-act play The Tempest by William Shakespeare including a list of characters and an epilogue.
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Classic Reader: Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
This is the full text of the five-act tragic play Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare, including a list of characters and a prologue.
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Classic Reader: Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
This is the full text of the five-act comedic play Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare including a list of characters.
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Classic Reader: The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
This is the full text of the five-act comedic play The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare including a list of characters.
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Classic Reader: As You Like It by William Shakespeare
This is the full text of the five-act comedic play As You Like It by William Shakespeare including a list of characters and an epilogue.
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Classic Reader: Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
This is the full text of the five-act tragic play Coriolanus by William Shakespeare including a list of characters.
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Classic Reader: King Henry v by William Shakespeare
This is the full text of the five-act historic play King Henry V by William Shakespeare including a list of characters, a prologue and an epilogue.
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Classic Reader: King Lear by William Shakespeare
This is the full text of the five-act historic play King Lear by William Shakespeare including a list of characters.
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Enjoying "Hamlet"
Introduction to Shakespeare and "Hamlet." Includes introduction, scene by scene synopsis with elaborate illustrations. Also background information concerning historical Hamlet, Saxo Grammaticus. "Historia Danica," Belleforest's...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Literature and Composition
This is an introduction to a unit on writing in various genre including Nonfiction, Narrative, Literary Writing, Short Stories, and Poetry. Analysis of "The Odyssey", "To Kill a Mockingbird", "Romeo and Juliet". Click on the View links...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Literature and Composition: Short Stories
This lesson provides and introduction to a short story unit. It focuses the lessons and morals taught by short stories and the use of literary elements in fiction. I provides a list of essential questions.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Literature: The Tempest by William Shakespeare
This lesson is an introduction to The Tempest, a play by William Shakespeare. It features a list of essential questions for the unit.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: Contemporary Prose
This lesson is an introduction to a unit on postmodern prose; students will be reading a novel or play of their choosing from a list provided. They will be expected to reflect on the work through reflective journaling and a timed...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Shakespeare Biography
This is an interactive biography of Shakespeare; it features links to a Shakespeare timeline and an essay from one of Shakespeare's peer. It also includes questions for students to answer using the link to Shakespeare Biography WebQuest.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Literature & Composition: Appearance vs. Reality
This is an introduction to the literary theme of appearance vs. reality using Hamlet, a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It features a list of key terms including literary devices and dramatic terms; essential questions including how the...
TES Global
Tes: Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a PDF Twelfth Night Workbook including comprehension, cloze exercises, character study, and context activities.
TES Global
Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: The Tempest
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a comprehensive lesson plan for teaching The Tempest including information about Elizabethan Theatre, the play, the theme of power and hierarchy, the setting, the characters, figurative...
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Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Themes: Love
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of resources for exploring how romantic love and lovers feature in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. It includes video clips, Shakespeare's sonnets, and teacher resources.
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Tes: Coriolanus by William Shakespeare: Approaches to the Text
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a complete seve-week lesson plan to teach Coriolanus by William Shakespeare including an introduction to the social, historical, cultural background of the play, character studies of Coriolanus...
TES Global
Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Context: Shakespeare's Life
[Free Registration/Login Required] With these resources, learn how Shakespeare lived, meet the playwright, and see a timeline of his works.
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Tes: Introductory Lesson to Shakespeare: Kinaesthetic!
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource offers active ways to learn facts about Shakespeare's life and works such as moving about the room collecting facts about Shakespeare and then creating a group collage with them and...