Unit Plan
TES Global

Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Context

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use these resources including historical objects and background information to learn what living in Shakespeare's time was like and how it shaped his works.
Article
Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: 10 Ways to Be a Shakespeare Expert

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article, written by Ellen Edwards and orginally published in the Washington Post, provides 10 interesting "fun facts" about William Shakespeare.
Handout
Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: What Is a Shakespeare First Folio?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This reference from the Folger Shakespeare Library provides information about Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, referred to as Shakespeare's First Folio.
Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Literary Visions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Twenty-six half hour videos on literary analysis for high school students that feature authors, scholars, actors and noted critics. Topics include The Art of the Essay, Setting and Character in Short Fiction, Responding to Literature and...
Website
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Selecting Topics for Literary Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A series of resources designed to teach students how to write a literary analysis. The first is a screencast [6 mins] that focuses on defining and introducing the parts of a literary analysis. The second is a slide show with seven slides...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Analyzing Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on analyzing Shakespeare's works using "Midsummer Nights Dream" in the form of a downloadable PowerPoint presentation. It also provides "Tools for Analysis of Tragedy and Tragic Action" and a YouTube video...
Online Course
Yale University

Yale University: Open Yale Courses: Introduction to Theory of Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Access any one of twenty-five lectures, in audio, video, or text format, from a university-level course in literary analysis and critical literary theories. Considers postmodernism, New Criticism, feminism, deconstructionism, and an...
eBook
Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit by Coleridge

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The complete text of this literary work is available to download or read online in multiple digital formats.
Primary
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a collection of links to the full texts of all of William Shakespeare's works. They are categorized by genre: Comedy, Tragedy, History, and Poetry.
Article
British Library

British Library: Prose and Verse in Shakespeare's Plays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An article discussing how Shakespeare used prose and verse in his plays, and what we can learn from this. The author cites numerous examples from Shakespeare's plays and a few from other authors. Includes images of documents in the...
eBook
Other

Brentville District High School: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act Iv [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
The teacher edition of a textbook chapter on Act 4 of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Students will analyze the plot, make and verify predictions, and analyze characters. Includes explanations of vocabulary with accompanying text from the...
Unit Plan
The Best Notes

The Best Notes: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an online study guide for the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare including author information, literary elements, scene summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Use of Stylistic and Rhetorical Devices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students are going to learn to comment on writing composed by writers who are aesthetic types, writers who use language to bring images to our minds as we...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Use of Stylistic a Rhetorical Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you are going to learn to comment on writing composed by writers who are aesthetic types, writers who use language to bring images to our minds as we read....
Unit Plan
The Newberry Library

Newberry: Shakespeare's the Tempest and Utopias of the European Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Newberry Library learning module uses primary source material of Shakespeare in a lesson on how Renaissance writers and artists portrayed European exploration of America. Students read excerpts from works of Renaissance literature to...
Unit Plan
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Read Like This: Determining Theme in Literary Texts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this module you will read a story called "The New Dress" by Virginia Woolf, with the purpose of determining themes and how they develop over the course of the text.
Activity
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Literary Analysis Example 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This seven-page essay provides an example of a literary analysis essay (using "Things Fall Apart"). Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and...
Activity
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Writer's Model: Literary Analysis Example 3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This seven-page essay provides an example of a literary analysis essay. Clicking on the "Writer's Guide" link in the upper right-hand corner of the page enables the user to get tips, directions, and explanations on the essay.
eBook
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Timon of Athens

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read the complete text to Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens". With act and scene selection.
eBook
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: "Coriolanus"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The complete text of William Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Coriolanus" divided by acts and scenes, or view the entire play in one page.
eBook
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: "Cymbeline"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read the entire play of "Cymbeline" by William Shakespeare in a large font, easy to read format. With links to other Shakespearean plays.
Website
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: 'You Kiss by the Book' Romeo and Juliet

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan helps students understand how Shakespeare used the sonnet form within "Romeo and Juliet," to highlight particular dramatic moments.
Activity
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Grade 11: Analyzing a Novel [Pdf]

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Provides an excellent model of a novel analysis. Using Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome," this essay provides good commentary and style, as well as helpful notations and aids for student improvement and understanding. Requires Adobe Reader....
Activity
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Grade 12: Analyzing Literature

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
An online model of a twelfth-grade analysis of the poem "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning. Provides excellent style, structure, and analytical techniques, as well as notations and aids for student support. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]