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"Thou hast set me on the rack": A Dramatic Reading of Iago's Most Poisonous Lines
Students select and analyze quotations from Othello, and do a dramatic reading to illustrate the power of Iago's most poisonous words.
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Pre-reading for Julius Caesar
Students examine friendship and leadership by creating "friendship committees" to develop a class friendship constitution. Committees list qualities/traits of a friend, as well as friendship infractions. These committees join together...
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"To Be Or Not To Be" And the VT
Using the online Visual Thesaurus, nascent actors work in groups to analyze and interpret Hamlet's "To Be Or Not To Be" monologue. Individuals then craft a contemporary version of this famous speech and present their adaptation...
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Deception Lesson Plan
Students explore Shakespeare's portrayal of deception. In this plot lesson plan, students examine the use of deception in "Much Ado About Nothing." Students write their own mini-versions of the play that are limited to 3 minutes.
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Much Ado About Nothing Plot Lesson Plan
Students explore tone in "Much Ado About Nothing." In this literary elements instructional activity, students list the main points of the plot, identify shifts in tone, and select love songs that reflect the tone of events and/or...
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Enter Players: Constructing Character Connections in Hamlet
Students research the characters of Hamlet. In this Shakespearean literature instructional activity, students complete a pre-reading activity designed to improve their familiarity with the characters in the story. In small...
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Wordles, Wordles, Wordles: Pre-Reading for Hamlet Using Key Words
Students analyze a Wordle of the top 150 words in Hamlet and complete a study of the language in the play. In this Hamlet literacy lesson, students work in groups to complete the given handouts to categorize the words of the play and...
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The Bullying of Malvolio
Students explore Malvolio's behavior and treatment in Twelfth Night. For this literature lesson, students examine the characteristics of a bully. They then work in groups and analyze scenes to determine whether Malvolio fits...
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Remembrance of Yours--Analyzing Characters Using Mementos
Students choose two characters in Hamlet and symbolize the characters with an object, or find an object that the characters might carry. In this Hamlet lesson, students find an object to represent each character they choose. The object...
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Thrusting Greatness Upon the Television 2
Students create mini-scenes using two random lines from Orsino's speech. In this Twelfth Night instructional activity, students are given random lines from Orsino's speech and create a skit using their given lines at the...
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Appreciating the Language and Interpreting the Meaning of Hamlet's Soliloquy
Students analyze Hamlet's soliloquy, "To be or not to be." In this Hamlet lesson, students define unfamiliar words in the soliloquy and interpret the lines. Students then read the lines aloud and identify descriptive words....
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Hamlet: Study Questions and Essay Topics
In this Hamlet worksheet, students discuss the foils of Hamlet. Including his "tragic flaw," his possible insanity, and his relationship with Ophelia. Students also analyze the roles of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and the use of...
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Dreams
In this dreams activity, students, with a partner, explore, examine, discuss and complete a variety of activities associated with dreams and the history of dreams and nightmares.
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Investigating Othello: Peeling Away Layers of Meaning
Students analyze piece of literature by looking at it from one perspective and then by re-evaluating what they have discovered when other layers of meaning are added.
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O Time, thou must untangle this": Tangling up the Love in Twelfth Night
Tenth graders are broken into groups to review a section of The Twelfth Night. They are then given a handout of the same material in which they are to break up material which conveys a single idea. They are to preform this idea to the...
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Trust
Students read and discuss Romeo and Juliet Act IV, Scenes 1 and 2. They compare the unfolding action with yesterday's predictions. They consider the concepts of trust, fate, and self-determination.
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Foreshadowing
Young scholars read and discuss Act V, Scene 1. They define foreshadowing and identify examples of it from the text. They edit a partner's diary entry. They identify key ideas from the scene.
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Relationship Role Plays
Students connect a scene from a play they are reading to events in their own lives. Working in male/female pairs, students act out a scene from "Hamlet." Pairs work to role play a scene as an extension of the one they have read, using...
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Romeo And Juliet
In this arts worksheet, students find the words that are related to the play of Romeo and Juliet. The answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Romeo and Juliet
In this arts worksheet, students find the words that are used to describe the play of Romeo and Juliet. The answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Macbeth Revision Questions
In this Macbeth revision questions worksheet, students explain certain details about Act one and six from the play. Students identify who said certain quotes and practice writing two essay questions about how they would act if they were...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Students explore the book A Midsummer Night's Dream. For this literature lesson, students identify main characters and vocabulary words from the text. Students participate in a book discussion group.
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Much Ado About Nothing Masks Lesson
Students examine the personality traits of characters. In this characterization lesson plan, students read act 2 of "Much Ado About Nothing" and create masks to represent the characters in the play.
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Fools for Love in King Lear
Students discuss the expression "fools for love." In this literature analysis lesson, students use King Lear as a basis for examining parent-child relationships. In small groups, they discuss the motives behind various...
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