Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company: Education Resources: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Information about and video clips of scenes from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Includes interviews with the cast and directors, performance clips and ideas for students.
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Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream in the Classroom
This is a passage for those who wish to learn through A Midsummer Night's Dream to build bridges between real life concerns and this play, as it was in Shakespeare's time. Gives character profiles and outlines their problems in the...
BSCS Science Learning
Bscs: Globe at Night Dark Skies
In this inquiry, students predict the best place to stargaze in Arizona based on the brightness of the night sky. Students are introduced to the concept of light pollution and Globe at Night, a global citizen science project in which...
BSCS Science Learning
Bscs: Globe at Night Dark Skies
In this inquiry, learners predict the best place to stargaze in Arizona based on the brightness of the night sky. Students are introduced to the concept of light pollution and Globe at Night, a global citizen science project in which...
British Library
British Library: 20th Century Works: Nights at the Circus
Read an overview of "Nights at the Circus" by Angela Carter and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
TES Global
Tes: Midsummer Night's Dream: Magic Flower Task
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this activity, students design an advertisement for a magic flower like Oberon does in A Midsummer Night's Dream. They begin by answering questions as to product name, what it does, how it works, the...
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: Twelfth Night
Read an overview of the play "Twelfth Night" by Shakespeare and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
British Library
British Library: Discovering Literature: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Read an overview of the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
The History Place
The History Place: The Triumph of Hitler: The Night of Broken Glass
Describes the actions of an angry young Jewish man, Herschel Grynszpan, who shot a German embassy official who later died. The event was used by Goebbels to justify a widespread attack on Jewish people across Germany and Austria. This...
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plans: Twelfth Night: What's So Funny?
Lesson plan in which students draw parallels between modern sensibilities of what is humorous and the comedy of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
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Bscs: Globe at Night Dark Skies
In this self-directed lesson, students investigate what contributes to light pollution using data from locations around the globe. A handout with everything the student needs to complete this lesson is available as a PDF or Google Document.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "New Year's Night" by Henry Lawson
Text of the short story "New Year's Night" by Henry Lawson, an Australian author. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
TES Global
Tes: The Role of the Designer in Performance
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a slide show lesson on the role of the designer in creating a set including the four stages of the process of set design and creating settings. Its specific focus is for the set of Shakespeare's...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Election Night With Percent
The students will be working primarily with the concept of % of a number. They will calculate the number of people expected to vote when given the population and % of registered voters along with historical data on percentage of voter...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare Study Mtl [Pdf]
This is a five-page PDF of study materials from Bob Jones University for Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing. It includes information about the title and date, couples in the play, duties of the night watch, and Shakespeare's...
White House Historical Association
White House Historical Association: Watergate, Gerald Ford, and the Nixon Pardon
Lesson plan on an incredible chain of events that led to Ford's presidency. Students learn about this tale of American history, beginning with the Watergate break-in, the Saturday Night Massacre, and an accelerating crisis that would...
TES Global
Tes: Guide to Shakespeare for Gcse English Enrichment
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource provides teacher guides to 10 film adaptations of Shakespeare plays to teach students to become critical viewers including Macbeth, Lion King, She's the Man, Caesar Must Die, William...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Do Animals See in the Dark?
To human eyes, the world at night is a formless canvas of grey. Many nocturnal animals, on the other hand, experience a rich and varied world, bursting with details, shapes, and colors.Anna Stockl uncovers the science behind night...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Fractured Families in American Drama Lesson Plan
Part of a larger unit comparing O'Neill's and Tennessee Williams's work, this lesson focuses on family dynamics in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" and "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Virginia Woolf
This site provides links to the full text of three novels by Virginia Woolf: Jacob's Room, Night and Day, and The Voyage Out.
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The Legacy Project: Max Beckmann
As part of the Legacy Project's study of various artists, this site highlights the life of Max Beckmann in a brief but factual biographical sketch. Links are also given to pictures of two of his most famous works: Bird's Hell and The Night.
Mex Connect
Mex Connect: Upsurge and Massacre in Mexico, 1968
This three-part investigation into the 1968 student massacre in Mexico city prior to the Olympic Games gives insight into their protest movement, the events of the Sad Night, and the lasting effects of the violence 30 years after the...
The History Place
The History Place: The Night of the Long Knives
This site from The History Place provides a lengthy discussion with quotes about the take over of the Sturmabteilung (SA) by the Shutzstaffel (SS) in 1934 and the leader of the SA, Rohm, is assassinated.
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