Lumen Learning
Lumen: Rhetorical Reading: Read Strategically: Diversify Your Vocabulary
This instructional activity focuses on strategies to diversify and retain new vocabularies such as reading a variety of types of writing and learning roots, suffixes, prefixes, and the etymology of words.
Folger Shakespeare Library
"To Be or Not to Be": Close Reading Hamlet's Soliloquy
From the Folger Shakespeare Library, this lesson plan requires students to analyze Hamlet's soliloquy with an emphasis on word meaning and etymology. They then compare two film versions of the speech.