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Word Choice: Who and Whom

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In these word choice worksheets, students read the sentences and complete each sentence with one of the choices of who or whom.
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Tense Consistency: Exercise 3

For Students 6th - 8th
In this tense consistency worksheet, students are asked to read a passage where some of the verbs have been omitted. Students must determine the correct tense of the verb necessary to complete the sentence correctly.
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Project Assessing the Need

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students determine ways to serve the community. In this service learning lesson, students list human wants and human needs and repeat the activity for community wants and community needs. Students contact local agencies to conduct a...
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Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

For Students 3rd - 4th
For this literature quiz, students complete a ten question multiple choice assessment about the book Charlotte's Web by E.B. White.
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Phrasal Verbs with "Into"

For Students 5th - 6th
In this phrasal verbs instructional activity, students complete a 10 question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz about phrasal verbs with "into". Example: come into money, bump into someone, burst into tears.
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Mistaken Identities, Misrepresentations, and Changes of Mind

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study a play and then discuss the mistaken identities, misrepresentations, and changes of mind that occur. In this discussion of plays lesson plan, students learn new vocabulary words and discuss and differentiate between...
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An Actor's View of Shakespeare

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners research characters from different plays. In this Shakespeare and performing arts lesson plan, students discuss the portrayal of characters from the perspective of real actors. Learners work in groups to examine the technique...
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Hamlet on the Ramparts: A Pre-reading Activity

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore the first act of Hamlet. In this Shakespeare lesson, students pantomime important events from Hamlet in a pre-reading activity. Classmates observe the performances and write reviews.
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Conspiracy after the Storm: Editing Dual Murder Plots in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Young scholars edit scenes from Shakespeare's The Tempest in documentary fashion and perform their edited scripts. In this play analysis instructional activity, students read through Act 2 and 3 and discuss how and why to cut lines in a...
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Inside Hamlet

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Pupils examine how tone and inflection shape the character of Hamlet. For this Shakespeare lesson, students summarize what they know of Hamlet and complete a read around. Pupils discuss the inflection patterns and tone in the reading and...
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Good Words are Better than Bad Strokes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers research negative campaigns and propaganda and then interpret characters from Julius Caesar in that light. In this negative campaign lesson plan, students take the character and create visual images to depict the...
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Message in a Bottle

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students read acts from The Tempest and complete analysis activities for the play. In this Shakespeare instructional activity, students read the first four acts of The Tempest and choose one of the characters to write a rescue message...
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Shakespeare by Choice

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify the most important elements in a scene.  In this editing a scene activity, students decide what elements are absolutely necessary to a scene.  Students discuss the main criteria for editing or cutting a scene...
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"What are these...?"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss the "witches" of Shakespeare.  In this literature analysis lesson plan, students research the influence of Macbeth's sisters on his behavior.  They examine various terms used to describe the sisters, and...
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In Search of Caesar's Ghost

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students collaborate in small groups to choose a scene that they write in place of a scene in Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar". In this dramatic expression instructional activity, their scripts include roles, lines and stage...
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Among the Hidden Reflection Sheet

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders read the book Among the Hidden and practice their reading strategies. In this reading strategies lesson plan, 5th graders demonstrate their comprehension by presenting book projects to the class.
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Intermediate Sentence Completion: 32

For Students 4th - 6th
In this sentence completion worksheet, students answer multiple choice questions where they complete the sentence with one word. Students complete 10 questions.
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Various 3 - Sentence Completions

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this sentence completion worksheet, students choose the correct word to use in the ten given sentences. This multiple choice worksheet is interactive.
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Alphabetical Order

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students complete an online alphabet activity. In this alphabetical order lesson, students identify the list of words in alphabetical order. Students discuss ordering using the alphabet and practice with the second set of words. Students...
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Spenser, Shakespeare, and the "Blazon": Lesson 4

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students discuss the meaning and tone of Shakespeare's Sonnet 130.  In this sonnets lesson, students compare Spenser's sonnets to Shakespeare's.  Students discuss specific words that add to the humor in Shakespeare's sonnet,...
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Close Reading of a Sonnet

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students practice reading sonnets line by line to find the message of the sonnet.  In this sonnet instructional activity, students read a sonnet one line at a time as the teacher projects it for the entire class.  As each line...
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Remembrance of Yours--Analyzing Characters Using Mementos

For Teachers 10th - 12th
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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King Lear- Cut a Scene

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students determine the most critical elements of King Lear, Act I using a Silent Scene Model.  For this King Lear lesson, students will create a silent scene based on a scene from Act I of King Lear and act out their scenes for the...
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Thrusting Greatness Upon Television 3

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a model video using Orsino's speech from Twelfth Night. In this literature and film making activity, students watch a video clip of Osino's speech and overdub it using Audacity or iMovie.