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Shortened Shakespeare

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers discover the two main ingredients of a play: speech and actions. They then listen to a shortened version of "Macbeth" and write down one sentence to describe what is happening in each of the comic-strip cells.
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Interpreting Metaphors in Shakespeare

For Students 7th - 10th
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." Shakespeare provides the examples on this worksheet that asks readers to identify the two things being compared and to explain the characteristics the two share.
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Creating a Classic Comic Book

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students read a given play. They choose the key scenes from the play and write a narration to carry the plot line between those scenes. They create a comic book that depicts these key scenes, complete with pictures and text balloons.
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Book Titles from Shakespeare

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
Many titles of books borrow from other pieces of literature and are often alluding to something within that work. Help your scholars see the ties between different literary masterpieces, especially Shakespeare's plays. Titles of books...
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Time for Shakespeare

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
Memorable quotes regarding time in Shakespeare's plays are identified in this quiz. The quote is given and the learner chooses which play it is from. A collection of timeless words indeed.
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Shakespeare Literature Circles Role Sheets

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Tired of those blank stares after your class reads a particularly complex passage from a Shakespearean play? Help high schoolers untangle that prose with a literature circle activity. Ten different roles prompt class members to focus on...
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Punctuation

For Students 9th - 12th
Should that pause in your sentence be long, short, or somewhere in between? Practice using commas and semicolons with a series of grammar activities. High schoolers read a series of sentences and paragraphs and decide where they should...
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What's in a Name? Considering the Shakespeare Authorship Question

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Did Shakespeare really write all that stuff? After viewing a trailer for the film, Anonymous and reading Stephen Marche’s article “Wouldn’t It Be Cool If Shakespeare Wasn’t Shakespeare?” class groups read articles about the Shakespeare...
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Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: Benjy's Sense of Time and Narrative Voice

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students complete a variety of discussion and writing activities that highlight the concepts of time and narrative voice of Benjy by iam Faulkner.
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Journey Into Self

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders examine the concept of the journey into self through a variety of literary genres. They express the personal notion of self by creating a picture poem and writing a personal reflection esssay.
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This Was the Noblest Roman of Them All

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
High schoolers analyze the problems with staging and character using the play Julius Caesar. They summarize the final scene of the play and view film versions of the scene. Additionally, they prepare a promptbook for the final scene and...
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Shakespeare Quiz 3

For Students 7th - 8th
In this Shakespeare Quiz 3 worksheet, students answer 20 trivia-style questions about Shakespearean plays, then scroll down to check their answers.
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Shakespeare Quiz 1

For Students 7th - 12th
In this Shakespeare worksheet, students identify the characters in the novels written by the famous author. Students complete 20 short answer questions.
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Performing Modernized Shakespeare

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students select a piece of text from a play and prepare it for performance to the class based on their modern setting.
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Parodies of Shakespeare

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view a video clip about parodies. They identify the characteristics of a parody in Mark Twain's work as well. They practice writing Shakepeare like verses.
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Looking at Life through the Creation of Personal Metaphors

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners focus on the creation of personal metaphors, which are first illustrated in pictures and caricatures and then extended to descriptive/analytical paragraphs. They teach the lesson to others using their own personal metaphors as...
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The Age of Innocence Quiz

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Animal Farm Quiz

For Students 8th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, learners respond to 25 multiple choice questions about George Orwell's Animal Farm. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Gone with the Wind Quiz

For Students 8th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Galileo Galilei

For Students 7th - 12th
In this online interactive history quiz worksheet, students respond to 48 multiple choice questions about Galileo Galilei. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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The French and Indian War (1754-1763)

For Students 8th - 12th
In this online interactive history quiz worksheet, students respond to 50 multiple choice questions about the French and Indian War. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online interactive history quiz worksheet, students respond to 20 multiple choice questions about Habermas's Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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The Idiot Quiz

For Students 9th - 12th
For this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 15 multiple choice questions about Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 15 multiple choice questions based on Tristam Shandy. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

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