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TES Global

Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Themes: Love

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of resources for exploring how romantic love and lovers feature in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. It includes video clips, Shakespeare's sonnets, and teacher resources.
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Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: A Midsummer Night's Dream

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will compare and contrast the imagery from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with other works of Shakespeare using online resources.
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TES Global

Tes: Romeo & Juliet: Shakespeare's Love Language

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on a study of the Shakespearean Language in Romeo & Juliet's meeting scene in Act 1 Scene 5 with activites such as writing text messages between lovers and the difference between...
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TES Global

Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The comedy Much Ado About Nothing, also known as Love's Labour's Won, looks at human relationships from the fiery love affair with Benedick and Beatrice to the filial obligations of Hero to Leonato....
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TES Global

Tes: Othello by William Shakespeare: Worksheet Pack

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a complete guide to teaching Othello including a short synopsis of each scene followed by questions, an essay assignment on themes, a dramatic function assignment, a glossary of literary terms...
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TES Global

Tes: Representation of Love in Romeo & Juliet: Resource

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This slide show introduces the assignment to compare Shakespeare's representation of love in Macbeth as compared to Romeo and Juliet. It provides a chart and quotes of love from Romeo and Juliet.
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TES Global

Tes: Romeo and Juliet Love Activity

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this activity, students learn to use the PEE (point, evidence, explain) model to study Love in Romeo and Juliet. They use a tracking worksheet to write down points showing Romeo and Juliet's feelings...
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TES Global

Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Themes: Love: Sonnet 116 Power Point

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a lesson for teaching Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 including the structure of sonnets, understanding the meaning of the sonnet, and finding important points made about love in the Sonnet, finding...
Primary
Eserver

E Server: Poetry Collection: Shakespeare: Sonnet 141

For Students 9th - 10th
The text of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 141.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Othello" by William Shakespeare

For Students 10th - 12th
Selected (7) reading passages (grades 10-12) to pair with the drama "Othello" by William Shakespeare. Othello, a revered general of the Venetian army, has his newlywed wife meet him in Cyprus where he's stationed. But while there his...
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Curated OER

The New York Times: "Shakespeare in Love" Movie Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Janet Maslin, esteemed film critic for The New York Times, reviews the 1998 film, coauthored by Tom Stoppard. She sees in the film elements of Stoppard's earlier work, "Rosencrantz and Gildenstern."
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British Library

British Library: Teaching Resources: Putting Romeo and Juliet in Context: A Summary of Sources

For Students 9th - 10th
This summary of sources is a quick and easy way to explore the contexts for Romeo and Juliet - from young love in Shakespeare's day to sonnets and sleeping potions, and from Brooke's 1562 poem on Romeus and Juliet to a 21st-century...
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Other

A Midsummer Night's Dream Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This guide to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream began as the From Stage to Screen: Shakespeare and the World Wide Web project with the Moscow Alternative School Center in Idaho. This guide will walk you through the steps we took at...
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Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare for Kids: Love and Friendship [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how love and friendship were expressed in seventeenth-century England, then try your hand at creating similar lines using the conventions of the seventeenth century.
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University of Victoria (Canada)

Internet Shakespeare Editions: "The Winter's Tale "

For Students 9th - 10th
Some summary and analysis of William Shakespeare's comedy "The Winter's Tale." It discusses a variety of aspects of the play including courtly love, view of bears in Shakespeare's time, pastorals, the character Autolycus, and other...
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Other

The Holloway Pages: "Love's Labour's Lost" (Second Folio 1632)

For Students 9th - 10th
This website presents a "facsimile copy of the play Love's Labour's Lost" as it was published for the Second Folio in 1632.
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University of Victoria (Canada)

Internet Shakespeare Editions: "As You Like It"

For Students 9th - 10th
Some background information for William Shakespeare's comedy "As You Like It." It discusses such topics as the Romantic comedy and satire, marriage, court life, love, and country life in the context of the play.
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New York University

Nyu: William Shakespeare Literature Annotations

For Students 9th - 10th
Helpful but concise literature annotations on some of Williams Shakespeare's (1564-1616 CE) works.
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: Romeo and Juliet Theme of Love

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The theme of love is discussed in this site along with a series of questions related to this topic.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Sounds of the Sonnet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"Sound Experiments" drive this lesson plan. Sonnet analysis is accompanied by readings based on specific emotions. At this website, there are several links full-text sonnets by such authors as Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Longfellow, and...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "The Fault of Our Stars" by John Green

For Students 9th - 10th
Hazel has been diagnosed with cancer and has a sullen outlook on life. She meets Augustus, whose love and friendship brings her across the world and around again -- in more than one way. Selected (6) reading passages (grades 8-12) to...
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Read Works

Read Works: "Sonnet 73"

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A sonnet by William Shakespeare about love and the passage of time. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 9: Romeo and Juliet

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students explore how patterns and contrasts in language (diction, imagery, figurative language) reveal central ideas in texts and develop various motifs (light vs. dark, dreams vs. reality, high vs. low, etc.) in Romeo and Juliet. They...

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