The Folger Shakespeare Library provides the full searchable text of "Twelfth Night" to read online or download as a PDF. All of the lines are numbered sequentially to make it easier and more convenient to find any line.

In this lesson, students explore the historical context of Walt Whitman's concept of "democratic poetry" by reading his poetry and prose and by examining daguerreotypes taken circa 1850. Next, students will compare the poetic concepts and techniques behind Whitman's "I Hear America Singing" and Langston Hughes' "Let America Be America Again," and have an opportunity to apply similar concepts and techniques in creating a poem from their own experience.

This resource contains a lesson plan for assisting students with a culminating activity during a reading of Romeo and Juliet. Students are tasked with reading a critical essay independently. Afterwards, students are required to draw evidence from the essay, other readings, discussions and any other applicable materials used for a study of the play. The lesson may be used as a guide and may be manipulated to include resources that were aligned by the instructor. The resource contains applicable handouts to include: worksheets and graphic organizers.

Short instructional video with definitions, terms and examples that explains some of the archaic uses of language in Shakespeare's work, (such as "thee" and "thou") and how that impacts the poetry in his writing.