Strategies for Understanding Shakespeare
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students receive strategies that will help them understand whichever Shakespeare play they're about to begin reading.
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Why Shakespeare Loved Iambic Pentameter
(View Complete Item Description)Shakespeare sometimes gets a bad rap in high schools for his complex plots and antiquated language. But a quick peek into the rhythm of his words reveals a poet deeply rooted in the way people spoke in his time and still speak today.
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Gr 8 ELA, Module 2B, Unit 2, Lesson 4 - A Midnight Summer's Dream and the Comedy of Control
(View Complete Item Description)In this lesson, students read the story “Pyramus and Thisbe,” which is the story the mechanicals are rehearsing throughout A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Students closely read the text to gain a deeper understanding of the story before they read how the story is performed in the play within the play.
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Shakespeare in the Ruins Study Guides
(View Complete Item Description)These study guides from Shakespeare in the Ruins are simplified versions of the originals and include only the most crucial text from each play, a cast of characters, anticipation guides and activities. Perfect for readers that may be below grade level. Select plays include: The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V, Romeo & Juliet, Henry IV Parts I & II, Macbeth, As You Like It, King Lear, Othello, and The Taming Of the Shrew.
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Shakespeare in the Ruins: Midsummer Night's Dream Study Guide
(View Complete Item Description)A study guide - great for readers who are below grade level - to allow students to dig deeply into A Midsummer Night's Dream and find additionally resources to better dive deeply into the text.
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