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TES Global

Tes: A Midsummer Night's Dream 2011 Text Extracts (Shakespeare Unlocked)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a printable copy of excerpts from the play A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare.
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Lesson Plan
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Check out this site featuring lesson plans and other teaching ideas for William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." This site offers several links to informative resources.
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PBS

Classics for Kids: Felix Mendelssohn

For Students 3rd - 8th
A short biography of Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847 CE). Click to the past radio shows to hear his music and learn more about this famous composer.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Analyzing Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn to analyze Shakespearean comedies, tragedies, and sonnets. First use examples provided in a slideshow of A Midsummer Night's Dream to understand the process and topics included in an analysis of a comedy. Then learn to use three...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Why Should You Read "A Midsummer Night's Dream?"

For Students 9th - 10th
Iseult Gillespie shares what makes "A Midsummer Night's Dream?" a timeless classic.
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Other

Music Web: Benjamin Britten (1913 1976)

For Students 9th - 10th
Quite a bit of biographical information here at Music Web, a very complete listing of his compositions, and a good list of recordings as well.
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Website
University of Victoria (Canada)

Internet Shakespeare Editions: "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

For Students 9th - 10th
Some summary and analysis of William Shakespeare's comedy "A Midsummer Night's Drea." It describes the play's structure as a multi-layered cake, and discusses many of the characters as well as the play-within-the-play.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th
Selected (6) reading passages (grades 7-10) to pair with the drama "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare. The overlapping story of several couples and the inevitably complicated road to love encompasses a play within a play,...
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Website
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: A Midsummer Night's Dream

For Students 9th - 10th
Read an overview of the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare and view additional resources such as articles, collection items, and teacher resources.
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Website
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Magic, Illusion, and the Supernatural

For Students 9th - 10th
Mischievous fairies, monstrous apparitions, and scheming witches: examine how Shakespeare and Renaissance writers played with the magical and supernatural.
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Website
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Comedies

For Students 9th - 10th
From cross-dressing in Twelfth Night to magical storms in The Tempest; from deception in Much Ado to biting satire in The Alchemist, discover the beauty and complexity of Shakespearean and Renaissance comedies.
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British Library

British Library: Teaching Resources: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Dreams, Illusion and Doubling

For Students 9th - 10th
In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare explores and reflects upon Elizabethan debates around the nature of dreams. These activities revolve around how the structure, characters and themes in A Midsummer Night's Dream reflect this...
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Article
John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Shakespeare and Love: A Look at How the Bard Takes and Breaks Hearts

For Students 9th - 10th
In William Shakespeare's plays, characters fight battles and face witches, lead kingdoms and hunt murderers, spend and squander money and friendship. Just as often, though, they focus on what can be an equally difficult struggle: the...
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University of Georgia

University of Georgia: Exercises for "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

For Students 9th - 10th
Designed for use with a specific program, these exercises would work with any electronic version of the text, using the browser's "find" feature. Some questions would be especially good discussion starters.
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eBook
Other

Self knowlege.com: Works of Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Listing of links from SelfKnowlege.com to texts of selected Shakespeare works including "Romeo and Juliet", "Macbeth", "Sonnet to Sundry Notes of Music", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and many more. Over 40 titles. Also contains...
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Handout
Emory University

Emory University: Midsummer Night's Dream

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Emory University provides illustrationsfrom various editions of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," with text.
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Other

Shakespeare Is Elementary!

For Students 3rd - 8th
Designed as a resource for teaching Shakespeare to elementary students, this site includes student work, ideas for teachers, a PowerPoint of Shakespeare's life, some Shakespeare Web site links and recommended plays.
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My Hero Project

My Hero: William Shakespeare

For Students 6th - 8th
Use this resource to learn about William Shakespeare. He is credited with authoring over 30 plays and over 150 sonnets. Includes audio feature for listening to the text.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Midsummer Nights Dream Review

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart Activotes are used to help students recall identities of major characters, quotes, and literary terms in Shakespearean play, Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Activity
Shmoop University

Shmoop: A Midsummer Night's Dream

For Students 9th - 10th
This comedy written around 1596 is a play about four sets of couples and their complicated lives. This site provides fascinating insights into the characters, themes and quotations from the play.