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Hamlet Anticipation Guide
Here's a short anticipation guide for Hamlet. Before reading the text, learners will mark the things they believe will happen in the text. Then, after they read, they will revisit the guide to see what actually happened.
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Shakespeare 2000
Young thespians can try their hand at writing a script and acting out a scene, while gaining a deeper understanding of the universal topics presented in Shakespeare's wide array of plays. Begin the lesson by conducting a compare and...
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Literary Response and Analysis Theme Literature
Analyze the central idea or literary theme found in a series of quotes from the Shakespearean play, Hamlet. For literary analysis, learners paraphrase excerpts from the play and then identify the characters' motivations for their speech.
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Shakespearean Puns
Tickle your funny bone with a worksheet that presents five famous puns drawn from Shakespeare's Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Much Ado About Nothing. Readers identify the play on words as a homographic or...
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Hamlet Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension instructional activity, students respond to 25 multiple choice questions about Shakespeare's Hamlet. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Hamlet's Soliloquy
In this literature instructional activity, students use Hamlet's soliloquy for a series of activities. Students match quotes with modern interpretations. Students reflect on and relate to Hamlet's feelings. They also give advice to Hamlet.
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Illuminating Our Human Experiences: Soliloquy from Hamlet
Students determine the meaning of a soliloquy and examine the themes in Shakespeare's, Hamlet. For this literature lesson, students read Hamlet's soliloquy and watch a Photo Story 3 text model of such. They write a personal soliloquy...
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Settlements in Belfast
In this Belfast geography instructional activity, learners arrange the names of places in order by size, color a map, match important dates and events, and write a plan for redeveloping Laganside.
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"Exploring Shakespeare" An Introduction of Character and "Hamlet"
Students examine the literary terms "round character" and "characterization" through the play "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare. They view and discuss examples of clip art, video, and comic strips, and describe the character traits. ...
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Emulating Shakespeare: To Snooze or Not To Snooze
Students reproduce the pattern of one of Shakespeare's soliloquies, but use their own ideas and words to replace the character's. They replace each word with a word of their own that serves the same purpose.They discuss the speaker in a...
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Enter Ophelia: Stage Directions, Promptbooks, and Film
Students review different film versions of the play, Hamlet, and compare what was presented to the actual stage directions given in the original Shakespearean version.
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Hamlet and the Elizabethan Revenge Ethic in Text and Film
Students discover how Shakespeare's play interprets Elizabethan attitudes toward revenge, as reflected in the structure of the Elizabethan revenge tragedy, one of the most popular forms of drama of that era. Students perform certain...
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Breathing New Life into Old Traditions
Students investigate the role of ceremonies and other traditions of Native American cultures. They research various Native American nations and create posters that visually depict their research.
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"Goodnight, Sweet Prince"- A Hamlet Quiz: Fun Trivia Quiz
Check for understanding of Shakespeare's classic play Hamlet using this 25 question multiple choice quiz from Fun Trivia. This quiz asks young literature scholars to recall information about the plot, characters and quotes from the play....
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The Melancholy Dane: Fun Trivia Quiz
In a unique twist on the standard Fun Trivia Quiz, this 10-question quiz provides the test taker with famous lines spoken by Hamlet and asks him to identify to whom they were said. Content combines quote analysis, character analysis, and...
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One-on-One with Hamlet: Fun Trivia Quiz
Studying Hamlet in your class? This helpful resource provides ten questions on plot understanding and quote identification. While you might not use this quiz verbatim, you might use the given questions to create your own quiz. Keep in...
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Hamlet: Fun Trivia Quiz
Consider this quiz on Hamlet for your class. It includes ten questions that cover characters and quotations from the play. Anyone can make a Fun Trivia Quiz, so look carefully at the content and relevancy of the questions provided....
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"Hamlet" Do you know the text?: Fun Trivia Quiz
While this short quiz is not well designed, it may be useful for generating your own reading comprehension questions on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
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Easy Hamlet Quiz: Fun Trivia Quiz
The title says it all. If you want a very simple reading comprehension quiz on this important Shakespeare play, this resource is for you.
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"Hamlet": To be or not to be?
This Fun Trivia online quiz asks 10 basic plot questions about Shakespeare's Hamlet. It does not require critical thinking or analysis.
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Appreciating the Language and Interpreting the Meaning of Hamlet's Soliloquy
Young scholars analyze Hamlet's soliloquy, "To be or not to be." In this Hamlet lesson, students define unfamiliar words in the soliloquy and interpret the lines. Young scholars then read the lines aloud and identify...
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Remembrance of Yours--Analyzing Characters Using Mementos
Students choose two characters in Hamlet and symbolize the characters with an object, or find an object that the characters might carry. For this Hamlet lesson, students find an object to represent each character they choose. The object...
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Hamlet: Study Questions and Essay Topics
In this Hamlet worksheet, students discuss the foils of Hamlet. Including his "tragic flaw," his possible insanity, and his relationship with Ophelia. Students also analyze the roles of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and the use of...
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Hamlet
For this Hamlet worksheet, students watch a summary video about Hamlet and then fill in the blanks to paragraphs about it. Students fill in the blanks and complete multiple choice questions for 34 blanks.