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Tes: The Tempest Sow
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a comprehensive lesson plan for teaching Shakespeare's The Tempest including worksheets, excerpts from the text in original and modern versions, and writing assignments with rubrics.
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Tes: The Tempest 2010 Film Guide
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a film guide to the Into version of Shakespeare's The Tempest, a mystical thriller with a modern twist (available free from intofilm.org). It provides a short summary, prereading and...
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Tes: The Tempest Rsc Themes Reference
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a teacher reference guide for the themes and motifs in Shakespeare's The Tempest. It lists the major themes and motifs and provides examples with text references.
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Tes: Scheme of Work: The Tempest by William Shakespeare
[Free Registration/Login Required] During these multi-day lessons, students will closely read William Shakespeare's work, The Tempest. Students will analyze characters, plot, and themes. Students will culminate their understanding...
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Tes: The Tempest: Printable Teaching Resource Pack
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this teaching resource, students will learn about the synopsis, background, and actors of the National Theatre's production of The Tempest. Reading and writing lessons are included in this resource.
British Library
British Library: Prose and Verse in Shakespeare's Plays
An article discussing how Shakespeare used prose and verse in his plays, and what we can learn from this. The author cites numerous examples from Shakespeare's plays and a few from other authors. Includes images of documents in the...
SparkNotes
Spark Notes: No Fear Shakespeare: The Tempest by William Shakespeare
This site offers the complete text of The Tempest by William Shakespeare in the original middle English and in a modern version side-by-side on each page.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: The Tempest by William Shakespeare: Acts Iv V
This lesson focuses on reading The Tempest particularly Acts IV-V. I provides various links to the text: Speak the Speech: The Tempest text and audio, Open Source Shakespeare: The Tempest text, and No Fear Shakespeare: The Tempest.
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: William Shakespeare
Here find links to the full texts of William Shakespeare's plays as well as study guides. (Note: Some of the links may no longer work.)
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Giorgione
This art museum site offers an enlarged image of "The Tempest."
The Newberry Library
Newberry: Shakespeare's the Tempest and Utopias of the European Renaissance
Newberry Library learning module uses primary source material of Shakespeare in a lesson on how Renaissance writers and artists portrayed European exploration of America. Students read excerpts from works of Renaissance literature to...
British Library
British Library: Teaching Resources: The Tempest: Who Is Savage & Who Is Civilised?
These activities encourage students to explore the 'brave new world' of The Tempest in light of thought-provoking texts on early modern colonization. Included are discussion questions, primary sources, links for extended reading,...
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British Library: Teaching Resources: The Tempest: Slideshow Who Is Savage & Who Is Civilised?
These activities encourage students to explore the 'brave new world' of The Tempest in light of thought-provoking texts on early modern colonization. A link to a slideshow featuring images of Native Americans and Europeans which...
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British Library: Teaching Resources: The Tempest: Magic
This activity encourages students to explore Shakespeare's presentation of Prospero and his arts in the light of attitudes to magic in the Elizabethan and early Jacobean period. Included are discussion questions, primary sources, links...
Bibliomania
Bibliomania: Shakespeare the Tempest
Here is the full text of William Shakespeare's play, "The Tempest." Text is organized by scene.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plan Archive: Tempest in the Lunchroom
In this lesson plan, students learn to read and act out the shipwreck scene in Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: A Guide to "The Tempest" [Pdf]
Lists of related books, ideas for classroom activities and lessons, and background information are all featured in this 19 page .pdf guide.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Tales From Shakespeare in Verse: The Tempest by Shakespeare
This is an online photocopy of the original of the children's book Tales from Shakespeare in Verse: The Tempest by William Shakespeare a poem of Shakespeare's play "The Tempest."
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Combining Persuasion and Literary Analysis
Contains plans for eight lessons that ask students to put characters from a work of literature on trial. This instructional activity uses Shakespeare's "The Tempest" as an example, but this concept can be applied to other works as well....
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare site that includes the texts of all of Shakespeare's plays. Shakespeare's other work is listed, but texts are not available. RL.11-12.10a/b Text Complexity
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Tes: Shakespeare's the Tempest Image Bank
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of images of 18th and 19th-century paintings from the Victoria and Albert Museum which includes three images inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest. Ideas for their use is also...
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Tes: The Tempest: Prospero Gallery
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of photos of Prospero from different Royal Shakespeare Company's productions of Shakespeare's The Tempest. They could be useful to compare interpretations and to spark discussion.
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Tes: The Tempest: Magic Gallery
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of magic photos from the Royal Shakespeare Company's various productions of Shakespeare's The Tempest, which could be useful in comparing different interpretations and sparking...
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Tes: The Tempest 2010 Teacher Pack
[Free Registration/Login Required] This teacher resource pack is designed for use with Royal Shakespeare Company and Little Angel Theatre 2010 production of The Tempest. It is for use with younger students and offers detailed information...