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TES Global

Tes: The Tempest Sow

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[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 Global

Tes: The Tempest 2010 Film Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[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 Global

Tes: The Tempest Rsc Themes Reference

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[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 Global

Tes: Scheme of Work: The Tempest by William Shakespeare

For Teachers 5th - 9th Standards
[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 Global

Tes: The Tempest: Printable Teaching Resource Pack

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[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.
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British Library

British Library: Prose and Verse in Shakespeare's Plays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Primary
SparkNotes

Spark Notes: No Fear Shakespeare: The Tempest by William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: The Tempest by William Shakespeare: Acts Iv V

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Primary
Bibliomania

Bibliomania: William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th
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.)
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Giorgione

For Students 9th - 10th
This art museum site offers an enlarged image of "The Tempest."
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The Newberry Library

Newberry: Shakespeare's the Tempest and Utopias of the European Renaissance

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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British Library

British Library: Teaching Resources: The Tempest: Who Is Savage & Who Is Civilised?

For Students 9th - 10th
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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PPT
British Library

British Library: Teaching Resources: The Tempest: Slideshow Who Is Savage & Who Is Civilised?

For Students 9th - 10th
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

British Library: Teaching Resources: The Tempest: Magic

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Shakespeare the Tempest

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is the full text of William Shakespeare's play, "The Tempest." Text is organized by scene.
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Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plan Archive: Tempest in the Lunchroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students learn to read and act out the shipwreck scene in Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: A Guide to "The Tempest" [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lists of related books, ideas for classroom activities and lessons, and background information are all featured in this 19 page .pdf guide.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Tales From Shakespeare in Verse: The Tempest by Shakespeare

For Students 2nd - 5th
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."
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Combining Persuasion and Literary Analysis

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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....
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eBook
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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 Global

Tes: Shakespeare's the Tempest Image Bank

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[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 Global

Tes: The Tempest: Prospero Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th
[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 Global

Tes: The Tempest: Magic Gallery

For Students 9th - 10th
[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 Global

Tes: The Tempest 2010 Teacher Pack

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
[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...