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K12 Reader

Mark Antony’s Oration from Julius Caesar

For Students 9th - 12th
"And Brutus is an honourable man." Or is he? Readers of Shakespeare’s tragic Julius Caesar are asked to identify the rhetorical devices Mark Antony uses in his funeral oration and to explain how these devices influence the audience to...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet quiz

For Students 9th
Review The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet with this quick quiz. Operating as an overview of the play, use this quiz to prepare readers for a test perhaps. The questions cover various elements from character foils to the plot sequence.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Boys Will Be Boys...Right?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Through this exercise, high schoolers identify character traits present in Romeo and Juliet. They listen to an excerpt from "The Office of Christian Parents: Showing How Children Are to be Governed" and participate in a Socratic...
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Curated OER

Unlocking Soliloquies and Unleashing "the Dogs of War"

For Teachers 6th - 12th
What is a soliloquy, and who is Julius Caesar? Explore soliloquies with this lesson that gets your kids up and moving! Learners line up, facing each other. Then they read the soliloquy (one side reads one line, and the other side reads...
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Curated OER

Rewriting Shakespeare

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Have your learners play around with Shakespeare's language. In this plan, small groups examine and rearrange soliloquies from Othello, noting how the language changes and morphs. All groups have a chance to change each soliloquy, making...
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Curated OER

Soliloquy Performances

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners investigate soliloquies. In this performing arts lesson, students discuss figurative language within soliloquies and then perform a soliloquy to the rest of the class.
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Curated OER

Macbeth - Analyzing Characterization in Drama

For Teachers 11th - 12th
The writing activity in this lesson could be used to assess student understanding of previously taught concepts of how language reveals character.
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Curated OER

Appreciating the Language and Interpreting the Meaning of Hamlet's Soliloquy

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students 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.  Students then read the lines aloud and identify descriptive words. Students...
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Curated OER

Twelfth Night Act 4 Scene 3

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students complete play analysis activities for Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Act 4, Scene 3. In this play analysis lesson plan, students read the scene and practice summarizing. Students complete close reading analysis activities for the...
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Curated OER

The Story Behind the Horse

For Teachers K - 4th
Students view and interpret Dan Howard's artwork entitled, Soliloquium:IV. They write a story of what they think is behind the painting and then paint their own soliloquy.
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Curated OER

Scatterbrained Soliloquies

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students reconstruct a famous soliloquy from Romeo and Juliet which the teacher has cut apart and scattered. They piece the soliloquy back together making sense of the passage.
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Curated OER

Sculptures of the Seven Ages

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students simulate sculptors and clay to help them explain abstract phrases in a soliloquy.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Drama Terms Handout [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This two-page PDF is a list of 15 drama terms with definitions; the list includes: dramatic conventions, concealment, soliloquy, aside, dramatic irony, tragedy, tragic flaw, harartia, and others.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Review of Dramatic Elements: Practice 4 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You will be able to recognize the functions of monologue, soliloquy, and dramatic irony in a play.
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Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: General Literary Terms

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The University of Victoria's Writer's Guide includes an extensive list of literary and rhetorical terms. List can be displayed alphabetically.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Monologues and Soliloquies (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th
Recognize monologue and soliloquy and explain how they function in a play.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Review of Dramatic Elements: Practice 4 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Recognize the functions of monologue, soliloquy, and dramatic irony in a play.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Monologues and Soliloquies (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th
Rcognize monologue and soliloquy, and explain how they function in a play.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Monologues and Soliloquies (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the dramatic convention called a soliloquy, when the speaker seems to be talking to himself, and monologue in which he is addressing the audience directly.
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Folger Shakespeare Library

"To Be or Not to Be": Close Reading Hamlet's Soliloquy

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
From the Folger Shakespeare Library, this lesson plan requires students to analyze Hamlet's soliloquy with an emphasis on word meaning and etymology. They then compare two film versions of the speech.
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Handout
Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Literary Terms S Z

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The third of three pages of simple definitions for literary terms. This page, S - Z, covers twenty-two terms from "Saga," to "Understatement."
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Handout
Other

Bob's Byway: Glossary of Poetic Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
Calling itself "unique," Bob's is easy to use, with cross-links throughout, phonetic pronunciation guides when necessary, and many examples and quotations. Click on the letter and scroll for the word.
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Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Literary Term: Soliloquy

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This short definition of Soliloquy compares it with a similar literary convention, the "aside."