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Tes: Macbeth by William Shakespeare: The Role of the Witches
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan focuses on the role of the witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth including background information about the fear of witches in Shakespeare's time, reading excerpts and answering questions to...
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Tes: Macbeth: Introduction to Witchcraft Context Lesson
[Free Registration/Login Required] This slide show instructional activity focuses context of witchcraft in Shakespeare's Macbeth including learning about witchcraft in the 17th century, identifying a witch, the timeline of The Witch...
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Tes: Shakespeare Extracts: Hamlet Ghost Lesson Plan
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan for Shakespeare's Hamlet focuses on the Ghost in the opening act of the play. It includes reading the excerpt, listing the words/phrases characters use to describe the Ghost, listing...
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Tes: Henry Iv: Part I: 2014 Teacher Pack
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a Royal Shakespeare Company guide to teaching Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I, a sequel to Richard II. It includes an introduction to King Henry IV's court, the social and historical background...
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Tes: Coriolanus by William Shakespeare: Approaches to the Text
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a complete seve-week lesson plan to teach Coriolanus by William Shakespeare including an introduction to the social, historical, cultural background of the play, character studies of Coriolanus...
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Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew
[Free Registration/Login Required] This learning module focuses on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew including why it is considered a "problem play." It includes information about the abuse of women in the 1500-1600's, a chart of how...
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Tes: Exploring Conflict in Romeo and Juliet: Analysis!
[Free Registration/Login Required] This slide show lesson focuses on analyzing conflict in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It includes analyzing excerpts and reading a scene and answering questions.
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Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Macbeth
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of resources addresses the themes of ambition and lust for power in Shakespeare's Macbeth, one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. It includes video clips, synopsis, study guides, 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: I, Cinna (The Poet) 2012 Discussion Pack
[Free Registration/Login Required] This discussion pack includes questions and resources to stimulate discussion about the play I, Cinna (The Poet) and issues it raises. These include the article "Twitter racism: how the law is taking on...
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Texas Gateway:analyze Various Texts With Similar Themes (English I Reading)
In this learning module, the user will learn and apply the skills to analyze themes.
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Texas Gateway: Compare and Contrast Similar Themes Across Time Periods
In this lesson, you'll learn how to compare and contrast similar themes across time periods and types of works.
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Tes: Rallying the Troops: Football & Henry V
[Free Registration/Login Required] This learning module uses English football (soccer) to engage the students in Shakespeare's Henry V. Parts of Henry's battle speech are often used in songs and commercials including a BBC World Cup 2010...
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Texas Gateway: Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 1
In this lesson, students will read and annotate a pair of texts to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence. The two texts are side-by-side to better understand them.
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Lit Charts: Julius Caesar [Pdf]
This is a comprehensive 11-page chart on The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. It provides background information on the play, a plot summary, character descriptions, themes, symbol tags, quotes, and a summary and analysis of each scene in the...
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Better Lesson: There Is Something in Common: Finding Common Themes
Students will synthesize information from multiple historical fiction books to find common themes and support them with evidence from the text. Working with a partner who has read a different book, they will share their theme from their...
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Texas Gateway: Compare/contrast Themes and Genres in Literary Texts
Determining the theme is not easy; you have to use the clues the author leaves to figure it out yourself. The author implies information about the story through plot points, setting, and characters. You infer and draw conclusions based...
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Common Lit: Tech/progress/industry: What Are Costs and Benefits of Technology?
This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "What are the costs and benefits of technology?" Select a grade level and a collection of grade-appropriate reading passages comes up. [Free account registration...
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Tes: A Midsummer Night's Dream So W
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a teacher guide with various lessons, worksheets, and activities to teach Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Pbs Learning Media: Teacher's Guide: Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
Use this teacher's guide to plan how you'll integrate video clips, biosketch readers, and graphic organizers for Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum across your Grade 1-2 classroom curricula. From guided reading to a living wax museum,...
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Pbs: The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything Lesson Plan
In this lesson plan, students listen carefully as their teacher reads the story "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything" by Linda Williams. Students listen for key verbs such as clomp and wiggle throughout the story and as...
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Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Sled Dog Dash Game
Use this Molly of Denali digital game to extend and expand children's use of informational text, as well as their knowledge of Alaska Native culture. Molly and her friend Tooey use a fictional app to access information that will help...
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Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Beading Art Game
Use this Molly of Denali digital game to extend and expand students' use of informational text, as well as their knowledge of Alaska Native culture. In this game, Molly shows players how to make various beading designs using the...
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British Library: Discovering Literature: Othello: Slideshow the Challenges of Staging the Play
These activities encourage young people to join the debate about how to stage and cast Othello. They will debate the pros and cons of different productions and plan how they would stage the play if they could do so themselves. Included...