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Orlando Shakes

Shakespeare in Love: Study Guide

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What word has two syllables and means a ray of moonlight? If young readers guessed moonbeam, they are correct! With the Shakespeare in Love study guide, participants test their guessing skills in an exciting game of Shakespeare Taboo...
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Penguin Books

A Teacher's Guide to the Signet Classic Edition of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed Standards
With all due respect to Beatrice, Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing speaks with both mirth and matter. With the help of this guide, readers will fall in love with the "skirmish of wit" between Beatrice and Benedick, the hysterical...
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Curated OER

The Shakespeare Crowd

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students study the life and times of Shakespeare. They read and analyze one of his plays and use the Internet and videos to gain an understanding of how Shakespeare engaged his audiences, then and still today.
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Curated OER

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: 'You Kiss by the Book'

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In this analysis lesson, students recognize the use of poetic conventions as a principle of dramatic structure after analyzing the sonnetShakespeare created for the first meeting between...
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Curated OER

Much Ado About Nothing

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students read and analyze the works of Shakespeare. In this "Much Ado About Nothing" instructional activity, students deicper the play and research Shakespeare's works. Students create a quiz based on his life and re-enact a scene from...
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Curated OER

In Search of Shakespeare . Images of Othello: A Shakespearean WebQuest | PBS

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students look closely at the text of "Othello." They use an online dictionary, and use various search engines. Students use an online Shakespeare concordance and make intelligent decisions about character. They write an intelligent...
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Curated OER

You Kiss the Book: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze imagery in Shakespeare's, Romeo and Juliet, and act out the passage to see how the author includes stage directions with his poetry.
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Curated OER

You Kiss By the Book

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore Shakespeare's use of poetic conventions, examine the first meeting between Romeo and Juliet and gain experience in close readng and the interpretation of verse structure and imagery.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Unit: Hamlet

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Encourage readers to determine if Hamlet's madness is actually divinest sense. Class members analyze the words of the play before studying related texts, including T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," scenes from...
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Lesson Planet Article
Curated OER

All the World's a Stage

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Enhance your teaching of plays with strategies for pre-teaching, engagement, and culminating projects.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rostislav & Julianna: A Modern-Day Interpretation of Romeo and Juliet

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers author and film their own adaptations of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. In this multimedia skills lesson plan, students script a play that pits an Orthodox Christian family against a Muslim family. High schoolers...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Twelfth Night

For Students 8th - 9th
In this Twelfth Night learning exercise, students complete a love triangle from Act One, underline words that describe Sir Toby, answer four questions about characters, and look at the relationship between two characters. Students answer...
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Curated OER

Romeo and Juliet Mix-It-Up

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers identify themes in Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet by analyzing the film or text. In this tolerance lesson plan, students create their own Elizabethan era terms related to interacting with different social groups. In...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

At The Theatre Quiz 1

For Students 7th - 8th
In this at the theatre quiz 1 activity, students answer 20 questions, not interactively, about the theatre, then scroll down to check their answers.
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Interactive
Curated OER

English Exercises: Past and Present Verbs

For Students 3rd - 8th
Online interactives are fun for early finishers, great at independent work stations, and perfect for home schoolers. Use this one to reinforce the use of helping verbs. Learners complete each of the 20 sentences using a drop down located...
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Curated OER

Expressions of Anti-Racism through Painting: The Puerto Rican Community from West Side Story to Connecticut

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students create a graffiti wall using their own name or personal symbol. They examine their own understanding of the film as a source of inspiration and listen to the music from the soundtrack as an effective motivation. They make...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Preity Zinta

For Students 4th - 6th
In this famous people worksheet, students read about Preity Zinta and complete a variety of comprehension activities including but not limited to synonym matching, sequencing, writing, spelling and vocabulary activities.
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TES Global

Tes: Shakespeare in Love Film Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This film guide to Shakespeare In Love offers before and after viewing discussion questions and a writing assignment for the film which is available free at www.intofilm.org.
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Article
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Shakespeare and Love

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A short article looking at the ways in which Shakespeare has been portrayed in the film 'Shakespeare in Love,' and in Oscar Wilde's story, 'The Portrait of Mr. W.H.' This would be particularly useful for encouraging students to think...
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New York Times

New York Times: "Shakespeare in Love" Movie Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Janet Maslin, esteemed film critic for The New York Times, reviews the 1998 film, coauthored by Tom Stoppard. She sees in the film elements of Stoppard's earlier work, "Rosencrantz and Gildenstern."
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The New York Times: "Shakespeare in Love" Movie Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Janet Maslin, esteemed film critic for The New York Times, reviews the 1998 film, coauthored by Tom Stoppard. She sees in the film elements of Stoppard's earlier work, "Rosencrantz and Gildenstern."
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Yale University

Pen and the Pad: Romeo and Juliet and Westside Story

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan explains how to compare and contrast Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet with the film West Side Story.

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