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Figurative and literal language through the study of Shakespeare

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore figurative and literal language. They study literary devices through short pieces of Shakespeare's work. Then investigate Shakespeare's works and life.
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First Lines from Shakespeare

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
You may know famous quotations from Shakespeare's plays, but do you know how the plays start?All twenty-five questions in this helpful resource consist of the opening lines of a Shakespeare play for which you choose the title. Test your...
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K12 Reader

Identifying Appositives

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Young grammarians identify the appositives in a series of sentences and then rewrite each sentence omitting the word or phrase.
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It's All an Allusion: Identifying Allusions, in Literature and in Life

For Teachers 11th - 12th
To allude, or not to allude, that is the question: whether ‘tis better to make a reference and engage your audience or risk confusing them or sounding dated. After reading an article about, and loaded with allusions, class members take a...
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Attitude and Interest Survey

For Students 7th - 12th
Are you about to launch into one of William Shakespeare's plays or a collection of his sonnets? If you doubt your class has read much Shakespeare, have them complete this attitude and interest survey. A lot of preconceived notions swirl...
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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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TapTyping

For Students 2nd - 12th
Familiarize your pupils with how to type by tapping on a tablet screen. They will master the tablet keyboard with a set of lessons that get progressively more advanced. Track progress with a speed test every few lessons.
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Interpreting Metaphors in Shakespeare

For Students 7th - 10th
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." Shakespeare provides the examples on this worksheet that asks readers to identify the two things being compared and to explain the characteristics the two share.
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Shakespeare Literature Circles Role Sheets

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Tired of those blank stares after your class reads a particularly complex passage from a Shakespearean play? Help high schoolers untangle that prose with a literature circle activity. Ten different roles prompt class members to focus on...
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Punctuation

For Students 9th - 12th
Should that pause in your sentence be long, short, or somewhere in between? Practice using commas and semicolons with a series of grammar activities. High schoolers read a series of sentences and paragraphs and decide where they should...
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Prestwick House

The Catcher in the Rye

For Students 9th - 12th
A 20-clue crossword puzzle tests reader's recall of events in J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.
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Orlando Shakes

West Side Story: Study Guide

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Hey, enough frabbajabba about that stool pigeon, Daddy-O! Using the West Side Story study guide, scholars explore the language of the play and read about its historical associations and themes. Pupils also engage in a Spectrum of...
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My Conflict Shield

For Teachers 8th Standards
As an exercise in self-awareness and improvement, class members create a Conflict Shield listing 12 skills they believe are the most useful in conflict resolution. They then color the ones they have mastered while leaving uncolored those...
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Abstract Nouns

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
In two similar worksheets contained in this resource, learners circle the abstract noun contained in 13 or 14 sentences. Unfortunately, an example given is "courageous," which is an adjective. This is a resource for home schooling, but...
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Journey North: Tulip Garden

For Teachers 1st
First graders plant tulip gardens. They explore the nature of bulbs and plant growth. Students participate in a project that tracks the growth of tulips in various climatic areas of North America.
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My Conflict Shield

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders discuss conflict. Working in pairs, they create lists of skills they have used in conflicts, skills they have seen used successfully but not used themselves, and skills they wish to develop. From their lists they identify...
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Bookworm's Delight Challenge

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this books worksheet, students answer multiple choice questions about popular children's books. Students complete 10 questions.
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Chomp Chomp

Commas - Exercise 2

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
Use this resource to reinforce punctuation and sentence structure skills in your grammar unit. Middle schoolers read the sentences and choose the option that corrects the error in comma usage within the sentence. The questions are...
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English Vocabulary Skills: AWL Sublist 1 - Exercise 3c

For Students 9th - 12th
In this online interactive English vocabulary skills worksheet, students answer 10 matching questions which require them to fill in the blanks in 10 sentences. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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This Was the Noblest Roman of Them All

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
High schoolers analyze the problems with staging and character using the play Julius Caesar. They summarize the final scene of the play and view film versions of the scene. Additionally, they prepare a promptbook for the final scene and...
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Shakespeare Quiz 3

For Students 7th - 8th
In this Shakespeare Quiz 3 worksheet, students answer 20 trivia-style questions about Shakespearean plays, then scroll down to check their answers.
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Shakespeare Quiz 1

For Students 7th - 12th
In this Shakespeare worksheet, learners identify the characters in the novels written by the famous author. Students complete 20 short answer questions.
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Interactive
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Relative Pronouns and Adverbs

For Students 3rd - 5th
Take your class to the computer lab to give them some independent practice. Relative pronouns and adverbs are the focus here, so learners will grapple with when to use who, which, that, whose, and where. There are 19 multiple choice and...
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Calling All Directors

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Interpret Shakespearian scenes with your middle and high school classes. Groups select scenes from plays that they are familiar with to perform for their classmates. They should attempt to recreate the emotions they think the characters...

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