Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Julius Caesar
This extensive site features resources for teaching William Shakespeare's history play Julius Caesar. Includes lesson plans and other teaching resources.
Yale University
Pen and the Pad: Romeo and Juliet and Westside Story
This lesson plan explains how to compare and contrast Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet with the film West Side Story.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Romeo and Juliet for a Digital Age
Interesting lesson which allows students to relate more fully to this work of Shakespeare by rewriting and recreating scenes with modern, digital devices in mind (cell phones, computers, etc.). Excellent and interactive lesson plan.
Organization for Community Networks
Ofcn: Macbeth
Have you ever read any of Shakespeare's work that you don't quite understand? This site features a lesson plan for "Macbeth" that will help your students understand and enjoy his work.
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Scholastic
Scholastic: Richard Iii Character Study: Determined to Be a Villain [Pdf]
Four PDF formated pages with stand-alone lessons about a couple of passages from Shakespeare's "Richard III." Two pages are lesson plans, and two pages are handouts.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: As You Like It
Discover this comprehensive guide to teaching the interpretation of Shakespeare's "As You Like It."
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Remember Me: Retribution and Reconciliation in Hamlet
Examine the parent and child relationship through Shakespeare's "Hamlet." This lesson plan features insight into the purpose of the ghost's appearance during the play.
Other
Surfing With the Bard Lesson Plans: As You Like It
Delve into the world of Shakespeare's "As You Like It" when you visit this lesson plan. This lesson plan focuses on introducing you to the four central characters.
Other
Pixton: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
This instructional activity on The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is available with a free trial registration. Students use the provided illustrated characters and props to explore character, plot, and theme.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Interpreting Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream
After a study of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, students working in small groups conduct research and create a slideshow presentation that emphasizes key aspects of the play and/or new ideas generated by the play.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plans: King Lear: Multiple Texts, Editions
Lesson plan in which students compare and contrast Lear's last lines. when he holds the dead Cordelia, from two early editions of King Lear.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plans: A Boxful of Character
A character-in-a-box lesson plan in which students choose everyday items and put them in a box to represent facets, traits, or other aspects of a character that can be supported with excerpts from the text.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plan Archive: Enter Ophelia
A lesson to help students learn more about Ophelia's mad scenes in Act IV of "Hamlet."
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Close Reading the Conspiracy in Julius Caesar, Act 2
In this lesson plan, students create a prompt book of Act 2, Scene 1. Each group of students will focus on a specific emphasis as they edit the scene.
TES Global
Tes: First Encounters: King Lear (2012) Teacher Pack
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource from Royal Shakespeare Company focuses on teaching Shakespeare's King Lear including themes, characters and relationships, the two families, understanding the language, staging the play,...
TES Global
Tes: Year 8 Romeo and Juliet Scheme of Work Resources
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a comprehensive lesson plan for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet including information about Shakespeare and the era he lived in, a study of the "Prologue," character analyses, the text, and...
TES Global
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Supernatural Elements in Macbeth
In this self-paced lesson, students explore how Shakespeare uses supernatural elements in Macbeth. It begins with an exploration of beliefs about the supernatural and witchcraft in Shakespeare's time as presented in a segment from...
New Zealand Ministry of Education
Nz Ministry of Education: Violent Delights and Violent Ends: Romeo and Juliet
This lesson plan uses drama games and role playing to enhance the reading and understanding of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It includes pre-reading role play and information about Shakespeare's life and times, during reading drama...
TES Global
Tes: Much Ado: Relationships With Leonarto and Hero
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a series of lessons focusing on relationships in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing including the relationship between Benedick and Beatrice, Claudio and Hero, and Hero and her father...
TES Global
Tes: Macbeth: Introduction to Witchcraft Context Lesson
[Free Registration/Login Required] This slide show lesson focuses context of witchcraft in Shakespeare's Macbeth including learning about witchcraft in the 17th century, identifying a witch, the timeline of The Witch Acts, and watching...
TES Global
Tes: Macbeth: Full Scheme & Resources
[Free Registration/Login Required] A complete unit on Shakespeare's Macbeth.
British Library
British Library: Teaching Resources: Hamlet: Ophelia, Gender and Madness
In his portrayal of Hamlet and Ophelia, Shakespeare raises troubling questions about gender and madness. These activities encourage learners to compare these two central characters, and how they have been used to reflect changing views...
International Reading Association
Reading Online: Double, Double, Not Much Toil, Not Much Trouble
Ideas for introducing Shakespeare and his plays to middle school young scholars.
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