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Thrusting Greatness Upon Television 3
Students create a model video using Orsino's speech from Twelfth Night. In this literature and film making lesson, students watch a video clip of Osino's speech and overdub it using Audacity or iMovie.
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Twelfth Night: Thrusting Greatness Upon the Television (Series of 4)
Young scholars incorporate language from Twelfth Night into their own skits. In this Hamlet lesson, students use a handout to assist them as they dub over the skits created earlier with specific language from Twelfth...
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The Twelve Fates of Twelfth Night
Tenth graders are to discuss the subject of fate in The Twelfth Night and try to predict the fate of the other characters in the play.
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Shakespeare Character Analysis Using "Twelfth Night"
Eighth graders complete a six-week unit on character analysis for the play "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare. They conduct research and write a report, participate in a book talk, and create a character analysis assignment to...
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Reading Shakespeare
Students rebuild the a portion of the text of Twelfth Night by reordering lines of text to create meaning thereby gaining confidence when in their ability to gain meaning when reading Shakespeare.
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"Blame not this haste of mine": Creating a scene for Twelfth Night
Students read a section of Shakespeare's, Twelfth Night and write a scene that would fit between scenes 4.1 and 4.3. They present the scene in small groups.
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Thrusting Greatness Upon the Television 2
Students create mini-scenes using two random lines from Orsino's speech. In this Twelfth Night lesson, students are given random lines from Orsino's speech and create a skit using their given lines at the beginning and the end...
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The Bullying of Malvolio
Young scholars explore Malvolio's behavior and treatment in Twelfth Night. In this literature lesson, students examine the characteristics of a bully. They then work in groups and analyze scenes to determine whether Malvolio...
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Shakespeare, the 900-pound Guerilla: or Performing Scenes for Unsuspecting Audiences
Young scholars perform a scene from Shakespeare for an unsuspecting audience in a public setting. In this Shakespeare lesson, students create a Shakespearean "flash mob" or "guerilla theater" event. Young scholars...
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Women in Shakespeare's Plays
Readers match the name of a female character from a Shakespearean play to the correct play that woman is in. Strong, mostly central female characters are covered.
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Shakespeare in Parts
Students examine primary source manuscript fragments, discuss differences in performing a play without the entire script, and perform a scene from Twelfth Night with no preparation.
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That Quaffing and Drinking Will Undo You
Young scholars do a close character study of the characters in scenes 1.3 and 2.3 from Twelfth Night. They read a primary source about the effects of drunkenness and examine its role in the characters of Sir Toby and Sir Andrew. Students...
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Conspiracy after the Storm: Editing Dual Murder Plots in Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'
Students edit scenes from Shakespeare's The Tempest in documentary fashion and perform their edited scripts. In this play analysis lesson plan, students read through Act 2 and 3 and discuss how and why to cut lines in a play. Students...
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"I Will Hear That Play": Using Sound to Enhance the Text
Students become familiar with Foley artists and sound effects as they analyze a scene from A Midsumer Night's Dream. They record their own sound for another scene.
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To Freeze or Not to Freeze
Students examine the non-verbal elements of a theatrical performance. They read an article, answer discussion questions, conduct Internet research, and stage frozen tableaux based on lines from Shakespeare's works.
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The Play's the Thing
Students study the life and works of William Shakespeare. They investigate the art of playwriting and write a play of their own.
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Prospero: Turkey or Tyrant?
Learners study characterization and the difference between subjective and objective points of view by creating tableaux to depict three interpretations of the story of Prospero's overthrow, each with a very different point of view. They...
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Lose the Lute!
Students use Shakespeare's plays to add modern music to match the mood in the play. They assign adjectives to the original songs of the play and find a song with the same mood. They work together to role-play the play with new music.
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Bloody Business
Students research word frequencies in Macbeth and create a frozen picture inspired by a word. In this Macbeth lesson, students view Blood Will Have Blood and discuss the dual meaning of the word "blood." Students identify...
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Clowning Around
Being a clown is hard work — no joke! Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee's Laugh Clown Laugh, a short film about German clown Reinhard "Filou" Harstkotte, asks viewers to consider the various roles played by clowns and to consider the...
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Tes: Twelfth Night (2009) Teacher Pack
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a lesson from the Royal Shakespeare Company which includes the social and historical background of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, several activities including the use of poems and paintings, and a...
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Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Reel to Real: Twelfth Night
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a slide show presentation lesson about Shakespeare's Twelfth Night including drawings of the characters in costume and a collection of video clips from Into Film and material from the Victoria...
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Tes: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Image Bank
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of 16th, 19th, and 20th-century images from the Victoria and Albert Museum which includes three images inspired by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: a 1912 Costume for Viola, a painting...
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Tes: Twelfth Night, the Comedy of Errors and the Tempest (2012) Teacher Pack
[Free Registration/Login Required] The resource "What Country, Friends, Is This? Three Plays by Shakespeare" from Royal Shakespeare Company offers teaching materials for Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, and The Tempest. The...