Emulating Shakespeare: To Snooze or Not To Snooze

Students reproduce the pattern of one of Shakespeare's soliloquies, but use their own ideas and words to replace the character's. They replace each word with a word of their own that serves the same purpose.They discuss the speaker in a soliloquy.

Concepts

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conflict, plot elements, literary elements, hamlet, william shakespeare, making decisions

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Additional Tags

choice, conflict, hamlet, soliloquies, english language arts

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Resource Details

Grade

9th - 12th

Subjects

English Language Arts

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Resource Type

Lesson Plans

Audience

For Teacher Use

Duration

3 days

Instructional Strategy

Research

Year

2003

Usage Permissions

Creative Commons

BY-SA: 4.0