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Lesson Plan

Read Write Think: Becoming History Detectives Using Shakespeare's Secret

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Is the case closed on the authorship of Shakespeare's plays? Student history detectives explore the evidence for and against one of the possible alternatives, Edward deVere, using the novel Shakespeare's Secret plus a variety of online sources.

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CCSS: Adaptable
Additional Tags
de vere, detective, drama, lisa l. owens, literary debate, mystery, mystery story, readwritethink, research, shakespeare, shakespeare's life, shakespeare's secret, shakespeare's writing, shakespeare-de vere debate, the shakespeare authorship problem
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
Common Core
RL.8.7