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Performing Time, Status, and Genre in Romeo and Juliet
Having students perform in class doesn't need to take a lot of class time. These short scripts give students a chance to get on their feet quickly and act out cut scenes to illuminate issues of time, status and genre in Romeo and …
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Romeo and Juliet...Unfinished Business?
How do we know when our students are aware of the thoughts and motivations of the characters they read about? In this lesson, students will use their knowledge and analysis of the characters to produce a "cross-fire" show where characters …
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www.Macbeth
Students will use online resources in order to examine patterns of imagery in Macbeth. By comparing these patterns to those of other Shakespeare plays, the students will draw conclusions about the different reasons Shakespeare uses imagery …
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Lesson 18: Cracking Cassius
Students' familiarity with the importance of friendship will give them a lens with which to examine the argument between Cassius and Brutus. By
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Macbeth: What's Up with the Crime Scene?
Usually when you tell students that they will be reading Shakespeare, you hear, "I don't understand what he is sayin'." or "I don't understand what is going on!" This lesson will introduce students to Macbeth by having them act out the …
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"My ___ is nothing like ___"
Sonnet 130 and Building a Poem
This lesson explores Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130.
Students will recognize the way that Shakespeare uses contrast to …
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Sonnet Illumination
Students will create presentations of digital sonnet illuminations along with sonnet research. Students will be seeing images, colors, hearing sounds of their own choice that will illuminate Shakespeare through a connection with the …
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Emulating Shakespeare: To Snooze or Not To Snooze
Many artists study their craft by imitating the masters. In this lesson, students reproduce the pattern of one of Shakespeare's soliloquies, but use their own ideas and words to replace the character's. This "emulation" is not a paraphrase or …
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Figurative Language Alive: Balcony Scene Charades
This lesson plan is intended for a middle school group that will learn how Shakespeare uses figurative language and abstract comparison in the famous balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet. To this end, students will play figurative language …
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When Fair is Foul: Paradox and Equivocation in Macbeth
In this lesson students will examine the role of paradox and equivocation in the Scottish play. The goal is for students to gain a greater appreciation of how Shakespeare— and his characters— manipulates words to give them multiple, …
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A Boxful of Character
In this lesson students will create life boxes based on the text of any Shakespeare play and present these boxes to the class. A life box is a container with everyday items that relate to a character. Choosing items to represent elements of a …
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Get Thee to Wife!
After reading Shakespeare's plays, students may wonder if all Elizabethan fathers were patriarchal dictators. In this lesson, students read and analyze sections from Charles Gibbon's 1591 A Work Worth the Reading to discover that the issue …
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Lesson 10: True and Honorable Wives?
Today's lesson gives students an opportunity to examine the way Julius Caesar presents and handles issues of gender. Students will respond to and write about these issues in the play with their own, creative voices. The result will …
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Twelfth Night-The Musical!
This activity allows students to reinterpret Act 2 of Twelfth Night as a musical, using contemporary songs. Students will discover the meaning of the text and the relationships between the characters.
This lesson will take 2 …
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Fear and Loathing in Othello
Today students will look at The History and Description of Africa by Leo Africanus, a primary source that existed at the time Shakespeare wrote Othello. This text, which includes a description of African people, was translated into …
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"We few, we happy few": Motivational Speech in Henry V
Students will examine King Henry's "Saint Crispin's Day" speech as a piece of motivational literature. This examination will not only provide insight into the character of Henry; it will also provide students with the opportunity to discover what …
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M.C. Bard: Hip Hop and Shakespeare
Shakespeare's works and today’s hip hop songs use a variety of literary devices to explore universal themes. Both art forms use the language of their times and are meant to be enjoyed in performance.
In …
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Playing Humanity: Comparing Shylock and Antonio
This lesson introduces students to the range of motivations and traits that make both Shylock and Antonio complex human beings with their own virtues and vices. Through close reading and performance of the conflict between the two in
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Investigating Othello: Peeling Away Layers of Meaning
When reading Othello, students will naturally be drawn to the issue of race because our society still grapples with this issue today. But to focus just on race will keep readers from exploring the other issues in the play which, along with …
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Lesson 03: "...The Eye Sees Not Itself:" Reading Images
Today, students will learn about framing, a visual device used by directors to subtly lead the viewer to conclusions about the characters on the screen. Students will create a storyboard (sketched representation) that uses framing to …
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