We’re collecting and sharing even more great teaching modules. If you have a Shakespeare lesson plan that reliably excites and engages students, send it to us!
These modules have been created by classroom teachers and curated by the Folger Shakespeare Library. Try them out, and be sure to keep checking back as we add more!
Special Teaching Materials for Right Now
Play-Specific Teaching Modules
Hamlet
- “To be or not to be”: Close Reading Hamlet’s Soliloquy
- Enter Players: Pre-reading Hamlet
- Performing Spoken and Silent Moments in Hamlet
- Paparazzi Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
- Ambiguity in Iambic Pentameter
- Analysis of Brutus' Speech
- Antony's Rhetorical Appeal
- Close Reading the Conspiracy
- Creative Writing Projects with Julius Caesar
- Cutting Antony's Speeches
- Figurative Language in Act 1
- Mark Antony's Manipulation
- Persuasive Techniques in Act 1
- Picturing Act 1: A Visual Literacy Module
- Portia's Subtext
- Pre-Reading Julius Caesar
- PRIMARY SOURCE SPOTLIGHT: Plutarch’s Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans
- Silent Caesar Scenes
Macbeth
- Macbeth and a Nonfiction Source
- PRIMARY SOURCE SPOTLIGHT: Holinshed’s Chronicles
- What's Up with the Crime Scene?
- Macbeth: “What are these…?”
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Romeo and Juliet
Twelfth Night
Other Lesson Plans
Sonnets
- Close Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets
- Easing into Shakespeare with a Modern Sonnet
- Petrarch, Father of the Sonnet
- Shakespeare's Sisters and Modern Sonnets
- Shakespeare's Sonnet 138: A Close Reading Module
- Sonnet Performances: Shakespeare's Sonnets as Scripts
- Spenser, Shakespeare, and the Blazon
- The English Sonnet: Michael Drayton
- Writing a Group Sonnet
Any Play
We’re collecting and sharing even more great teaching modules. If you have a Shakespeare lesson plan that reliably excites and engages students, send it to us!
