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Great Expectations
See how much your class remembered from Great Expectations. Use this short quiz to close the unit, or integrate some of the questions into your comprehensive unit test.
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The Battle of Mill Springs
This lesson could be used in teaching units on the Civil War or on the commemoration of wars.
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Advanced Paragraph Correction #1
For this advanced paragraph correction worksheet, students read a passage about the plays of Shakespeare. Students then answer 8 questions in which an underlined error is corrected with one of 5 choices.
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Document Based Question: Erie Canal
Fourth graders read the provided documents about the Erie Canal to discover the impact that this transportation systems had on the New York community. For this history lesson, 4th graders first analyze the documents and answer the...
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Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement
Students analyze Martin Luther King's message of nonviolent protest discover how individuals adapted his message to their own communities and situations.
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Shakespeare's Words
Students explore monologues of Shakespeare and the structure of the Globe Theatre. They participate in a Shakespeare phrase guessing game, examine a diagram of the Globe Theatre, and read and discuss monologues from Shakespeare.
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Images and Indirection
Students closely analyze a true event or moments associated with their life, then present the scene, and personal emotions and/or actions generated by that incident in a free verse poem. They learn the difference between words defined...
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Stratford Shakespeare Festival: Hamlet 2015 Study Guide [Pdf]
This Stratford Study Guide has a history of the Stratford Shakespeare Theatre and its productions of Hamlet, a biography of Shakespeare, a timeline of his playwriting, a synopsis of the play, classroom activities, and a bibliography.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Teaching Modules: Hamlet
Lesson plan asks students to learn about patterns of imagery in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" through online resources.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Lesson Plan Archive: Imagery in Hamlet
Lesson plan takes young scholars through an exploration of the figurative language in "Hamlet."
University of Victoria (Canada)
Shakespeare's Life and Times: History and Politics
This section on the life and times of Shakespeare addresses the stories behind his 'histories'.
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Shakespeare Resource Center: Shakespeare's Grammar
This site provides a searchable glossary of over 2100 words from Shakespeare's works.