Shakespeare for the whole family
Before studying Shakespeare in high school, learn to love Shakespeare in grade school. These resources and lesson plans will show you how.
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My 5-Step Procedure for Teaching Shakespeare
- Step 1: Read a story version.
- Step 2: Memorize some lines
- Step 3: Watch the play
- Step 4: Listen to the play
- Step 5: Play the play
- Sample 6-8 week lesson plan
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Comedy of Errors
- Resources
- Lesson Plans
- Memory Lines: Every why
- Memory Lines: Complain
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Hamlet
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- Memory Lines: Hamlet, I am thy father
- Hamlet: Polonius' Advice
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Henry V
- Resources
- Memory Lines: Crispin's Day Speech
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Julius Caesar
- Resources
- Lesson Plans
- Memory Lines: Friends, Romans, Countrymen
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Macbeth
- Resources
- Memory Lines: Out, out, brief candle
- Memory Lines: Double, double, toil and trouble
- Memory Lines: If it were done
- Memory Lines: Milk of human kindness
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Merchant of Venice
- Resources
- Lesson Plans
- Memory Lines: All that is gold
- Memory Lines: The man that hath no music in him
- Memory Lines: an infinite deal of nothing
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Midsummer Night's Dream
- Resources
- Lesson Plans
- Memory Lines: I have had a dream
- Memory Lines: Helena is here at hand
- Memory Lines: I know a bank
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Much Ado about Nothing
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- Memory Lines: Dost thou not suspect
- Memory Lines: I did never think to marry
- Memory Lines: no music but the drum
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Taming of the Shrew
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- Lesson Plans
- Memory Lines: Wive it wealthily
- Memory Lines: The more my wants
- Memory Lines: Woo with spirit
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The Tempest
- Resources
- Lesson Plans
- Memory Lines: Brave New World
- Memory Lines: Full fathom five