Advanced Placement Classroom: Romeo and Juliet (Teaching Success Guide for the Advanced Placement Classroom) [Paperback]

R Brigham Lampert EdD (Author)

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Series: Teaching Success Guide for the Advanced Placement Classroom | Publication Date: June 1, 2008

Part of Prufrock's new series for the upper level classroom, Advanced Placement Classroom: Romeo and Juliet is a user-friendly guide to teaching one of Shakespeare's classic plays. Featuring more than 50 reproducible pages to supplement student projects, debates, and writings, this guide teaches students to consider new perspectives on the traditional tale. Teachers can implement day-to-day study of the play with intriguing journal prompts, introduce challenging critical thinking with lessons that put Juliet's nurse and Friar Lawrence on mock trial for their role in bringing together the lovers, and much more.

Prufrock's new line of innovative teaching guides are designed to engage students with creative learning activities that ensure Advanced Placement success. The Teaching Success Guide for the Advanced Placement Classroom series helps teachers motivate students above and beyond the norm by introducing investigative, hands-on activities including debates, role-plays, experiments, projects, and more, all based on Advanced Placement and college-level standards for learning.

Grades 7–12

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As part of a new series for upper level classroom instruction, Advanced Placement Classroom: Romeo and Juliet is a teaching guide for presenting Shakespeare's classic play in an engaging, innovative format. Author R. Brigham Lampert has created more than 50 supplemental activities for Romeo and Juliet, including debates, journal writing prompts and critical thinking tasks, in order to encourage higher level analysis by the students. Also included are multiple interpretations of the play and photos of Renaissance-era constructions used to develop the students' understanding of the time period when this story took place. Each activity is based on Advanced Placement and college-level standards for learning. This guide will encourage creative and critical thinking as well as in-depth investigation of one of the most well-known plays in history. --Gifted Child Today, Vol. 32, No. 1, Winter 2009

About the Author

R. Brigham Lampert is dual-certified in English and Gifted Education, and is one of fewer than 50 Teachers as Leaders endorsed by the Virginia Department of Education. Also a National Board Certified Teacher, Lampert has been nominated by students and parents alike for several national commendations, including a 2006 Disney Teacher Award and a 2008 Claes Nobel Educator of Distinction selection by the National Society of High School Scholars. He is the author of Advanced Placement Classroom: Romeo and Juliet, Advanced Placement Classroom: King Lear, and Perfect 800: SAT Verbal; additionally, Lampert has coauthored and edited various curricula published in conjunction with the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William and Mary, including six Shakespearean Navigator titles and three updated editions of the Center's award-winning literature units for gifted learners, as well as published original poems in national journals such as Möbius and the Parnassus Literary Journal.

Lampert is currently pursuing his Ed.D. in curriculum leadership at the College of William and Mary, where he both earned his M.Ed. and was awarded a scholarship for Excellence in Gifted Education. He received his B.A. in English from Haverford College. Additionally trained as a building administrator, Lampert has chosen to remain a classroom teacher at Jamestown High School in Williamsburg, VA, where he chairs the English department, serving as its curriculum leader. He and his family reside in Williamsburg.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Prufrock Press, Inc. (June 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159363322X
• ISBN-13: 978-1593633226
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #487,077 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars terrific resource!, January 22, 2009

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This review is from: Advanced Placement Classroom: Romeo and Juliet (Teaching Success Guide for the Advanced Placement Classroom) (Paperback)

This Prufrock Press guide for Romeo and Juliet was developed for use in the Advanced Placement classroom, but may be helpful for any advanced student of Shakespeare. It has a helpful table which shows how the book aligns with standards of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). The author discusses themes and motifs of note, shares impressions of Verona, and reviews Shakespeare's early history. A very interesting section of the guide contains a taxonomical worksheet for each act of the play. It has prompts for the students which challenge, "To get an A on this assignment, you must answer this question, plus all of the ones below it." Those who are happy to get just a passing grade, or a B, may chose to do less, while more ambitious students may decide to complete every option. The book also has a nice section devoted to essays, with sample questions and essay prompts for a 25 minutes SAT style essay as well as the longer AP essay.