The Director of the Teaching Shakepeare Institute presents an invaluable guide for those teaching two of Shakespeare's greatest plays. Providing real help to teachers at all levels--from elementary school through college--this guide presents crucial information on scholarship, performance, and curriculum.
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This review is from: Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Hamlet and Henry IV, Part 1 (Teaching Hamlet & Henry IV, Vol. 2) (Paperback)
I found in teaching Shakespeare that this book was very valuable. It allows the teacher to combine both drama and literature into one lesson. Students have a remarkable response to its techniques. They seem more interested and have longer retention of the material. The variety of exercises that are written out for you appeal to a number different kinds of learners; especially my resource students. I find the book a valuable aid either as supplemental material, or as a lesson planner in-and-of itself.
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This review is from: Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Hamlet and Henry IV, Part 1 (Teaching Hamlet & Henry IV, Vol. 2) (Paperback)
I love this series so much. Have used it in the classroom to great success.
The underlying idea is very simple: take the plays off the page and they make sense to all students -- the high flyers and the ones with reading difficulties. Within these books are activities and projects that are bite-sized. They allow the script to be performed and/or analyzed and/or experienced WITHOUT the students having to undertake a full-blown performance. AND there is no dumbing down of the text. AND you can do a little of these books or every page. BUT your students need to have the skills to work in groups.
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This review is from: Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Hamlet and Henry IV, Part 1 (Teaching Hamlet & Henry IV, Vol. 2) (Paperback)
I found this book to be useful in getting across the ideas in Hamlet and Henry IV. The activities are directly related to understanding the text. Instructions are written out to the letter, and a number of outside resources are suggested. This has been one of the most useful aid I have used in teaching either play. The ideas are clear and inventive. My students responded positively to the activities that I used from this book and came away with a clear understanding of plot, characterization, and language. The only negative comment I have is O'Brien can get a little flighty once and awhile. In truth, however, she gets to and stays with the point better in this book than in any of her others. I find myself going back to this text to supplement her others. She stretches a bit too far into the artistic than my taste allows, and I don't feel that she goes into enough detail in some parts of Hamlet, but these are things that are easily supplemented. Nevertheless, this book sets up the premise for teaching in a very effective way. Once again, this is learning through movement and acting. No wallflowers or shrinking violets allowed.
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The two all-time favorite characters of Shakespeare's plays are Falstaff and Hamlet, and it is exciting to have the opportunity to read together the plays that these two superstars inhabit, Henry IV, Part 1, and Hamlet. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
speech explication, tavern crew, contemporary improvisation, nunnery scene, gib cat, preparing scenes, sullied flesh, legitimate claimant, genealogy chart, food for powder, acting groups, choral reading Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Prince Hal, King Henry, Pub Crawlers, Homework Ask, Lady Percy, Edmund Mortimer, The Riverside Shakespeare, Gad's Hill, Boar's Head, Jack Falstaff, John of Gaunt, The Black Prince, Henry Bolingbroke, Lady Mortimer, New Folger, Player King, Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, Harry Percy, Homework Tell, Kenneth Branagh, King Richard, Lionel of Antwerp, Michael Tolaydo, Oxford English Dictionary New!
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The two all-time favorite characters of Shakespeare's plays are Falstaff and Hamlet, and it is exciting to have the opportunity to read together the plays that these two superstars inhabit, Henry IV, Part 1, and Hamlet. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
speech explication, tavern crew, contemporary improvisation, nunnery scene, gib cat, preparing scenes, sullied flesh, legitimate claimant, genealogy chart, food for powder, acting groups, choral reading Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Prince Hal, King Henry, Pub Crawlers, Homework Ask, Lady Percy, Edmund Mortimer, The Riverside Shakespeare, Gad's Hill, Boar's Head, Jack Falstaff, John of Gaunt, The Black Prince, Henry Bolingbroke, Lady Mortimer, New Folger, Player King, Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, Harry Percy, Homework Tell, Kenneth Branagh, King Richard, Lionel of Antwerp, Michael Tolaydo, Oxford English Dictionary New!
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- King Henry (Structural Readers) by William Shakespeare on 8 pages
- Romeo and Juliet (Simply Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 5 pages
- Romeo And Juliet (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Saddleback Classics) by William Shakespeare on 5 pages
- Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare on 5 pages
- Romeo and Juliet (Penguin Readers, Level 3) by William Shakespeare on 5 pages
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