Teachers nationwide have been enthusiastically recommending this unique series from the Folger Shakespeare Library's Teaching Shakespeare Institute. This text includes provocative essays written by scholars to refresh both teacher and student, successful and understandable techniques for teaching through performance, and teaching methods that engage students at all levels.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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Your students will own Shakespeare!,
By wandering goose (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth & A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Folger Library) (Paperback)
I've been using this series for the last seven years and have found it works with almost any age group from Junior High to High School (The lessons could really be adapted for any age). Students are up on their feet, analyzing material, making decisions, having a blast. I read some of the lessons thinking, "No way will my kids go for this." When I challenged myself to try them, they were extremely successful. Shakespeare was never meant to be read sitting still. There are lessons that appear drama based, but these are plays people! (Take this from someone who is not comfortable acting - this is worth the risk.) In order to act out a scene or show subtext, students have to be able to analyze the text and understand it. These lessons guide them through every step! My students felt progressively confident in their ability to understand Shakespeare without my help. On my end-of-the-year survey, 95% of my kids said the Shakespeare Unit was their favorite! At the beginning of the year, it was the unit they feared the most. Try it out!
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Full of fantastic activities that help make Shakespeare fun!,
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This review is from: Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth & A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Folger Library) (Paperback)
The Shakespeare Set Free Series offers wonderful activities to get students to see that Shakespeare is fun! The lessons are creative and encourage cooperative learning. The lessons I've used are the ones students have reacted most positively towards. Exclamations of "that was cool" are the proof!
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent!,
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This review is from: Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth & A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Folger Library) (Paperback)
My seventh graders loved Midsummer after the activities we did with this book. The activities that dealt with Shakespeare's language were particularly helpful and engaging. I now have a class full of kids who like Shakespeare.
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Many students of Shakespeare know only a few plays, usually tragedies-most often Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and maybe Hamlet. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
promptbook pages, optional writing assignment, memorization passage, language tricks, grading guide, scene aloud, eighth count, choral reading, acting companies, word journals, assign parts, innocent flower Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lady Macbeth, Midsummer Night's Dream, Friar Lawrence, Homework Review, Lady Capulet, King James, Homework Assign, Memorization Practice, First Witch, Peter Quince, Third Witch, Michael Tolaydo, Second Witch, Royal Shakespeare Company, Homework Ask, Lady Macduff, New York, Queen Mab, The Writing Company, Shakespearean Subtext, Verb Inflections, King Duncan, Birnam Wood, Robin Goodfellow, Three-Dimensional Shakespeare New!
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Many students of Shakespeare know only a few plays, usually tragedies-most often Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and maybe Hamlet. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
promptbook pages, optional writing assignment, memorization passage, language tricks, grading guide, scene aloud, eighth count, choral reading, acting companies, word journals, assign parts, innocent flower Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lady Macbeth, Midsummer Night's Dream, Friar Lawrence, Homework Review, Lady Capulet, King James, Homework Assign, Memorization Practice, First Witch, Peter Quince, Third Witch, Michael Tolaydo, Second Witch, Royal Shakespeare Company, Homework Ask, Lady Macduff, New York, Queen Mab, The Writing Company, Shakespearean Subtext, Verb Inflections, King Duncan, Birnam Wood, Robin Goodfellow, Three-Dimensional Shakespeare New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Romeo and Juliet (Simply Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 21 pages
- Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare on 21 pages
- Romeo And Juliet (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Saddleback Classics) by William Shakespeare on 21 pages
- Romeo and Juliet (Penguin Readers, Level 3) by William Shakespeare on 21 pages
- Romeo & Juliet by Charles Lamb on 15 pages
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