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Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
by Mary Ellen Dakin
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| Grades | 9 – 12 |
| Type | Book |
| Pages | 233 |
| Published | January 2011 |
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In Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults, Mary Ellen Dakin seeks to help teachers better understand not just how to teach the Bard’s work, but also why.
By celebrating the collaborative reading of Shakespeare’s plays, Dakin explores different methods for getting students engaged—and excited—about the texts as they learn to construct meaning from Shakespeare’s sixteenth-century language and connect it to their twenty-first-century lives.
Filled with teacher-tested classroom activities, this book draws on often-taught plays, including:
- Hamlet
- Romeo and Juliet
- Macbeth
- Julius Caesar
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The ideas and strategies presented here are designed to be used with any of the Bard’s plays and are intended to help all populations of students—mainstream, minority, bilingual, advanced, at-risk.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Analyzing Advice as an Introduction to Shakespeare
Popular culture provides an introduction to Shakespeare's poetic devices in this lesson, which asks students to explore an excerpt from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Becoming History Detectives Using Shakespeare’s Secret
Is the case closed on the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays? Student history detectives explore the evidence for and against one of the possible alternatives, Edward deVere, using the novel Shakespeare’s Secret plus a variety of online sources.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
All’s Well that Sells Well: A Creative Introduction to Shakespeare
Students compare attending a performance at The Globe Theater with attending a modern theater production or movie. They then create a commercial for an Elizabethan audience promoting a modern product.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Constructing New Understanding Through Choral Readings of Shakespeare 
After reading The Tempest or any other play by William Shakespeare, students work in small groups to plan, compose, and perform a choral reading based on a character or theme.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Tragic Love: Introducing Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
This lesson introduces students to William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet by having them examine the ideas of tragedy and tragic love by connecting the story to their own lives.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan
An Introduction to Julius Caesar Using Multiple-Perspective Universal Theme Analysis
This resource is an introduction to William Shakespeare’s tragic play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, through the study of universal themes using multiple-perspective investigations of betrayal scenarios.
