Shakespeare and Human Character

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 09.03.01

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Objectives
  3. Instructional Information
  4. Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Annotated Bibliography
  7. Resources
  8. Teacher - Student - Classroom Resources
  9. APPENDIX A - Implementing District Standards
  10. APPENDIX B - Sample of Hal's speech / worksheet as referenced in Scaffolding
  11. APPENDIX C - Character Analysis with Suzie as referenced in Activity One
  12. APPENDIX D - Cleopatra's speech → First speech referenced in Activity One
  13. APPENDIX E - Enobarbus's speech → Second speech referenced in Activity One
  14. APPENDIX F - Cleopatra's speech → Third speech referenced in Activity One
  15. APPENDIX G - Movie Maker Assignment and Rubric
  16. Endnotes

That Lady is Loca! or Speech as the Main Method of Characterization in Shakespeare's Plays

Amanda Maureen Stefanski

Published September 2009

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Endnotes

  • 1 "Fast Facts." Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Website http://www.cms.k12.nc.us/MEDIAROOM/ABOUTUS/Pages/FastFacts.aspx (accessed July 9, 2009).
  • 2 Sylvan Barnet, "Shakespeare: An Overview" in Henry IV, Part One, vii - lxi.
  • 3 "Background: The First Globe." Shakespeare's Globe. http://www.shakespeares-globe.org/abouttheglobe/background/thefirstglobe/ (accessed on July 9, 2009).
  • 4 "Shakespeare's Globe." Shakespeare Resource Center. http://www.bardweb.net/globe.html (accessed on July 9, 2009).
  • 5 "Macbeth Plot Summary." No Sweat Shakespeare. http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/ (accessed July 9, 2009).
  • 6 Aristotle, "Character," in Poetics, 25.
  • 7 Charlie Rose interview with Harold Bloom on Monday, November 2, 1998 - available on http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/4618 (accessed July 11, 2009)
  • 8 Samuel Johnson, "Preface to Shakespeare." Available at http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/prefabr.html (accessed July 10, 2009).
  • 9 Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, 2.
  • 1 0 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in Coleridge's Writings on Shakespeare,101.
  • 1 1 William Hazlitt, in Characters of Shakespear's Plays. Available at http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/criticism/hazlittw_charsp/charsp_titlepage.html (accessed July 11, 2009).
  • 1 2 Emma Smith, in The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare, 3.
  • 1 3 William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part One, I ii 199 - 221.
  • 1 4 James Wertsch and Peeter Tulyiste, "Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky and Contemporary Developmental Psychology," in A Century of Developmental Psychology, 333-355.
  • 1 5 Kathleen Hogan and Michael Pressley, Scaffolding Student Learning: Instructional Approaches and Issues, 185.
  • 1 6 Pat Beckman, "Strategy Instruction" in ERIC Digest. Available online at http://www.ericdigests.org/2003-5/strategy.htm (accessed on July 12, 2009)
  • 1 7 H. Lee Swanson, Interventions for Students with Learning Disabilities: A Meta-Analysis of Treatment Outcomes.

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