Shakespeare and Human Character

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 09.03.05

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Overview
  3. Objective
  4. Strategies for across-the-curriculum teaching
  5. Shakespeare Overview: Theme to be taught
  6. Classroom Activities
  7. Appendix A
  8. Appendix B
  9. Appendix C
  10. Appendix D
  11. Teacher Resources:
  12. Student Resources:

Shakespeare on the Cell Phone: Texting Romance

Lisa A. Ernst

Published September 2009

Tools for this Unit:

Teacher Resources:

Aageson, Colleen and Marcie Blumberg. Shakespeare for Kids his Life and Times, Chicago: Chicago Review Press, Inc., 1999.

This book brings creative activities that include the content areas of Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Art, and Technology.

Crystal, David. Think on my Words' Exploring Shakespeare's Language, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

This book looks inside the writing style, pronunciatation, grammar, vocabulary, and conversational style of Shakespeare's' writings.

Doyle, John and Ray Lischnea. Shakespeare for Dummies, New York: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 1999.

This resource explains areas that one may have about the person and his plays. It demonstrates non-complexity for the novice.

Foster, Cass and Lynn G. Johnson. Shakespeare To Teach or not to Teach, Chandler, Arizona: Five Star Publications, 2004.

This resource demonstrates a more complex view of activities and lessons for the student.

The lessons could be used for the gifted student.

Harvey, Stephanie and Anne Goudvis. Strategies that Work 2 nd Edition Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement, Portland, Maine: 2007.

This book is in the second edition, the first one was essential in guiding me to increasing vocabulary for all of my students along with guiding reading comprehension.

Milner, Cork. The Everything Shakespeare Book 2 nd Edition, United States: Adams Media, an F + W Publications Co., 2008.

This book is a great resource for educators. It includes famous quotes, background information on Shakespeare's life and times and other great information in teaching the plays.

Nelson, Pauline and Todd Daubert. Starting with Shakespeare: Successfully Introducing Shakespeare to Children, United States: Teacher Ideas Press, 2000.

This resource book enables the teacher to bring depth of activities aligned to areas of concentration of subject matter tied to across the curriculum.

Perfect, Kathy. A. Poetry Lessons, New York: Scholastic, 2005.

This book enables the teacher to have examples in understanding poetry, poetic elements, enhance comprehension, develop fluency, create imagery, and use figurative language in designing curriculum in relation to the sonnets.

Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet, New York: Signet Classics, 1998.

This story of love, death, and family will be one of the books of Shakespeare that I attend to use in my 6 th grade class.

Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream, New York: Signet Classic, 1998.

This Shakespearean classic will be used along with the other romance in compare and contrast between the two from tragedy and comedy.

Comments:

Lisa A. Ernst

October 16, 2009 at 6:03 pm

Donors Choose

I am the author of this unit, I recently received full funding for a proposal that is named for this unit. The major funder which was Morgan Stanley of San Francisco-stated that they funded this proposal due to the fact that it tied into Literacy.

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