Explaining Character in Shakespeare

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 15.02.03

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Content Objectives
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Sample Learning Activities
  6. Appendix: Scaffolding Unit Instruction & Layout
  7. Appendix: Implementing District Standards- Virginia Standards of Learning
  8. Bibliography
  9. Notes

Fate or Action: Character Agency & What the 21st Century Student Gains from The Merchant of Venice

Christina Cancelli

Published September 2015

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Bibliography

Balser, Barbra. "Anti-Semitism and The Merchant of Venice : A Discussion Guide for Educators." Anti-Semitism and The Merchant of Venice : A Discussion Guide for Educators. 2006. Accessed July 7, 2015.

Carlin, Jerome. "The Case against ‘The Merchant of Venice’" The English Journal 42, no. 7 (1953): 388. Accessed July 12, 2015. www.jstor.org.

Desmet, Christy. "Shakespeare and YouTube: New Media Forms of the Bard." The English Journal 99, no. 1 (2013): 233-36.

Halio, Jay L. "Portia: Shakespeare's Matlock?" Law & Literature 5, no. 1 (1993): 57-64. Accessed June 13, 2015. http:// www.jstor.org/stable/743392.

Kish-Goodling, Donna M. "Using the Merchant of Venice in Teaching Monetary Economics." The Journal of Economic Education 29, no. 4 (1998): 330-39. Accessed July 7, 2015. http:// www.jstor.org/stable/1182923.

Lewis, Cynthia. "Antonio and Alienation in ‘The Merchant of Venice’" South Atlantic Review 48, no. 4 (1983): 19. Accessed June 19, 2015. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3199668.

Merriam-Webster, s.v. “usury,” Accessed July 31, 2015. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/usury.

Metzger, Mary Janell. "’Now by My Hood, a Gentle and No Jew’: Jessica, The Merchant of Venice, and the Discourse of Early Modern English Identity." PMLA 113, no. 1 (1998): 52-63. Accessed June 13, 2015. http:// www.jstor.org/stable/463408.

Packard, Edgar S. "The Study Club: Conflicts in "The Merchant of Venice"" The English Journal 11, no. 3 (1922): 184-87. Accessed June 17, 2015. http://www.jstor.org/stable/802857.

Robbins, Bruce. "Using ‘The Original Approach to Teach Shakespeare’" The English Journal 95, no. 1 (2005): 65-68. Accessed June 13, 2015. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30047400.

Shakespeare, William, and Alan Durband. The Merchant of Venice: Modern Version Side-by-side with Full Original Text. Woodbury, New York: Barron's, 1985.

Shakespeare, William, and Kenneth Myrick. The Merchant of Venice: With New and Updated Critical Essays and a Revised Bibliography. New York, New York: Signet Classic, 1998.

The New Oxford Annotated Bible. 1973. Revised Standard Edition. New York: Oxford University Press.

Winkler, Lisa K. "Celebrate Democracy! Teach about Censorship." English Journal 94, no. 5 (2005): 48.

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