Explaining Character in Shakespeare

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 15.02.06

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Demographics
  4. Essential Understanding/Questions
  5. Understanding Character in Shakespeare
  6. Strategies
  7. Teacher Resources
  8. Classroom Activities
  9. Annotated Bibliography
  10. Appendix
  11. Notes

Examining Shakespeare’s Characters, Character’s Choices and the Consequences to Make Them Relevant to Middle School

Michelle Wiedenmann

Published September 2015

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Appendix

Appendix A: Common Core Standards

RL.6.3: Describe how a particular story or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.

RL.6.7: Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they "see" and "hear" when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch

RL.6.9 Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes.

Rl.6.10: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

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