Irresistible ShakespeareScholastic Inc., 2001 - 80 pages Make Shakespeare come to life through these exciting, reproducible scenes from his famous plays, such as Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and As You Like It. Each scene is accompanied by creative mini-lessons and motivating activities to help you and your students explore meter, metaphor, alliteration, imagery, and much more. This book also includes background information, a glossary of helpful terms, and thoughtful questions to help students interpret the scenes and understand the conventions of Elizabethan drama -- and fall in love with Shakespeare. Book jacket. |
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Contents
Cracking Open a Play | 6 |
Whats at Play in a Novel? | 9 |
A Close Reading Exercise | 11 |
Detective Work | 13 |
PopUp Language | 15 |
Six Frequently Asked Questions | 17 |
The Fundamentals of Meter | 19 |
Poetry and Prose | 22 |
The Poetry Tool Kit | 25 |
Determined to Be a Villain | 28 |
This Story Shall the Good Man Teach His Son | 32 |
We Have Seen Better Days | 38 |
Am I Not Christopher Sly? | 45 |
The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth | 53 |
Two Blushing Pilgrims | 65 |
A Glossary for Shakespeare Studies | 78 |
Common terms and phrases
alliteration Ask students breath CAPULET characters Christopher Sly comedy comic create daDum daDum daDum dear DEMETRIUS Discussion Questions doth dramatic DUKE SENIOR Enter example Exercise Exit eyes fairy world fight fool Forest of Arden FRIAR LAURENCE Ganymede gentle hast hate hath HELENA Hermia honour HOSTESS HUNTSMAN iamb iambic pentameter JAQUES KING HENRY lady language look lord lovers LYSANDER Macbeth Madam marry medias res metaphor metrical Midsummer Night's Dream Montague Name Date night novel NURSE OBERON opening ORLANDO passages personification play playlet poetic Poetry Tool prose PUCK reading Shakespeare Reproducible rhyme rhythms Richard Richard III Romeo and Juliet scan scansion Scholastic Professional Books Shakespeare Shrew similes sleep speak story students to read sweet Taming Teaching Shakespeare tell thee thou art Titania trochaic tetrameter trochee TYBALT unstressed verse villain WESTMORELAND What's Happening wilt WITCH words write