Shakespeare

Analyze the Learner

  -11th grade English -small, suburban High School -20 students: 10 boys, 10 girls -85% white, 10% African-American,

5% Asian  -One student with ADHD

Main Objective The students will read William

Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and present a project with an assigned group.

The students will learn this within a weeks period.

There will be a 90% degree of proficiency.

Technology Technology & Materials:

• Computers• YouTube • Articles

Monday• See what the class already knows about Shakespeare

• Discuss his background/read articleWhat year he lived/died?What was going on when he was alive?

What was the culture/their response to his works?Elizabethan periodRead act 1Get assigned groups

Tuesday• The impact Shakespeare had on his society

• How that affects our society today• Can you still relate to a writing that was written that long ago? Why or why not?

• Read articles/look at works• Read act 2• Work on group project

Wednesday• Look at the different works of Shakespeare• Read scenes from his comedies, tragedies, and romantic dramas

• Compare and contrast to TV shows and movies that are popular today

• YouTube clips will be shown of adaptations of Shakespeare’s works

• Read act 3• Post on facebook• Work on group project

Thursday• Split the classroom into groups and give them

scenes from different plays of Shakespeare’s• Have them practice to do their own adaptation of

the scene on Friday• Students can modernize it, keep it the same, or do

anything as long as the content/message stays the same

• Students will use laptops to rewrite scenes and print out

Read act 4 Post on facebook Work on group project

Friday• Each group will perform their scenes

• Read act 5• Assigned article over weekend• Post on facebook

Works Cited (2003). In Folger Shakespeare Library. Retrieved

February 2, 2015, from http://www.folger.edu/documents/Folger_Hamlet_cg.pd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIcCE3s_rFc William Shakespeare (2011). In History.com.

Retrieved February 2, 2015, from http://www.history.com/topics/british-history/william-shakespeare

The Elizabethan Age. (n.d.). In National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved February 2, 2015, from http://www.shakespeareinamericancommunities.org/education/elizabethan-age