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Shakespeare
Bring on the Bard
Active Drama Approaches for Shakespeare’s Diverse Student Readers
Kevin Long and Mary T. Christel As Shakespeare remains a staple of English language arts curricula, evolving standards challenge teachers to put students—not a text—at the center of a reading experience in order to support diverse readers and learners. Active drama approaches position students to engage with a rich text through lowrisk speaking and improvisation activities as a part of any ELA classroom. The Folio Technique builds on those activities and introduces students to the clues Shakespeare built into his text that allow actors to efficiently understand their characters’ text, context, and subtext. Teachers can use excerpts from the First Folio of 1623 along with a mass market paperback or digital edition of a play to get closer to Shakespeare’s intentions and to explore the challenges the Bard’s modern editors face. This text offers suggestions for using parallel text, graphic, and abridged editions of Shakespeare’s works as well as activities using “cue scripts” and a variety of viewing experiences.
244 pp. | 2019 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814103821 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814103838
Reading Shakespeare Film First
Mary Ellen Dakin Foreword by Alan B. Teasley Mary Ellen Dakin asserts that we need to read Shakespeare in triplicate—as the stuff of transformative literature, theater, and film. She guides teachers and students with carefully researched and classroomtested strategies for crossing over from Shakespeare’s early modern English to modern film and illustrated productions of his plays. Through a wealth of classroom vignettes, lessons, and handouts, we see how the “old” language of Shakespeare is constantly renewed through the “new” language of film.
179 pp. | 2012 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814139073 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814139080
Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults
Mary Ellen Dakin Although the works of William Shakespeare are universally taught in high schools, many students have a similar reaction when confronted with the difficult task of reading Shakespeare for the first time. In Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults, Mary Ellen Dakin seeks to help teachers better understand not just how to teach the Bard’s work, but also why. By celebrating the collaborative reading of Shakespeare’s plays, Dakin explores different methods for getting students engaged in—and excited about—the texts as they learn to construct meaning from Shakespeare’s sixteenth-century language and connect it to their twenty-first-century lives. Filled with teacher-tested classroom activities, this book draws on often-taught plays, including Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
233 pp. | 2009 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814139042 $30.36 member/$37.99 nonmember
Teaching Macbeth
A Differentiated Approach
NEW Available April 2022
Lyn Fairchild Hawks Macbeth, a story of ambition, terror, and conscience, speaks to our students and our era. Through differentiated instruction, Lyn Fairchild Hawks offers ways to engage all students with different readiness levels and interests. With lessons highlighting key scenes, film analysis activities, close reading assignments, and preassessments and summative assessments, this guide offers a wide range of exciting options to challenge your learners. With independent reading matches linked by theme, activities and projects mirroring professional roles, and relevance hooks to meet students’ interests, Macbeth can come alive for all students. Included are DIY tips for lesson design and a companion website with over 40 ready-to-use handouts.
280 pp. | 2022 | Grades 7–12 | ISBN 9780814151812 $30.36 member/$37.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814151228
Teaching Julius Caesar
A Differentiated Approach
Lyn Fairchild Hawks Julius Caesar continues to resonate with high school students and remains a favorite text in classrooms everywhere. Through differentiated instruction, Lyn Fairchild Hawks offers solutions for bringing the play to life for all students— those with various interests, readiness levels, and learning styles. This book is a comprehensive curriculum for teaching the play and offers: ● lesson plans highlighting key scenes ● mini-lessons for reading and writing ● performance activities ● close reading assignments for ELL, novice, on-target, and advanced learners ● quizzes, writing assignments, and compacting guidelines A companion website features additional student assessment and teaching materials that may be used in conjunction with this book.
219 pp. | 2010 | Grades 7–12 | ISBN 9780814151082 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember
Teaching Romeo and Juliet
A Differentiated Approach
Delia DeCourcy, Lyn Fairchild, and Robin Follet Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare’s mosttaught plays, yet teachers are always looking for new and effective ways to make the material engaging and adaptable for all students—from those struggling to read to those able to analyze complicated sonnets. By using the concept of differentiated instruction, authors Delia DeCourcy, Lyn Fairchild, and Robin Follet provide a practical, easy-to-use guide for teaching the play that addresses a wide range of student readiness levels, interests, and learning styles. An entire curriculum for teaching the play, the book features lesson plans, scaffolded reading activities, quizzes, mini-lessons, compacting guidelines, and close reader handouts—all geared toward different levels of readiness.
