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Teaching and Understanding the content in William Shakespeare’s Plays Samantha Angilletta Spring 2016 Ninth Grade Unit
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Teaching and Understanding the content in William Shakespeare’s Plays
Samantha AngillettaSpring 2016
Ninth Grade Unit
Integrating Technology While Teaching Shakespeare’s Romeo
and JulietTeaching ninth grader’s Shakespeare is not giving them a play
and simply assigning them to read and understand the content. One of the most difficult tasks when having Shakespeare in your curriculum is having your students interpret the Old
English writing and understand its meaning or “modernizing” it to present day language. Integrating technology when teaching Shakespeare is one of the most helpful tools because it further
assists students who need help understanding and interpreting the language used throughout the plays.
Overview
Throughout this presentation, you will be shown ways teachers can implement the use of videos, websites, blogs and apps into the classroom. In doing so students will be able to take both past and present learning skills and develop a great understanding for the curriculum that will allow them to achieve their academic learning goals.
Internet Related Images to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
The following slides in this presentation have websites along
with other technology savvy sources that are trusted and hold information that will help both the teaching and learning aspects when it comes to
understanding Shakespeare’s plays.
BLOG
Both Shakespeare Geek and No Sweat Shakespeare are blogs that contain not only helpful information for students who need help understanding Shakespeare, but who want to deepen their knowledge of his work or entertain themselves with the other excitingly fun aspects of the blogs and their overall site. Click on the pictures to be directed to the sites!
John and Warren King began the blog No
Sweat Shakespeare as your everyday
Shakespeare enthusiasts. Warren, John’s
father has a background as a teacher of
English literature in London and has worked
as Shakespeare consultant at London
Education Authority helping teachers to
understand how to make pleasurable in the
classroom. The goals for this blog and the
sites other features as well was to help
educate or assist students of all ages to
understand the great language of
Shakespeare.
Shakespeare Geek was created by a lover of Shakespeare named Duane. He began this blog because he wanted a place where all Shakespeare enthusiasts can go and converse about the topic, ask questions, or find out about the latest up to date Shakespeare content. Although the entire blog is not educational, if one were to post a blog about a misunderstanding of a play, its theme or the motifs…. The Shakespeare Geeks will be happy to answer and help you out because making someone deepen their understanding or love for Shakespeare is all Duane hopes for.
INSTRUCTIONAL YOUTUBE
VIDEOTeaching Shakespeare is what
the Royal Shakespeare Company solely focuses on.
After watching the video teachers will be able to gain new
methods and techniques regarding how to bring
Shakespeare into the classroom in a way that keeps students
engaged and wanting to deepen their knowledge on Shakespeare and his amazing work. For those
interested in seeing all the company has to offer click on the RSC logo in the top right corner to be directed its main
website.
PODCASTFolger Shakespeare Library is one of the national leaders for properly teaching Shakespeare grades K-12.When clicking the picture to the right you will be transferred to the section of the website http://www.folger.edu/ where many of the Shakespeare Unlimited podcasts are located. The site’s goal is to take those, (teachers and students) interested in Shakespeare and grant them the knowledge to become well educated on his plays and how his work impacted the world.
All of the podcasts are separated into different categories met to fit the needs of all the Shakespearian audience including understanding and alternative interpretations that will help students understand the language spoken during the Elizabethan Era.
Internet Resources to help with the topic of William Shakespeare’s
worksNo Fear Shakespeare
No Fear Shakespeare is a helpful section found on infamous Sparknotes website. Through this site, past qualified college graduates and educators work with specialists to create assistance such as No Fear Shakespeare where the confusion of understanding Shakespearean language can be defined and or translated into plain English to help students understand the content of his works.Shakespeare High
Shakespeare High is essentially a Shakespeare classroom online for students as well as a reliable instructional guide for educators teaching Shakespeare in the classroom. With helpful tools that allow students of all ages to further understand and grasp the major meanings of his works content, this site has a lot to offer from visuals to organized guides. For educators, many instructional guides and lesson plans are able to be accessed by teachers so that they can progress toward the best lessons that will help them teach Shakespeare and his works properly to their students.Shakespeare Help
Although Shakespeare Help is a website intended to help students understand Shakespeare, educators can also make use of the site by looking at the lesson plans, guides and overall content to get ideas for implementing the Shakespeare curriculum into the classroom. This site hold an number of categories to help guide students toward understand and grasping the main idea, motifs, symbols and themes in all of Shakespeare’s works and is a very reliable source to further ones education on Shakespeare.
Teaching Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet with the help of a Literary Analysis Outline –
KIDSPIRATION
Vocabulary Words from reading - When students are unsure about a word used in the play (i.e. afoot ) they can fill in the outline and then find its definition and record it for future reference.
Questions about the play that need clarification – When readers need a better understanding about a scene or occurrence while reading a play they can write down their question and come to class ready to discuss the question and have it answered.
Teaching Materials
• This worksheet is designed to help students organize their thoughts in preparation to complete a written assignment such as a close reading. When teaching Shakespeare, this type of worksheet allows students to figure out what their main focus is (main idea, theme, use of literary tools) and what content from the text supports what they are proving in their writing.
• Click on the worksheet to check out the website!
SwipeSpeare APP
This Shakespeare app was designed to make reading all of Shakespeare’s work not only more accessible, but with the modern to plain text swipe feature, SwipeSpeare makes reading and understanding Shakespeare's work that much easier for all. Click on the picture to download the app and see what other cool features the app has to offer such as its free Shakespeare Dictionary.
Shakespeare Literature Quiz &
Summary – BookRags APP
• This Shakespeare app was designed through BookRags Inc. As a teacher, assigning students to read certain Acts of a play, this app can help both myself and the students check for understanding. Upon opening the app students can review the content they read through the quizzes and study guides found in the app.
Click on the app logo to the left to download or read more
about what the app has to offer.
WHACK A BARD INTERACTIVE SMARTBOARD
GAME
This interactive game tests students on a variety of Shakespeare's works and engages the students with the physical aspect of throwing a koosh ball at the screen in order to “whack” a tile and reveal a review or critical thinking question. With this new technology, students can learn
Shakespeare while having fun with their peers at the same time!
Click on the picture to download this
interactive game on the Smart website!
Subject-Specific Internet-based Resource
TES is a great website to help educators teach their students specific curriculum based lessons. Shakespeare being one of them. Although some of the material has additional costs, the site offers many detailed lesson plans that will help teachers design the best fit lesson to successfully educate their students on Shakespeare based content ranging from personal information about his life to the content within his many plays, poems etc…
Click on the logo to visit the site!
Uses of the InternetSHAKESPEARE ONLINE!
Comedy History Tragedy Poetry
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It The Comedy of Errors
Cymbeline Love's Labours Lost
Measure for Measure The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Merchant of Venice A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Pericles, Prince of Tyre Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter's Tale
Henry IV, part 1 Henry IV, part 2
Henry V Henry VI, part 1 Henry VI, part 2 Henry VI, part 3
Henry VIII King John Richard II Richard III
Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus
Hamlet Julius Caesar
King Lear Macbeth Othello
Romeo and Juliet Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus
The Sonnets A Lover's Complaint The Rape of Lucrece
Venus and Adonis Funeral Elegy by W.S.
Shakespeare.mit.edu can be used by both teachers and students to access the complete works of Shakespeare.
This site gives students no excuse to say that they “forgot their book” at school and could not read the assigned text because of its easy accessibility.
For teachers, this is a great tool to use when having class discussions because the text can be projected on screen for the entire class.
Use of the Internet: Online Book Site The Literature Page is a
website that offers a wide range of books, plays, poems etc… all accessible to users online. When clicking on the Shakespeare tab a large number of his work is available to read. This is great for students and for teachers as well when covering Shakespeare’s great plays or poems in the classroom.
Use of the Internet – Interactive Website
Literary Wonderland is a website that allows students to learn about Shakespeare with an humorous twist. Throughout the site are various link such as the Teaching Center, which teaches users how to get around the site or Center Stage where some of Shakespeare's famous work like Macbeth are presented in different versions for the pleasure of their users.
Web 2.0 Modern Library is a website
that has a section devoted to fun Shakespeare activities.
Within this section are several interactive games that allow
the internet to be of great use when a teacher would like to
enhance student participation while teaching the topic of
Shakespeare in the classroom. Click on the snap shot of the game Name that Play to be directed to the Shakespeare
section of the site and try out some of the interactive games.
SLIDESHARE
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