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English IV
Goal 4, Objective 4.01
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- The Trial of Hamlet
- In this lesson students have the chance to research courtroom procedure to try Hamlet for the murder of Polonius. Then, with some students in the roles of characters from the play, the class will conduct the trial of Shakespeare's most famous anti-hero.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
- By Ross White.
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- Analyzing character in "Hamlet" through epitaphs
- Students compose epitaphs for deceased characters in Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, paying particular attention to how their words appeal to the senses, create imagery, suggest mood, and set tone. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible"
- Students examine some of Arthur Miller's historical sources and read a summary of the historical events in Salem. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities
- From Dr. Seuss to Jonathan Swift: Exploring the history behind the satire
- In this lesson, after exploring the historical allusions in Dr. Seuss’s The Butter Battle Book, the whole class discusses the history behind a passage from Gulliver’s Travels. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Identifying and understanding the fallacies used in advertising
- Students examine the fallacies that they encounter daily through exposure to advertising. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- In literature, interpretation is the thing
- This lesson challenges students to examine the relationship between the text and a reader’s interpretation. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Literary scrapbooks online: An electronic reader-response project
- This lesson leads students to reflect on and respond to literature by creating an online scrapbook. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Monsters
- In this lesson, from ARTSEDGE, students use Beowulf to investigate views about “monsters” in society. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 Visual Arts Education, Music Education, and English Language Arts)
- Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- Paying attention to technology: Exploring a fictional technology
- This lesson asks students to complete a short survey to establish their beliefs about technology and then compare their opinions to the ideas in a novel that depicts technology (such as 1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 and 11–12 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Reading literature in translation: "Beowulf" as a case study
- This lesson introduces students to the verse form and poetic techniques used in various translations of Beowulf. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Renaissance Humanism in Hamlet and The Birth of Venus
- Students use visual and literary tools to identify, analyze, and explain how elements in Botticelli's painting The Birth of Venus and examples from Shakespeare's Hamlet illustrate the philosophy of Renaissance Humanism. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Weaving the multigenre web
- In this lesson, students read novels, analyze the literary elements, and create a multigenre project to present information to their peers. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts)
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
