NCTE INBOX

April 19, 2005
...ideas


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Happy Birthday to William Shakespeare! On April 23, 1564, William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-on-Avon. Celebrate the bard with the strategies outlined in the following resources: "Voices from Shakespeare's Day" (E) "Using Drama in Thematic Teaching" (E) "Creative Drama through Scaffolded Plays in the Language Arts Classroom" (E) "Where There's a Will, There's a Play" (M) Analyzing Advice as an Introduction to Shakespeare (M) Literary Characters on Trial: Combining Persuasion and Literary Analysis (M-S) "Teaching Shakespeare to Learning Disabled Students" (S) "Shakespeare through the Lens of a New Age" (S-C) "Helping High School Juniors Get Comfortable with Shakespeare's English," from Grammar Alive! A Guide for Teachers (S) Star-Crossed Lovers Online: Romeo and Juliet for a Digital Age (S) Renaissance Humanism in Hamlet and "The Birth of Venus" (S) Discovering Traditional Sonnet Forms (S-C) "Engaging with Shakespeare through Translation" (S-C) "OPINION: Introducing Shakespeare" (C) For more ideas for teaching Shakespeare, see the the ReadWriteThink calendar entry (E-M-S), which includes links to additional articles, lesson plans, and other resources; and check out the latest NCTE books on Shakespeare, Performance Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare (S-C). NOTE: Free access to journal articles mentioned in this Inbox is provided for 21 days. After this free access period expires, articles are available to journal subscribers only. This Inbox Idea was published 11-16-2004. Initials in annotations indicate academic level of the resource (E=Elementary, M=Middle, S=Secondary, C=College, G=General).