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Monologue Archive
Grades
8 to 12
In the Classroom
If you are beginning podcasting in your clases, monologues could provide some material for your students to try. Consider creating a collection of monlogues on a certain theme or a "monologue of the week" podcast for your literature or drama class.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Mark's Guide to Whose Line is it Anyway
Grades
7 to 12tag(s): literature (218)
In the Classroom
This can be a great lesson starter, particularly on those dreary days when kids don't want to work. For lower level kids, it is a brain exercise for such things as the alphabet game (which is more difficult than it first seems!). For higher level kids, you can substitute characters from literature with a situation from the story itself or from history with imaginative "what if" dialogue for actual events.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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English @ the Movies - Raymond Weschler
Grades
8 to 12tag(s): movies (53)
In the Classroom
Teachers planning to show a classic film in class should check this site for information to help their ESL students better understand the film. You can also use this site to help with literature that has been made into a film. If you are showing more current films, ask students about phrases they don't understand and list them out using Padlet, reviewed here; with Padlet you can create columns and list the different meanings for the phrases.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Speech Accent Archive - George Mason University
Grades
6 to 12In the Classroom
Make this one available to the cast members of your school play or for in-class skits. You could also share some of the sound files as you study literature written in dialect to students can "hear" what it really sounds like. By listening to English accents all over the world, literature teachers may want to encourage authentic oral readings. Make sure you have speakers on your computer - and turn up the volume!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Absolute Shakespeare
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): elizabethan (13), plays (29), shakespeare (95)
In the Classroom
Students seem to be prepared to think reading Shakespeare is hard. Engage them by starting with the summary of the play you plan to read. Next employ Read Ahead, reviewed here, to develop a guided reading activity, Next, enhance student reading by allowing students to highlight parts of the text with the part of the summary as an interpretation. Finally, extend student learning by having student groups create a reader's theater play for Shakespeare you used. Need some help with reader's theater? Take a look at Literacy Connections, reviewed here, many guides for teachers and students about incorporating, writing, and performing a reader's theater play. Find information about reader's theater by scrolling down the main page and finding a menu list on the right.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Shakespeare for Kids - Folger Library
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): elizabethan (13), england (51), plays (29), shakespeare (95)
In the Classroom
Share some Shakespearean insults and vocabulary by way of introduction to students on a projector or interactive whiteboard before allowing students to use it individually or with a partner. Access the sections entitled "games, challenges and puzzles," and save them as a favorite on classroom computers for use as a learning center or station. Have students complete some of the puzzles or crosswords as a way to review a unit on the Playwright or courtship, courtly love and of course - Queen Elizabeth. Challenge students explore the site and create a quick presentation of what they learned. Students can create brief online posters using a tool such as Padlet, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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TheaterCrafts
Grades
6 to 12Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Musicals 101
Grades
6 to 12Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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TeachersFirst: The Hamlet Quizzes - TeachersFirst
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): hamlet (8), plays (29), shakespeare (95)
In the Classroom
Share these quizzes as a way to check for understanding while students read the play. As an extension, invite students to create their own scene-by-scene or act-by-act quizzes for classmates to try, using a tool such as Easy Test Maker, reviewed here or Kubbu, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Perfect Mate - Romeo and Juliet - TeachersFirst
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): romeo and juliet (3), shakespeare (95)
In the Classroom
The survey handout included in this lesson makes it a perfect starter for the study of Romeo and Juliet. As you read the play, you could extend the idea by having students complete the same survey as Montague or Capulet parents!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Shakespeare Web
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): shakespeare (95)
In the Classroom
Save this site as a favorite and use it as a learning center or station - in particular, the Poetry Machine during a unit on writing poetry. A very creative and fun way to help students get their creative juices flowing. A great resource for a Language Arts and Literature classroom.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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A Compendium of Common Knowledge
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): elizabethan (13), shakespeare (95)
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Sparknotes - Twelfth Night
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): shakespeare (95)
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Twelfth Night - Entire Play - Mass. Instit. Technol.
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): shakespeare (95)
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Sparknotes - The Tempest
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): shakespeare (95), tempest (3)
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The Tempest - Study questions
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): shakespeare (95), tempest (3)
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The Tempest - Full text - Mass. Instit. Technol.
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): shakespeare (95), tempest (3)
In the Classroom
In a class where textbooks may be short this is an excellent site to insure everyone has access to "The Tempest." This would also be useful for a class reading of the play. Open the site on the interactive whiteboard or projector, and click on the link that allows you to display the full play on one fluid page. From this point, assign students parts and let them read aloud. Just make sure to keep up with the scrolling as students read!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Sparknotes - Taming of the Shrew
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): shakespeare (95)
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Taming of the Shrew - Full Text - Mass. Instit. Technol.
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): shakespeare (95)
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In a class where textbooks may be short this is an excellent site to insure everyone has access to "Taming of the Shrew." This would also be useful for a class reading of the play. Open the site on the interactive whiteboard or projector, and click on the link that allows you to display the full play on one fluid page. From this point, assign students parts and let them read aloud. Just make sure to keep up with the scrolling as students read!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Sparknotes - Othello
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): othello (2), shakespeare (95)
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