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Teacher Lessons and Student Projects for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Lessons and projects by students and teachers on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Airy Nothing: A Midsummer Night's Dream Web Quest
This Web Quest has students look at the lines about the poet, the lover, and the lunatic - from A Midsummer Night's Dream - and by sending them to various sites across the web - hopes to have them come to not a only a better understanding of those lines, but to have them make a number of other criticial thinking connections. They will examine ideas as diverse as William Blake, Don Quixote, Edward VIII (and his abdication of the throne), and Robert
A Midsummer Night's Dream Unit
This unit, designed to fit the Understanding by Design model, was written for middle school, but could be easily adapted. Depending on the class' familiarity with Shakespeare, an introduction to the author and his plays can be done first. With my class, I adapted a day of Shakespeare's bio and information about the Globe Theatre from other internet sources.
Before reading the play, it's best to arrange the classroom into a stage format - perhaps even with a white flag hanging by the door, as would have been the case for a comedy in Shakespeare's day - and each student is assigned a part (or parts) to read during the unit.
