This is an awesome activity to expose students to the larger context of the play and build the background knowledge necessary to understand the play. My students enjoyed the freedom to choose their own questions. They learned so much more than required by the questions because of the wide-reading they had to do to find the answers. They were able to practice their research skills, including note-taking, summarizing, and using the MLA format to document sources.
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Over the last 13 years, I have taught 7th grade through junior college, so the lesson plans that I share here could come from any of those grade levels. I am currently teaching 10th grade reading and world literature and 11th grade reading and American literature. I've been teaching reading for seven years, so most of my lessons were designed with my reluctant readers in mind. Recently I taught an honors level 9th grade class along with my remedial classes; I was surprised by how much my honors students learned when I used some of the same lessons (vocabulary, especially) that I was using with my remedial students. I think all of our students benefit if we slow down and emphasize quality over quantity.
