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Are you looking for a way to get EVERY student in the class involved? Or to IMPRESS an administrator during a long observation? This activity covers both!
Students will work in groups ranging from small to whole class in order to translate and sequence lines from the sonnets. Two sonnets are include
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If your students are struggling to understand William Shakespeare's language, try this translation activity. This is a great lesson to teach before jumping into one of The Bard's plays to help familiarize students with the foreign, circa 1600's English.
This handout asks students to look closely at
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Included are 5 sonnets written by William Shakespeare. The activity is focused on helping students interpret the language, as well as the meaning behind each sonnet. The worksheets have space to translate the sonnets into a modern day translation and room at the bottom to discuss theme.
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Perhaps the greatest obstacle between Shakespeare’s plays and student audiences is the unfamiliar language. Now you can minimize the challenge by introducing your students to the language of Shakespeare in a way that is fun, meaningful and memorable. This comprehensive bundle—including a 28-slide P
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Shakespeare Language: Understanding Shakespeare's language is always a challenge for middle and high school students. Before you begin reading any Shakespearean play, use this resource to prepare your students for the terminology they may encounter. ================================================
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Also included in:Â SHAKESPEARE INTRODUCTORY RESOURCES
This bundle contains 20 activities to use as introductory lessons for any Shakespeare unit.It includes:Shakespeare Insult KitShakespeare Translation Practice & KeyShakespeare’s Vocabulary DictionaryShakespeare Fun-FillerFamous Sayings we Owe to ShakespeareSonnet Close Reading Exercise with Sonne
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Do your students hate Shakespeare? Is that a stupid question? Perhaps the greatest obstacle between Shakespeare’s plays and student audiences is the unfamiliar language. Quite different from the language we use today, the Elizabethan English found in Shakespeare’s works presents a challenge to eve
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This webquest and presentation for interactive notebooks are a great way to start any unit on William Shakespeare's plays or poetry. Students will complete various activities and exercises to understand Shakespeare's contributions to English, his vocabulary, the rhythm of iambic pentameter, and key
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Also included in:Â Interactive Notebooks for Secondary ELA - Yearlong Bundle
This webquest and presentation are a great way to start any unit on William Shakespeare's plays or poetry. Students will complete various activities and exercises to understand Shakespeare's contributions to English, his vocabulary, the rhythm of iambic pentameter, and key grammatical points. -->
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Also included in:Â Shakespeare Resource Bundle
Bring some excitement to your Shakespeare unit with these insult task cards. With 32 task cares featuring different insults from Shakespeare's plays, these cards can be used in a variety of ways. Put students in group, giving them a bunch of cards with instructions to translate as many insults as p
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The MacBundle!
This product includes five different classroom-tested resources for Macbeth:
â™› Macbeth Final Test:
This is a fifty question final test for Shakespeare's play. The assessment consists of four different sections and includes the answer key:
I. Twenty two True/False questions
II. Ten M
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This is an excellent unit consisting of 14 pages for students to complete at any time of the year but especially, Halloween. I found that if the content was of interest to boys, than you had a better chance of success. The girls have more eclectic interests and will enjoy the activities.I have taken
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Romeo and Juliet Unit BundleThis big bundle contains the following:- A unit for teaching students how to select, present, and analyze text evidence from Romeo and Juliet- A Common Core Part 3 English Regents Exam Guided Parallel Task- A huge study guide with cloze notes and important passages (very
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Students always have a blast converting the famous balcony scene into a conversation between teens in today's modern tech era. Not only do students have to read, understand, and make the translation into modern English on their own, but they then have to actually create the conversation via social
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PDF Download [with answer key!] Engage your students in this hilarious quest to conquer the words and language of Elizabethan/Shakespearean English! Students take the Shakespearean version on modern song lyrics, show themes, and movie lines and compete to see who can truly identify the correct words
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Also included in:Â Complete Renaissance Unit Bundle!
Students will get to explore Shakespeare's language alongside a modern translation and add movements to demonstrate their understanding. At the very end, they'll perform a lipsync of their lines.
Full lesson instructions and handouts can be seen in the preview.
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Text translation and understanding how an actor can deliver subtext are among the most basic skills for accessing Shakespeare. In preparing to teach Romeo and Juliet, it can be helpful to offer students practice understanding text and subtext so that they are more comfortable, confident, and able to
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Also included in:Â BUNDLE: Creative, Analytical Shakespeare Resources
I used this with a seventh grade unit reading The Taming of the Shrew (Sparknotes No Fear Shakespeare translation) as a fun extension, on a day where we had shortened periods. My students enjoyed arguing over where some of these expressions came from, and looking them up on their iPads to find out.
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OBJECTIVE: I can translate a SONNET into simple language. DEFINITION: A sonnet has 14 lines, follows a strict rhyming pattern, and REQUIRES 10 syllables per line.
Also included in:Â Poetry Bundle for Middle School
Help students translate Romeo and Juliet's prologue using this quick matching activity. Students will match the original text to a modern translation to determine just what Shakespeare is trying to tell us!
What do these lines mean? That is the question. This chart focuses on the famous to be or not to be soliloquy in Hamlet. It helps students translate Shakespeare's language into modern day words that they can understand. Each line is numbered, and they take the phrase line by line.A key is included.
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This activity challenges students to translate Shakespeare's language into modern American English. Students then use what they comprehend from the text to analyze the deeper meaning.
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Also included in:Â Hamlet Unit Materials
Use the No Fear Shakespeare translation (available free online) to help students translate each line of the Act 1, Prologue. This process helps students differentiate between the paragraph-style translation in NFS vs. the line-by-line translation they are required to complete. By the time they're fi
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In this activity, students work to "translate" Helena's monologue from Act I sc. i of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" into modern English. This activity can be used as students begin the play so that they can become more accustomed to the language. A key is included, as well as hel
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