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The Bard Isn't Hard: 10 Resources For Teaching Shakespeare

The Bard Isn't Hard: 10 Resources For Teaching Shakespeare | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
Teaching Shakespeare’s intrigues are not on the serving platter for today, there will be no Titus Andronicus’ baking boys into meat pies. We’re discussing love. Love is hard enough for a fifteen-year old to swallow.
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There are many great resources available on Shakespeare and this post provides a wide range of sites that may be of interest. The areas covered include:

* Best Shakespeare Sites including a Shakespeare search engine

* Shakespeare's Insults

* Knowmia demystifies MacBeth

* Introducing Younger Students to Shakespeare

* Shakespeare's Poems

* 10 Unique Shakespeare Adaptations

* The Shakespeare Prison Project

* Shakespeare for Teens

* A PBS Documentary - In Search of Shakespeare

You might also want to take a virtual tour of Globe Theater at http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/about-us/virtual-tour

Melissa Jenkins 's curator insight, November 16, 2013 8:31 AM

Nerd Alert!! :-)

Scott Nicholson's curator insight, April 10, 2014 2:51 AM

Q1) Even though this website is geared towards teaching Shakespeare, do you think it could be adapted to facilitate your own learning and understanding of him and his works? Why/why not and how?

 

Q2) Shakespeare is known to be notoriously difficult to learn and is abhorred by students the world over. As such, would you argue that Shakespeare is still relevant in an English curriculum context? This question extends to not only how important his works are but also how engaging or interesting you might find them.

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5 of the Best Online Shakespeare Resources

5 of the Best Online Shakespeare Resources | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

Check out five online resources on Shakespeare. The five websites are:

* 60 Second Shakespeare challenge from the BBC

* The Playwright Game from PBS

* Shakespearean Murder Mystery

* Shakespeare App

* Making a Scene -  blog with many ideas on how to bring Shakespeare to life in your classroom

Antonia Atria's curator insight, November 7, 2013 8:32 AM

Really useful information to understanding shakepeare!

Kelly Brenner Smith's curator insight, June 26, 2014 10:42 AM

Check out these resources for reading, understanding, and interpreting works by Shakespeare.

Sumayya Qudrat's curator insight, April 9, 2015 12:01 AM

different shakespeare units to use in a classroom

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200+ Free Video Lessons, Apps, and eBooks for K-12 - FreeTech4Teachers

200+ Free Video Lessons, Apps, and eBooks for K-12 - FreeTech4Teachers | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

If you are looking for free and open source materials one great place to check out periodically is Open Culture. Richard Bryne shared that "they launched a new collection of more than 200 free video lessons, apps, ebooks, and website for K-12students and teachers...which includes...items that were new to me...like this Shakespeare app and this Google Earth for science teacher resource." Links to a number of resources are embedded in his post.

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To Compute or Not to Compute—Wolfram|Alpha Analyzes Shakespeare’s Plays

To Compute or Not to Compute—Wolfram|Alpha Analyzes Shakespeare’s Plays | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
Computational insights into Shakespeare’s plays: number of acts, scenes, characters. Longest word, most frequent words, number of words and sentences. Information about a particular act or scene. Dialog timelines for each character.
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