Teaching Shakespeare and His Sisters
Title | Teaching Shakespeare and His Sisters PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Whipday |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 166 |
Release | 2023-06-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108986390 |
What are we teaching, when we teach Shakespeare? Today, the Shakespeare classroom is often also a rehearsal room; we teach Shakespeare plays as both literary texts and cues for theatrical performance. This Element explores the possibilities of an 'embodied' pedagogical approach as a tool to inform literary analysis. The first section offers an overview of the embodied approach, and how it might be applied to Shakespeare plays in a playhouse context. The second applies this framework to the play-making, performance, and story-telling of early modern women – 'Shakespeare's sisters' – as a form of feminist historical recovery. The third suggests how an embodied pedagogy might be possible digitally, in relation to online teaching. In so doing, this Element makes the case for an embodied pedagogy for teaching Shakespeare.
How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare
Title | How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Ludwig |
Publisher | Crown |
Total Pages | 369 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0307951499 |
Outlines an engaging way to instill an understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's classic works in children, outlining a family-friendly method that incorporates the history of Shakespearean theater and society.
Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students
Title | Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students PDF eBook |
Author | Leung Che Miriam Lau |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 149 |
Release | 2016-09-23 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9811005826 |
This is a teacher’s resource book tailor-made for EFL teachers who want to bring Shakespeare into their classes. It includes forty innovative lesson plans with ready-to-use worksheets, hands-on games and student-oriented activities that help EFL learners achieve higher levels of English proficiency and cultural sensitivity. By introducing the plots, characters, and language arts employed in Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merchant of Venice, the book conveys English grammatical rules and aspects like a walk in the garden; complicated rhetorical features such as stress, meter, rhyme, homonymy, irony, simile, metaphor, euphemism, parallelism, unusual word order, etc. are taught through meaning-driven games and exercises. Besides developing EFL learners’ English language skills, it also includes practical extended tasks that enhance higher-order thinking skills, encouraging reflection on the central themes in Shakespeare’s plays.
Teaching English as a Second Language with Shakespeare
Title | Teaching English as a Second Language with Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Fabio Ciambella |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 159 |
Release | 2024-06-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 100933199X |
Teaching pragmatics, that is, language in use, is one of the most difficult and consequently neglected tasks in many English as a Second Language classrooms. This Element aims to address a gap in the scholarly debate about Shakespeare and pedagogy, combining pragmatic considerations about how to approach Shakespeare's language today in ESL classes, and practical applications in the shape of ready-made lesson plans for both university and secondary school students. Its originality consists in both its structure and the methodology adopted. Three main sections cover different aspects of pragmatics: performative speech acts, discourse markers, and (im)politeness strategies. Each section is introduced by an overview of the topic and state of the art, then details are provided about how to approach Shakespeare's plays through a given pragmatic method. Finally, an example of an interactive, ready-made lesson plan is provided.
Teaching with Interactive Shakespeare Editions
Title | Teaching with Interactive Shakespeare Editions PDF eBook |
Author | Laura B. Turchi |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 168 |
Release | 2023-10-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 100902177X |
This Element examines the opportunities that interactive digital editions give teachers, software developers and scholars to connect Shakespeare's works to twenty-first century students by presenting three case studies of interactive digital editions of Shakespeare incorporated into classroom teaching.
Disavowing Authority in the Shakespeare Classroom
Title | Disavowing Authority in the Shakespeare Classroom PDF eBook |
Author | Huw Griffiths |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 119 |
Release | 2024-04-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108956726 |
Based on real experiences of teaching Shakespeare in diverse classrooms and outreach programmes, this Element questions the role of authority in Shakespeare teaching. It connects an understanding of how Shakespearean texts function with critical thinking about teaching, especially derived from the work of Jaques Rancière. Certain elements of the Shakespearean text - notably how it was intended to teach its first readers, the actors, and its uses of dramatic irony - are revealed as already containing possibilities for more decentred forms of knowledge production.
Teaching Shakespeare To Develop Children'S Writing: A Practical Guide: 9-12 Years
Title | Teaching Shakespeare To Develop Children'S Writing: A Practical Guide: 9-12 Years PDF eBook |
Author | Sedgwick, Fred |
Publisher | McGraw-Hill Education (UK) |
Total Pages | 282 |
Release | 2014-10-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0335263224 |
This exciting and accessible book offers techniques for introducing some of Shakespeare’s plays to children between the ages of nine and twelve.