Playwright George Bernard Shaw is born in Dublin, Ireland

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  Vengeful Verbs in Shakespeare’s Hamlet

  Expose middle school students to a first taste of Shakespeare from the angle of the ghost story and launch into the subject of verbs.  In this lesson, they learn how Shakespeare uses verbs to move the action of the play.  Students then distinguish generic verbs from vivid verbs by working with selected lines in Hamlet’s Ghost scene. Finally they test their knowledge of verbs through a crossword interactive puzzle.

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