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Shakespeare's Macbeth: Fear and the Motives of Evil

Created October 12, 2010

Students search an online version of Shakespeare's Macbeth for clues to the motives behind Macbeth's precipitous descent into evil.

Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet

Created October 8, 2010

While teaching some of the formal terms used to describe sonnets will be one of the aims of this lesson, our starting point and central focus throughout will be learning to appreciate the sounds of poetry.

Childhood Through the Looking-Glass

Created October 7, 2010

Students explore Lewis Carroll’s imaginative visions of childhood, captured in his photography and in the words and art of his Alice in Wonderland stories. Students also compare and contrast Carroll’s Victorian view of childhood to that of Romantic poet and printer William Blake.

Childhood Through the Looking-Glass: Activity 2

Created October 7, 2010

A Trip to Wonderland: Sizing Up Alice

Created September 30, 2010

Practical Criticism

Created September 24, 2010

Conduct an experiment in literary interpretation with little-known specimens of Victorian verse.

A Trip to Wonderland: The Nursery 'Alice'

Created September 24, 2010

This lesson explores elements of wonder, distortion, fantasy, and whimsy in Lewis Carroll's adaptation for younger readers of his beloved classic, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: 'You Kiss by the Book'

Created September 23, 2010

Learn how Shakespeare used the sonnet tradition to enhance his stagecraft by performing a scene from this timeless tragedy.

Launchpad: 'You Kiss by the Book'

Created September 23, 2010

Beatrix Potter's Naughty Animal Tales

Created September 10, 2010

Through studying Beatrix Potter's stories and illustrations from the early 1900s and learning about her childhood in Victorian England, students can compare/contrast these with their own world to understand why Potter wrote such simple stories and why she wrote about animals rather than people.

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