Description
One entire month of planning done for you – I dare you to enjoy Shakespeare.
I love teaching Shakespeare’s plays, and I want you to love it too. I’ve been teaching and improving this unit for over ten years. All of the thinking has been done for you. I love annotating my plays and books. I’ve taken all of the annotations made in my play over the years and incorporated them into a guide to help you guide students and help students understand. Many people (including teachers) get overwhelmed with Shakespeare because of the language. This unit has been created with the student in mind. The activities are thorough, but simple enough for students to understand and enjoy the play.
This unit has everything a teacher needs to teach Hamlet. Just photocopy and teach. Seriously it’s that easy. There’s no longer a need for hours of research and piecing together bits of information and activity sheets you don’t know what to do with.
This is a complete unit, from scene summaries, important notes and annotations notes to help students understand what they are reading. I have also included an introduction to the play, a student guide, a teacher guide with detailed lesson plans, quizzes, a creative assignment, tests (all with answers and evaluation grids), and a comprehensive answer key. Everything has its place and teaches a specific skill.
The student activities included in this unit are now in Google Docs and Google Drawing. Make distance learning a breeze with this new addition.
Please note that MOST evaluations are still available in Word format for easy modifications.
The unit is appropriate for students in grades 10, 11 and 12.
The unit includes :
NOTE: All activities, teacher notes, and lessons are available in PDF format only.
Student activities are also available in Google Docs format and are modifiable in the docs themselves.
❒An attractive, interactive, multimedia PowerPoint presentation introducing the play (17 slides)
❒A Student Study Guide (with activities, Act, and scene questions…) and various activities (16 pages)
❒Study Questions are available in two different formats – Print saver (with all questions on one page – students write their answers on a separate sheet) and Long Form (Where space is provided for students to write their answers directly on the question sheet)
❒A Teacher Guide (with detailed, comprehensive lessons, unit plan, and additional notes to guide students.) -9 pages and 17 complete lessons. The teacher Guide includes journal and discussion prompts and a list of speaking roles if reading out loud in class)to help with time management and organization.
❒18 pages of comprehensive scene summaries and important notes for each scene (annotations for each scene) ***THIS IS A TEACHER FAVORITE!
❒A creative Hamlet Guess Who? Game to help students understand the characters. (What’s fun about this game is that it can be played from the beginning of the play right to the end, and students’ answers will change depending on the act they are reading.) LOTS OF FUN!
❒A comprehensive answer key for all questions and activities. (24 pages)
❒Comprehension quiz on Acts 1 and 2 in Word format for easy modifications (with evaluation grid) and answer key.
❒Option 1: Mid-play evaluation – The Parody – creative writing and analysis (in Word format for easy modifications – with evaluation grid)
❒Option 2: Mid-play evaluation – The Parody – a creative group presentation (Only available in PDF format)
❒Summary guide (highlighting the significant events from each scene with important analytical information) – Throughout my years of teaching this play, I have amounted excellent notes and annotations, listing the most significant actions throughout each scene. I have retyped these annotations to help you teach the play, so your students will understand it (and so will you). (18 pages)
❒The culminating evaluation includes three different versions of the final unit test with evaluation grid and answer key (in Word for easy modifications)
Includes a total of 115 pages.
Check out this sketchnote resource to further student comprehension:
Hamlet Scene Summary Visual Notebook
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It’s teaching made easy!
Total Pages
110 pages
Answer Key
Included with rubric
Teaching Duration
1 month