OpenCurriculum for Shakespeare is a tool that helps you quickly create lessons and units on Shakespeare which engage students, using our library of high-quality activities, paired texts, ideas, and videos.
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Expert teachers and publishers have written hundreds of high-quality lessons and units full of rigorous and engaging activities, formative and summative assessments, discussion questions, and student handouts for various acts of the plays. Get inspired or use as is.
Paired texts allow students to explore the central themes from Shakespeare's plays in different stories or settings, while overcoming their struggle with difficult Shakespearean language. Find examples of such texts in our digital library of resources.
This site is full of videos from great film and theater productions of Shakespeare plays that you can show your students to really bring key characters and Elizabethan times to life in the modern day.
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