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Why Do We Still Study Shakespeare?
Kind of Activity:
Classwide Discussion
Objective:
Students will investigate their own vocabulary and literary archive to investigate why Shakespeare's work is still taught.
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.1; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.3; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.4
Structure:
Many students, after many long nights trying to understand Shakespeare's Elizabethan English, may be wondering why anyone even bothers reading Shakespeare anymore. Ask students why they think he is still so prevalent, then ask what they know about Shakespeare already. What plays have they read? What movies based on Shakespeare's plays...
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