If you’re anything like us, you are always looking for creative ways to refresh your teaching of Shakespeare and help students make connections between the Bard’s works and the world. We hope that this collection of resources helps you do just that.
Scroll or click down to find New York Times articles and Learning Network lesson plans that can be used or adapted for teaching Shakespeare’s plays in general, and particularly “Romeo and Juliet,” “Macbeth,” “Hamlet,” “Othello”and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
And by the way, our other Teaching Topics pages are here, and all of our English language arts lesson plans are here.
General Resources
Lesson Plans:
- A Tale Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying . . . Everything?: Findin...
- To Freeze or Not to Freeze: Frozen Tableaux Based on Shakespeare
- The Play’s The Thing: A Lesson for the Drama Classroom
- Making the Old New Again: Creating Modern Scenes in Not-So-Modern L...
- How ‘Few’ Were in the ‘Band of Brothers’? How History is Determined
- The Bard in the Big Apple: Setting Shakespeare in the Modern World
- The Plot Thickens?
- Curtain Up: Learning about Theater with The New York Times
- A Newspaper in Education program curriculum guide (PDF).
