A+Midsummer+Night's+Dream

Marissa Covelli 1.) [|Study Guide]  This study guide is very in depth and can help students organize the text. There are multiple stories going on in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and this guide provides resourceful diagrams to for students to fill out to them understand the play.  2. [|Spark Notes]   Although Spark Notes are commonly looked down upon by teachers, I think they are a great resource. These notes have helped me to understand texts when the language used was beyond my level of comprehension. I think using Spark Notes as a tool to reading will lead to comprehension success.   3. Students can buy the [|CliffsNotes] for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It would also be good if the teacher had a copy of this to help and encourage students while reading. 4. This site gives a whole bunch of different books teachers can buy that will be fit for their students to read. Some of the different sections include elementary, middle, secondary, college, and assessment. [|The site] offers different selections for teachers to buy for their students to be able to read Shakespeare. 5. This is a text I found off of the NCTE website. [|The book] helps students and teachers understand the language of Shakespeare. 6. [|A Midsummer Night’s Dream] can be found in full text at this site. This will be useful to those forgetful students who forget to bring home their book. 7. [|No Fear Shakespeare] is a sight that puts the Shakespeare’s words into layman's terms for students. 8. [|A Midsummer Night's dream notes.doc] These are my notes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream from taking Don John Dugas' Shakespeare class at Kent State University. 9. [|This] is the full text of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but it defines words and some phrases that would be hard for students to understand. How cool! 10. All Kent State students have access to this [|movie]. It is very long, but can help students who are struggling with the reading. 11. is a dance performance about A Midsummer Night’s Dream which promises to keep all students on the edge of their seats. There is a worksheet that is linked on the site that goes with the performance. 12. I found this [|site] that contains a book which is for grades 7-9. There are 36 different activities teacher can do with their students on A Midsummer' Night’s Dream. There are also notes to the teacher. 13. This [|website] contains lesson plans, study guides, tests, and activities for this novel. BUT, you have to purchase them. 14. One of my own ideas would be to have students act out important or hard to understand scenes from the play. This could be a group project, which allows students to present the play in any fashion they chose. Students could use their own language and create their own themes (such as gangster or old fashion). Students would present their section of the play in front of the class. 15. This site offers multiple different in-depth lesson plans that can be clicked on for many different Shakespeare plays. I strongly recommend checking [|this] out! There are over 16 different ideas for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 16. I found a great site: []. It gives worksheets and ideas for lessons. Everyone can find something useful on here. [|This] is one example of what I found for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. There are plenty more options on this site for my book. [|Here] are some more. There are also graphic organizers and other supplemental materials at this site. 17. I found another site that has many different ideas for teaching Shakespeare plays. This is the site: []. One of the [|activities] includes having students act out different parts of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in order to understand the love relationships. 18. This [|site] offers information about activities teachers can use for A Midsummer's Night Dream. It includes charts, research assignments, and activities. 19. Here is a lesson plan from readwritethink.org about building a resume for a character in a Shakespeare's play. [|This] will get students to really take a deep look into a character. 20. [|This lesson plan] gives activities for students to do while reading A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The lesson plan engages students into finding out solutions to make happy endings for the characters. It has characters identify the conflicts in the text and find out solutions to solve them.
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