Hamlet

**20 Ideas for Teaching //Hamlet//**  **Hamlet Study Guide**  www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/pdf/**hamlet**.pd This is a study guide for Hamlet. It is a PDF file created by Marti Maraden Artistic Director, English Theatre.
 * Study Guides**

http://www.tk421.net/hamlet/hamlet.html This is a site that provides students with the entire text online. Throughout the site there are links for discussion movies, translations and also summaries.
 * Reading Online**
 * Hamlet:** **Full Text Online**

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/hamlet Although we are not encouraged to use Spark notes, I find it very helpful for translations and review of the Characters. In many situations spark notes has helped me to understand the text. http://www.pleasval.k12.ia.us/highschool/teachers/larewe/NEH%20Hamlet/index.htm Throughout this site there are various resources to teach Hamlet in the classroom. Activities focus on textual variants within Shakespeare's works.
 * Spark Notes: Hamlet**
 * Lesson Plans**
 * Teaching Hamlet in the High School, Illinois State University.**

** Renaissance Humanism in //Hamlet// and ** **// The Birth of Venus by : // Junius Wright of Charleston, South Carolina**  [] This lesson allows students to use visual and literary tools to identify, analyze, and explain how //The Birth of Venus// and examples from //Hamlet// portray the philosophy of Renaissance Humanism. **Analyzing Character in //Hamlet// through Epitaphs by: **  ​Nancy Berile of Revere Massachusetts  []  This lesson has students choose a character and create a posterboard relfecting on their characters. This lesson allows them to analyze the characters through an Epitaph

http://annmic.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/teaching-hamlet/ This site is great, Michaelsen provides links to teaching methods, other web-places to visit, animated tales and provides tasks to be completed.
 * Teaching Hamlet in Web 2.0** posted by Ann S. Michaelsen

http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=2782 Folger provides a variety of lesson plans, teaching tools, and audio and video resources. He lists a "Language" section that encourages teachers to pay attention to unfamiliar words, wordplay and unfamiliar word order.
 * Teaching Hamlet: Resources from Folger Education.**

http://www.enotes.com/hamlet-lesson Enotes provides a web page with a variety of recommended lesson plans and related documents and lessons including a grammar guide to Hamlet.
 * Hamlet Lesson Plan Materials**

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/educational.htm This page contains links to sites designed to teach Shakespeare over the internet and in the classroom. It provides for a great way to stay up to date in education over the internet and is conveniently organized by discipline.  http://www.teachervision.fen.com/curriculum-planning/teaching-methods/3544.html This site includes activities for students of varying abilities, background on the play, an act-by-act synopsis, suggestions for organizing instruction, a list of journal writing topics, discussion questions, and activities for use before, during and after reading the play.
 * Lesson Plans for teaching online**
 * Shakespeare in Education**
 * Lesson Plan for teaching students with varying abilities**
 * Teacher Version**

http://www.rsc.org.uk/hamlet/teachers/resources.html McWhorter offers this site to teachers giving them further resources, editions and websites that can be helpful to teaching and understanding Hamlet in the classroomm.
 * Teaching Resources**
 * Hamlet:** prepared by Patti C. McWhorter, Cedar Shoals //High// School, Athens, Georgia, USA

http://www.miracosta.edu/home/gfloren/hamlet.htm This site provides students with the videos of Scenes in Hamlet. Many students enjoy reading along while watching the movie. The site also provides links to general information about Hamlet, Hamlet film versions, links to give tips to Shakespeare's language and also a section with goofy clips of Hamlet.
 * Watching Hamlet Online**
 * Hamlet Videos online**

http://www.awaytoteach.net/?q=node/6177&quicktabs_2530=0 Instead of giving her students a test, Kim Bell has her students Create Hamlet game boards. If I were to use this I would use it as a review before a quiz or exam. Students tend to remember more when its interesting and fun. As a teacher I could also create my own board game and use it as a studying tool.
 * Assessments for Hamlet**
 * Hamlet Game Board**

www.teachertube.com This site is provided by teachers all over the world. It is very similar to youtube, except it offers ideas in all subjects posted by other teachers.
 * Helpful links**
 * Teachertube**


 * Teacher guides for activities, reading activities for students before the begin reading and graphic organizers.**

http://www.awaytoteach.net/?q=node/6177&quicktabs_2530=0 This site provides introductory information for the students to complete before starting the Hamlet unit.
 * William Shakespeare's Hamlet**

http://www.angelfire.com/ok/freshenglish/fourcorners.html This is a pre reading activity for student to do in class before they begin to read Hamlet.
 * Pre-Reading for Hamlet**

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/Hamlet/hamletwebguide.html This site helps students to gain research skills, specific to the World Wide Web, encourages higher-level thinking skills and aids the students in experience in writing compositions consistent with the ability to discuss the actions and attitudes of dramatic characters.
 * Teachers guide and Student Activites**

http://us.penguingroup.com/static/pdf/teachersguides/hamlet.pdf Students are divided into groups, each group assigned a different act and instructed to locate as many references to decay and corruption as possible.
 * Group Activities for Teaching Hamlet**

www2.informns.k12.mn.us/.../676953**Hamlet**_Act_2_Graphic_**Organizer**.doc
 * Graphic Organizer for Hamlet scene 2**