20 Ideas for Teaching Hamlet Study Guides 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.
Reading Online Hamlet:Full Text Online 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.
Spark Notes: Hamlet 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. Lesson Plans Teaching Hamlet in the High School, Illinois State University. 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.
Teaching Hamlet in Web 2.0 posted by Ann S. Michaelsen 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: Resources from Folger Education. 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.
Hamlet Lesson Plan Materials 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.
Lesson Plans for teaching online Shakespeare in Education 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. Lesson Plan for teaching students with varying abilities Teacher Version 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.
Teaching Resources Hamlet: prepared by Patti C. McWhorter, Cedar Shoals High School, Athens, Georgia, USA 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.
Watching Hamlet Online Hamlet Videos online 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.
Assessments for Hamlet Hamlet Game Board 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.
Helpful links Teachertube
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.
Teacher guides for activities, reading activities for students before the begin reading and graphic organizers.
Teachers guide and Student Activites 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.
20 Ideas for Teaching Hamlet
Study Guides
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.
Reading Online
Hamlet: Full Text Online
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.
Spark Notes: Hamlet
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.
Lesson Plans
Teaching Hamlet in the High School, Illinois State University.
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.
Renaissance Humanism in Hamlet and The Birth of Venus by: Junius Wright of Charleston, South Carolina
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/renaissance-humanism-hamlet-birth-297.html
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
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/analyzing-character-hamlet-through-956.html
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
Teaching Hamlet in Web 2.0 posted by Ann S. Michaelsen
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: Resources from Folger Education.
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.
Hamlet Lesson Plan Materials
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.
Lesson Plans for teaching online
Shakespeare in Education
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.
Lesson Plan for teaching students with varying abilities
Teacher Version
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.
Teaching Resources
Hamlet: prepared by Patti C. McWhorter, Cedar Shoals High School, Athens, Georgia, USA
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.
Watching Hamlet Online
Hamlet Videos online
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.
Assessments for Hamlet
Hamlet Game Board
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.
Helpful links
Teachertube
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.
Teacher guides for activities, reading activities for students before the begin reading and graphic organizers.
William Shakespeare's Hamlet
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.
Pre-Reading for 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.
Teachers guide and Student Activites
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.
Group Activities for Teaching Hamlet
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.
Graphic Organizer for Hamlet scene 2
www2.informns.k12.mn.us/.../676953Hamlet_Act_2_Graphic_Organizer.doc