Also from the Shakespeare Folger Library, this page is an educator's dream-come-true. These teacher's resources are organized by lesson plans, primary resources, study guides, audio and visual, teacher's lounge, and other sources.
The site shows five featured Shakespeare lesson plans every month, but also has allows searching through archived lesson plans.
The primary resources part of the site is really cool. The Folger Institute is home to many early modern books. The site shows excerpts of these books along with teaching ideas. Like with the lesson plans, the site features a few early modern books or manuscripts on a variety of topics, but also archives all books to allow for searching. For an interesting experience, browse this book, Coryats Crudities, written by Thomas Coryats and published in 1611. The book is about Coryats observations of Jews as he travels through Western Europe and his analysis of Jewish stereotypes, very fitting for this The Merchant of Venice blog.
The site has study guides for many of Shakespeare's plays, but not The Merchant of Venice. "Each study guide contains a plot summary, a list of characters, interactive activities, and discussion questions."
Under the audio and visual category, the site contains a podcast about Macbeth's themes, characters, and conflicts. In addition, another video shows students how to remix Shakespeare scenes to create original audio dramas. Any teacher should check out this engaging activity.
The site also has a teacher's lounge, a forum where teachers can ask questions, give answers, or just share.
The site also includes many other links in the other resources category.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Folger Shakespeare Library
This page is from the Folger Shakespeare Library website. This particular page provides a great short synopsis of the Merchant of Venice. Even better, the page contains graphics of paintings depicting scenes from this play. The watercolor of the trial scene is amazing. :)
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