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periwinkle Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=0109701&event=CFN Also, look online for Shakespeare study guides...there are many excellent free resources on the web. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle in AL Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 I love, love, love, Shakespeare Set Free by Folger's Library. You can find it at Amazon. The volume I have covers Midsummer's Night Dream, Romeo & Juliet, & Macbeth. This book will ONLY work for a group setting though. For me it has been worth the extra effort to teach a once/week class to 6 other students in order to use this. It's been the only resource I've needed to teach Romeo & Juliet and I was Shakespeare illiterate beforehand, and English was not my strong suit. This book has made all my 6 students truly understand and I hope enjoy Shakespeare. If anyone decides to use this, we read one act/week at home and then do about 3-4 lessons from Shakespeare Set Free during a 2hr group lesson at the end of the week. We do lessons that have covered what we've read that week. This of course won't work if you want something more independent. Michelle in AL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anne/Ankara Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Here is a nice online compilation of all his plays... http://shakespeare.mit.edu/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelli in TN Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 We liked Brightest Heaven of Invention by Peter Leithart. I am not using it with my current high schooler as she is a natural lover of Shakespeare and needs no help. But it was wonderful for my oldest kid, who thought Shakespeare was a waste of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
periwinkle Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Shakespeare needs to be seen and heard in performance. If you don't have that experience available, you can at least listen and read along in the text to some of his works here: http://wiredforbooks.org/shakespeare/ Alternatively, you could act out his plays in your family or group. My boys will be mortified to do this, but I just may try it on our next go-round;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle in MO Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 First of all, Brightest Heaven of Invention is a very good resource, although he seemed to have a different understanding of Henry V than I do (from the Kenneth Branagh film). However, I'm not a Shakespeare expert, so I can't really comment on whether or not his interpretation is correct. Here's a link for it on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Brightest-Heaven-Invention-Christian-Shakespeare/dp/1885767234/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207396920&sr=8-1 Also, though, I think one of the best resources for Shakespeare are the Oxford School Shakespeare editions. There are numerous helpful sections and notes, such as "Leading Characters in the Play," "Synopsis," "Shakespeare's Verse," "Source, Date, and Text," and lots of classwork and examination questions at the end of each book. Plus, the notes in the margin are excellent and make reading the plays very easy. (Forgive me if I'm telling you something you already know!) Anyway, to me, reading the play in these editions is probably the most helpful tool. We also have Richard III in the Cambridge editions, but we haven't read that yet, so I can't compare the two editions. I do believe, though, that the Oxford editions are recommended in TWTM. Hope this helps! Enjoy your Shakespeare studies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelli in TN Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Shakespeare needs to be seen and heard in performance. If you don't have that experience available, you can at least listen and read along in the text to some of his works here: http://wiredforbooks.org/shakespeare/ Alternatively, you could act out his plays in your family or group. My boys will be mortified to do this, but I just may try it on our next go-round;) I agree with this. Some of the newer adaptations can be great to draw in a reluctant Shakespeare student. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiver0f10 Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=0109701&event=CFN Also, look online for Shakespeare study guides...there are many excellent free resources on the web. This looks great! I was thinking of studying shakespeare with my 12th grader and I think this would be a wonderful resource for ME to help him! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhondaM. Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Look into Arkangel Shakespeare! My 6th grader and I loved listening to a fully dramatized audio of Shakespeare's Hamlet this past year. So it isn't just merely a reading of the play, it actually has the different character voices, background noises, making it all very interesting to listen to. It went along perfectly with the Folgers Library book version. We listened and read along. It was our first attempt at Shakespeare and it went great. You can see what they have available here: http://www.arkangelshakespeare.com/ We were able to get ours from the library. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle in MO Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 The Teaching Company has several series of lectures on Shakespeare, with Professor Peter Saccio of Dartmouth. This is the series that I've listened to (borrowed from a friend) and enjoyed: http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/coursedesclong2.aspx?cid=280&pc=Literature%20and%20English%20Language Also, even though this is a kid's biography, I loved Diane Stanley's Bard of Avon. Here's another (adult) biography of Shakespeare that looks good, but I have not personally read it: http://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-Biography-Peter-Ackroyd/dp/B000V5WMG4/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207411438&sr=8-1 I like reading biographies quite a bit; I really enjoy the insight into the person first before (or while) reading their works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RebeccaC Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Progeny Press Here is a link to their Hamlet guide which is on sale, http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=62198&event=CF and here is a list of their hs guides from their website, http://www.progenypress.com/Catalog/highschool.html HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Bill Bryson, who is an amazingly humorous writer of travel books, has also written some fun and informative books on the English language and one on Shakespeare himself. Here's the title -- Shakespeare: The World as Stage (from the Eminent Lives sereies) -- and a link to the Amazon page: http://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-World-Stage-Eminent-Lives/dp/0060740221 Regards, Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tami Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 than Formal Study, but this is one resource I plan on using. My idea is to meet with a few other families over the summer to do read the plays in parts, go to a Shakespeare performance, and watch a Shakespeare BBC video. My dd is a rising 6th grader. Previously we have used Lamb's and Nesbit's Shakespeare retellings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 The Teaching Company has several series of lectures on Shakespeare, with Professor Peter Saccio of Dartmouth. YES!!! Prof. Saccio is a great teacher - I got my library to buy his Shakespeare: Comedies, Tragedies and Histories (or whatever order the title is) and the lecture notes - you have to also get a copy of each play to read, and a film version to view to go along with Saccio's lectures. He is "at one" with the Bard! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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