Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults

by Mary Ellen Dakin

Dakin, Mary Ellen

Genres: Teaching, Shakespeare, Education

233 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 2009

Reviews

[Kristin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome book with great ideas for Shakespeare units in today's classrooms.

[Gretchen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely amazing! If you teach Shakespeare or any kind of English Literature with complex language, buy this book. Dakin's experiences are true to the classroom, and she provides straightforward, practical, tips to help students enter a level of understanding beyond just the plot. I came away from this book with too. Any ideas to try in one year!

[BookChampions · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jammed-packed with good ideas--just not enough time to try them all out. :)

[Ed Williams · Rating 4 out of 5]

This text had some really wonderful examples and ideas for bringing Shakespeare to life in the secondary classroom. The book provided some great ideas and helped reinforce some ideas that I had been using already in my classroom with drama.

[Kirti Vyas · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent resource for teaching Shakespeare in high school, especially Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest, or A Midsummer's Night Dream. More ideas than one can use in a unit.

[Molly Booth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Full of the best, most brilliant, most generous kind of teacher wisdom.