Hamlet No-Prep Unit Plan - a 5-Week Teaching Resource Bundle that includes ready-to-use, standards-aligned activities, lesson plans, quizzes, tests, essay prompts, project ideas, and more! Rated 4.9/5 Stars! You can be confident you're addressing the skills your students need to learn, while saving yourself hours not having to create materials yourself. This 139-page printable PDF will need modification for use in Google Classroom.
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Stephanie Turner said: This was my first year teaching Hamlet, and this resource was so helpful. I was able to use it with a hybrid distance/in-class format, and it worked very well.
Gabriella B. said: Love the play; love the resource. This takes care of everything, and allows me to focus on the content of the play.
This rigorous, fully-aligned Literature Guide for teaching Hamlet includes:
- Pre-Reading Activities List
- Historical and Cultural References: Hamlet Research (online research for mini research paper)
- Scene Guides for active reading and keeping track of important events and elements of Hamlet
- Comprehension and Analysis Questions
- Post-Reading and Extension Ideas
- Essay and Writing Prompts
- Informational Text: The Elements of Drama and Comprehension Questions
- Informational Text: Shakespeare’s Theater and Comprehension Questions
- Author Biography: William Shakespeare and Comprehension Check Questions
- Anticipation/Reaction Activity (to explore themes and provoke discussion)
- Appreciating Shakespeare’s Language
- The Sonnet Form and Iambic Pentameter Leson and Activity
- Allusions and Glossary of Terminology from the play
- Vocabulary Lists, with and without definitions
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Literary Analysis lessons and skills practice on:
- Author’s Choice
- Conflict
- Recognizing Thematic Clues
- Mood and Tone
- Connotation and Vocabulary
- Style
- Character Motivations
- Characterization - Unfolding a Tragedy
- Plot Development
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Writing lessons and practice on:
- Making Claims in Argument
- Discerning Between Supported and Unsupported Claims
- Supporting Claims in Argument
- Explanatory Writing- Instructions for Revenge
- Response to Literature
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Language and Vocabulary activities and lessons on:
- Nuances
- Parallel Structure
- Context Clues
- Figurative Language
- Vocabulary in Context
- Analogies
- Listening and Speaking Focus: Hamlet’s Tragic Flaw
- Quiz on each Act
- Two Final Exam Options - One entirely Multiple Choice
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Teacher's Guide with
- Summary of the Play
- Suggested Related Reading
- Notes for the Teacher
- Sample Agenda
- Answer Key
- Common Core Alignment Documentation
April K. said: Excellent. I used this when teaching Hamlet for the second time and it was much more helpful than any other resource that I used when I taught the play for the first time. High-quality quizzes.