![9th Grade Lesson Plan: Shakespeare(Romeo and Juliet) Skyler Smyres and Tamara Crow](https://img.oercommons.org/160x134/oercommons/media/courseware/lesson/screenshot/courseware-lesson-20048.png)
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Author:
- Skyler Smyres
- Tamara Crow
- Date Added:
- 01/15/2018
The students will be reading The Diary of Anne Frank and using videos and tours to learn more about why she was hiding and what eventually happened to her.
In Module 10.1, students engage with literature and nonfiction texts and explore how complex characters develop through their interactions with each other, and how these interactions develop central ideas such as parental and communal expectations, self-perception and performance, and competition and learning from mistakes.
Find the rest of the EngageNY ELA resources at https://archive.org/details/engageny-ela-archive .
In this module, students read, discuss, and analyze nonfiction and dramatic texts, focusing on how the authors convey and develop central ideas concerning imbalance, disorder, tragedy, mortality, and fate.
Find the rest of the EngageNY ELA resources at https://archive.org/details/engageny-ela-archive .
A short quiz on CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.9-10.9, featuring a passage from the Old English poem, Beowulf (translated by T. A. Shippey), and a passage from Genesis in the King James Bible. The passages have a Dale-Chall index of 5-6 and a Kincaid level of 5.9.
This introduces William Shakespeare's language by providing students with an opportunity to examine phrases and sayings first written in his plays. Students will read an informational text as well as spend time researching various Shakespearean phrases and their presence in his plays to determine his continuing relevance in modern language today. Students will be able to apply Shakespearean phrases to modern situations in order to determine his relevance.