Hamlet Lesson Plan

Shakespeare in Your Own Words

Kind of Activity:

Collaborative Writing

Objective:

Students will demonstrate an understanding of complex vocabulary, and will develop an appreciation for sophisticated rhetorical devices.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.3, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.4, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.5

Structure:

The purpose of this activity is to have students demonstrate that they can recount what they have read in Hamlet in modern, "un-Shakespearean" language. As a comic way of introducing this activity, show students the parody of Hamlet's graveyard scene from the cartoon Animaniacs...