teaching-everydayisdifferent:It is that time of year again for a blind date with Shakespeare!
teaching-everydayisdifferent:It is that time of year again for a blind date with Shakespeare! In class we discuss Twelfth Night and its adaptions, and on their own my students are working on analyzing their own set of adaptions. This year I wrapped the books and only put the plays they were adapted from on the spines. The students chose based solely on this information. After break I am going to let them know the extent of their project, but the nitty gritty is that they are going to read a detailed summary of the play and write on paper on how they feel the novel did adapting the story for a modern audience.Here is the list of novels I use:Fool – Christopher Moore (King Lear)Wondrous Strange – Lesley Livingston (A Midsummer Night’s dream)Something Rotten – Alan Gratz (Hamlet)Something Wicked – Alan Gratz (Macbeth)Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty – Gehrman (MuchAdo About Nothing)The Third Witch – Rebecca Reisert (Macbeth)Ophelia – Lisa Klien (Hamlet)Lady Macbeth – Susan Fraser King (Macbeth)Gertrude and Claudius – John Updike (Hamlet)The Story of Edgar Sawtelle – David Wroblewski (Hamlet)Saving Juliet – Suzanne Selfors (Romeo and Juliet)A Thousand Acres – Jane Smiley (King Lear)Falling for Hamlet – Michelle ray (Hamlet)Exposure – Mal Peet (Othello)Enter three Witches – Caroline Cooley (Macbeth)Can anyone think of other Shakespeare adaptions out there that are appropriate for the high school crowd? -- source link
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