Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

The Many Plots of A Midsummer Night's Dream: Shakespeare Uncovered

Subject Area

English Language Arts

Grade(s)

9, 12

Overview

This media gallery from Shakespeare Uncovered will help your students understand the many plots in A Midsummer Night's Dream, how they move the play forward, and how they are intertwined. Videos, text-dependent questions, and graphic organizers will highlight what students need to know about the play's Athenian court as well as its lovers, fairies, and rude "mechanicals."

    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 9

    ELA21.9.1

    Read, analyze, and evaluate complex literary and informational texts written from various cultural perspectives, with an emphasis on works originating outside the United States and the British Isles through 1599.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.9.1

    Vocabulary

    • Analyze
    • Evaluate
    • Complex literary text
    • Complex informational texts
    • Cultural perspectives

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Necessary skills to read, analyze, and evaluate complex literary and informational texts.
    • Historical texts that originated outside of the United States can provide valuable information about the past.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Read complex texts.
    • Analyze elements within complex texts.
    • Evaluate text based on specific criteria provided by teacher.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Historical texts written from various cultural perspectives, that originated from a location other than the United States, can provide them with valuable information about past events, current events, and potential future events.
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 12

    ELA21.12.1

    Read, analyze, and evaluate complex literary and historical texts written from particular points of view or cultural experiences, with an emphasis on works of literature from the British Isles.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.12.1

    Vocabulary

    • Analyze
    • Evaluate
    • Complex literary text
    • Complex historical texts
    • Points of view
    • Cultural perspectives
    • British Isles literature

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Necessary skills to read, analyze, and evaluate complex literary and historical texts.
    • Strategies to identify and describe various points of view and cultural perspectives.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Read complex texts.
    • Analyze elements within complex texts.
    • Evaluate text based on specific criteria provided by the teacher.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Texts written from various cultural perspectives and viewpoints can provide them with valuable information about the thoughts, opinions, and experiences of others in the present and in the past.
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    CR Resource Type

    Audio/Video

    Resource Provider

    PBS
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    Custom
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