Daily Lessons for Teaching Hamlet

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: Act 1, Scene 1 The objective of this lesson is to present students with some basics about Shakespeare and Shakespeare's plays.

1) 1) Teacher Lecture: Explain to students that Shakespeare's plays are written in five acts. Explain to students that most plays today are performed in two or three acts. If students have ever seen a play with an intermission, that intermission generally comes between the acts....
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