Daily Lessons for Teaching Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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, p. 1-20 The student will participate in a discussion that includes drama, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and the play within a play approach of Stoppard. The student will begin an analysis of the characters of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

1) 1. The teacher will be prepared to lead a discussion of the drama including the element of comic relief. The teacher will give a synopsis of Shakespeare's...
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