Sso Many Ssources

Diverse Methods of Finding (at least four of these)

• a source found by way of a library research guide (Shakespeare, Literature, but consider subject or research guides from other institutions)
• A JSTOR ARTICLE ABOUT A HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER WHO TAUGHT MDS AND OTHER PLAYS FOR 20 YEARS. SHAKESPEARE TROUPE: AN ADVENTURE IN WORDS, FLUID TEXT, AND COMEDY (BY SUSAN C. BIONDO-HENCH) HTTP://WWW.JSTOR.ORG.ERL.LIB.BYU.EDU/STABLE/40503324 
• a source found by browsing physical library shelves (with help of the Library of Congress cataloging system)

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen. Copyright 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company. Pretty recent. Within the last 5-10 years.
• a source recommended by a person with whom you've discussed your project (the instructor, a scholar, an enthusiast).
• Google Scholar – my friend (he’s a BYU student, so, a scholar, right?) showed me how to use this to search for scholarly articles and I found a book called ShakespeareanMetadrama: The Argument of the Play in Titus Andronicus, Love's Labour'sLost, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Richard II by James L. Calderwood. 
• a source that comes by way of a social network you've identified as an audience or group of stakeholders. This could be a conference, a publication, teaching media, etc.
• This is from a Google community of English teachers who have been giving me advice on teaching Shakespeare. Here is part of our conversation. You can click here to see the rest of it.

Kim Carnahan6:17 AM

Leah, here's my take on the question about the sexual subtext. When teaching Shakespeare, it is utterly impossible to teach every detail and subtext. Shakespeare is too rich, and you could literally spend a vast amount of time on one play, disproportionate to the time allotted or suggested by your curriculum. It is necessary to choose the themes, motifs, etc. that you feel are most important to the play. In doing so, you will be excluding other equally valid themes, etc. The same can be said for subtext. Although it is true that sensitive readers will detect the sexual subtext, it is unlikely that ninth grade readers will do so unless you specifically point it out, which you won't do, of course. It is a comedy and a love story, after all! So if you want to teach it, go ahead! And if you decide to do so, I have a recommendation for you for an incredible, wonderful text that I leaned on very heavily for the teaching of MSND. Let me know.

Leah Anderson8:06 PMEdit

Oh tell me about his wonderful text?

Kim Carnahan8:27 PM

It's the Folger Shakespeare Library's Shakespeare Set Free. Here is the Amazon link:
I used it very successfully for several years. It is a performance-based unit that you can simply pick and choose from - you don't have to follow it exactly. Loads of great ideas and fun activities! The bonus is that the book is a "three-fer" - it also contains units for R&J and Macbeth!

Leah Anderson8:52 PMEdit

thank you!

(I would have taken a screen shot of that but I couldn't figure out how because it was too long and didn't fit on my screen??)

Diverse types of Sources (at least 3 of these)

• a scholarly article (from a peer-reviewed journal)
• TAKEN BY THE FAIRIES: FAIRY PRACTICES AND THE PRODUCTION OF POPULAR CULTURE IN A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (BY MARY ELLEN LAMB) HTTP://WWW.JSTOR.ORG.ERL.LIB.BYU.EDU/STABLE/2902152 
• an academic blog (one hosted by an educational institution, kept by an educator, or otherwise showing a disciplined focus on topics or texts) 

• http://theshakespeareblog.com/tag/a-midsummer-nights-dream/ The most recent MND post was March 4, 2013! Very recent.
• an eBook (see this list from the HBLL). (I looked at said list.)
• Teaching With Shakespeare: Critics in the Classroom edited by Bruce McIver, Ruth Stevenson http://books.google.com/books?id=1boA2hUZl8kC&printsec=frontcover&dq=ebook+about+teaching+shakespeare&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TgxVUeP9NePliALt0IGoCQ&ved=0CEUQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false Published in 1994 so it falls under the category of 10-50 yrs old