Working Thesis Statement: How to Teach A Midsummer Night’s
Dream to Teenagers
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- My mom: She graduated from BYU in English and she was my homeschool teacher for several years – she is always my first person to bounce ideas off, and she gives great feedback, and she is a good editor.
- My Aunt Suzanne: She was my high school AP English teacher – also a great resource for teaching methods
- My Uncle Jack: Was an editor at Deseret Book for like a hundred years. He knows tons about literature and writing.
- My roommates. J
New Media
- BBC’s version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I will watch it with my teacher eyes and see what students could get out of it and how it could be used in lesson planning. http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/shakespeare/midsummernightsdream/
- A Shakespeare teaching blog or two!
- http://shakesmith.blogspot.com/search?q=midsummer
- http://theshakespeareblog.com/tag/a-midsummer-nights-dream
A great Youtube version of MND. This is an example of activities I will try to do with my class…make fun movies! http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=_l0IdGni1Dg&feature=endscreen
Social Networks
- A wonderful website for teachers of Shakespeare, with lesson plans and ideas of how to teach any and all Shakespeare material – I could use this in comparison of R&J to MND or just to explore ways of teaching the themes that I’ve been trying to squeeze out of this play. What a great resource! http://www.folger.edu/eduPrimSrcArch.cfm?CFID=10450826&CFTOKEN=444ef60a8865b763-78F62897-3473-0E4E-CC6E2ECA695CC169#1
Traditional Sources
hahaha your note gave me so much joy.
ReplyDeleteWhat you list as a working thesis statement is a topic, not a claim. Please post a true thesis statement as soon as possible. See this if you need help: http://burton.byu.edu/Composition/BetterThesisStatements.htm
ReplyDeleteCome on, isn't a "working thesis statement" a thesis statement you're still working on? (Just kidding.) (Sort of.)
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