study and teaching

Contains thirty-one essays on teaching the plays of William Shakespeare, discussing the benefits of paying attention to the theatrical details, comparing theater in the Elizabethan era to the early twenty-first century, describing workshop exercises and techniques, and more.

Contains primary source materials, collected to complement the reading of Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl," that provide information about what was going on in the world outside the secret annex where Anne and her family hid from the Nazis for two years.

Presents Shakespeare teaching aids and lesson ideas, discussing various theoretical approaches and covering such aspects as character, story, themes, dramatic effect, and language. Also discusses assessment.

Suggestins and activities for teaching History of US in the classroom.

A collection of activities including reproducible pages, teacher notes, synopses, discussion questions, and comprehension assessments, designed to help students understand five works by author Katherine Paterson.

Adapts the epic poems of Homer and Virgil into three plays for middle-school students, each with more than twenty speaking parts, and includes background information, activities, and short assessments.

Students complete open-ended math activities and invesigations and create blocks that they cement together into a wall of mathematical knowledge that they are building.

Presents plot summaries, character lists, and extracts of major critical essays on nineteenth-century Irish writer Oscar Wilde's plays "The Importance of Being Earnest," "An Ideal Husband," "Lady Windemere's Fan," and "A Woman of No Importance," and also includes biographical information on the playwright.