Lesson Plan for: Dividing kingdoms, people, and minds: King Lear, Act 1
"'I've always been an actor,’ said Mr. Taylor, who is 35 and serving five years for cocaine possession and battery. ‘We always have on our...
Shakespeare’s Prince: A Lesson Plan for Contemplating Shape-Shifting & Authenticity in Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part 1
“It is necessary for a prince, who wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good and to use this knowledge and not...
Fortune’s Fool: A Lesson Plan for Romeo & Juliet
Romeo+Juliet+Fortune “I am fortune’s fool!” Romeo cries after killing Tybalt (68). This lesson plan asks students to perform a close reading of that scene, and...
Where Two Raging Fires Meet: Using Online Dating to Teach Taming of the Shrew
“And where two raging fires meet together they do consume the thing that feeds their fury. Though little fire grows great with little wind, yet...
Graduate School: A Semantic Field
“Enlightenment is a man’s exit from his self-incurred minority. … If I have a book which provides meaning for me, a pastor who has conscience...