Joseph P. Haughey

Teaching Hamlet in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Teaching Hamlet in the Twenty-First Century Classroom is for both the novice and veteran teacher and offers fresh takes on teaching Shakespeare's iconic Hamlet. Its lessons push students to engage deeply and creatively. Rooted in text and performance, each chapter provides ready-to-use learning objectives, reading guides, notes on language, critical backgrounds, discussion questions, film-based strategies, and project-based culminating activities that embrace students' role in meaning-making. It is the book for teachers who want to get their students to love Hamlet.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475871821
• Artikelnr.: 74939341

Autorenporträt

Joseph P. Haughey is an associate professor of English education and assistant director of teacher education at Northwest Missouri State University, where he teaches classes in composition, literature, and education. His other research interests beyond Hamlet include incorporating graphic novels in antiracist pedagogies, the use of graphic adaptations in teaching canonical texts, the historical analysis of Shakespeare's evolving role in American education, and general issues more broadly in teacher preparation, critical literacy, antiracism in schools, and rural education. Before joining the faculty at Northwest, Dr. Haughey taught middle and high school ELA in California and Alaska.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: "Begin at This Line"
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: "I Could a Tale Unfold": Telling a Good Ghost Story,
Bard-Style
Chapter Two: "There Is Method in It": Hamlet's Sinking Mental Health:
Diving Deep into the Soliloquies
Chapter Three: "Words of so Sweet Breath": Listening to Women's Voices:
What Ophelia and Gertrude Reveal
Chapter Four: "Like the Painting of a Sorrow": Drawing Scenes from Hamlet:
Getting Visual with the Text
Chapter Five: "I Have Been Sexton/Sixteene Here": How Old Is Hamlet Anyway:
Getting Gritty with Textual History
Epilogue: "This Business is Well Ended"
Appendix B: "I Have Some Rights of Memory": A Note on Fortinbras
Glossary: "Words, words, words"
Works Cited
About the Author