Teacher Resources

If, in your book, "star-crossed lovers" deserve a happy ending, As You Like It is just as you like it! This unit has been piloted with sixth-graders at Murray Middle School, and students just love it! It's also a wonderful companion for Romeo and Juliet.

A charming coming-of-age story in which Hal, a prince with a penchant for practical jokes, must step up when his nation and his father need him most.

This 15-class-period unit was designed for the middle school classroom, but is easily adapted for secondary school use. An ideal companion with Romeo and Juliet—a VERY different "take" on the ancient Greek Pyramus and Thisbe myth that students just LOVE!

These sonnet reading and poetry writing lessons may be used at any grade level.

This unit has been piloted in at least five schools in western Kentucky, mostly with eighth graders. Shakespeare in the Schools Partner teachers: please send your most successful lesson plans and writing prompts from your Twelfth Night units!

You can introduce your students to this fun and action-packed play using the activities included in the Twelfth Night in ONE Day lesson plan!

"Exit pursued by a Bear" and a statue that comes to life: meet National Common Core Standards for reading, speaking, listening, and writing with this engaging and provocative play about love, jealousy, forgiveness, and redemption. A wonderful companion play with Othello, one of the offerings at the 2014 Murray Shakespeare Festival.