The Busy Teacher's Guide to Hamlet, Paperback/Heather Wright

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These are the notes you wish that the previous teacher had left behind-the basics that you need to get on with your job: scene summaries, homework questions, backgrounds to the play and Shakespeare's time, themes and essay topics. Your teaching time is limited, but you want your students to get as much out of the text as possible in the short time in which you have to teach it. In your wildest dreams, you want them all to love it. At the least, (which isn't a small thing at all) you want them to feel like competent readers with the ability to take on a new text and find the keys to understanding it. To help you find what you need, this book is organized into 7 sections: 1. Context 2. Key Themes and Images 3. Format/Genre 4. Scene-by-Scene - plus handy homework questions 5. Topics for Journal Writing 6. The 5-Paragraph Essay - plus an essay-writing template, a sample essay, and links to evaluation rubrics. 7. Online Resources About the Author: Heather Wright is a busy freelance writer, currently teaching business communication skills at Conestoga College. Her freelance work has been published by local and national publications and on the web. Heather writes for several audiences: business people looking for tips to help them become better communicators in print and in person, writers of all ages, teachers of English and Language Arts, and teen and pre-teen readers. Heather worked for many years in companies, both local and global in scope, and now runs her own freelance writing business. Through these experiences, she developed her own communications skill set that she now shares in her Better Business Communications books and with her students, in the classroom, as well as, in the workplace. Heather's stories for children and teens have been published in Kayak: Canada's History Magazine for Teens and by Carmel Tree Publishing. Heather enjoys presenting writing workshops for writers of all ages, and has done many over the years through her links with the Canadian Autho