Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Demonstrate a comfortable level of reading and understanding the language of Shakespeare, in poems and plays
• Show a sense of Elizabethan culture and history
• Recognize the difference between early and late plays, in order become aware of Shakespeare’s development a an artist
• Develop a process of analyzing plays and sonnets
• Demonstrate improved inferential skills
• Read both comedies and tragedies with insight
• Identify controlling ideas and themes characteristic of Shakespeare’s plays
• Develop writing-about=literature skills and techniques
• Practice effective group skills
• Demonstrate oral presentation skills
• ENJOY reading, discussing, and writing about Shakespeare
• Assess own skills