Victor Moeller contends that authentic learning begins only when teachers challenge students with real questions that demand solutions. Socrates Does Shakespeare: Seminars and Film will help teachers of the next generation develop skills of independent, reflective, and critical thinking. It explains how to use film to bring Shakespeare to life through comparison-contrast discussion and writing. This book includes: Lesson plans on Shakespearean tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth and Henry V, Lesson plans on Shakesperean comedies: Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Merchant of Venice, and Measure for Measure, Plot-check quizzes, Exercises on techniques of the Socratic method of teaching and learning, Guidelines for discussion and writing about the films, Basic questions of interpretation on the plays, Research topics for independent study, Film notation sheets. Moeller believes that anyone can acquire a life-long education from reading the works of Shakespeare-the ultimate English author-and that reading and meditation on Shakespearean plays can help form personal values.This book will be of interest to high school and college English teachers and college professors of education course.
Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, "Moral Disorder," with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships bringing Socrates Does Shakespeare : Seminars and Film ebook pdf to mind her award-winning 1996 novel, "Alias Grace." A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband in "Alphinland," the first of three loosely linked stories about the romantic geometries of a group of writers and artists. In "The Freeze-Dried Bridegroom," a man who bids on an auctioned storage space has a surprise. In "Lusus Naturae," a woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire. In "Torching the Dusties," an elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome comes to terms with the little people she keeps seeing, while a newly formed populist group gathers to burn down her retirement residence. And in "Stone Mattress," a long-ago crime is avenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatolite. In these nine tales, Margaret Atwood is at the top of her darkly humorous and seriously playful game."
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Author: Victor J. Moeller
Number of Pages: 216 pages
Published Date: 30 Aug 2005
Publisher: ScarecrowEducation
Publication Country: Lanham, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781578861774
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