Grade- 10th English Honors GT & English IV AP
Teacher Name: Mr. Benjamin Stroud
Purpose and Rational: I am asking for $500 to build my Shakespearean Library for my GT and AP Lit class. I would like to do several literature circles with a variety of Shakespearean plays (comedies, tragedies and histories). William Shakespeare has helped this world through many crisis through universal themes that are timeless no matter your social, ethical, and ethnic background. His plays speak for humanity that are universal throughout eras.
Strategy: As a class, we would look at a Shakespearan play to fully understand the value of the themes and universal message one can see in his tragedy, comedies and histories. After analyzing and evaluating the inclass play, students will select another play in a literature circle to analyze the same universal themes seen in the inclass Shakespearean play. For the GT enrichment, students will select a scene and visually act out and present to classroom. Students will bring a modern twist and interpretation to an ageless tale.
External Resources: filming a scene
Evaluation Summary: I will measure students' growth through the visual and group discussion on their Shakespearean play circles. For my English IV AP students, the measure will be through a open-ended response based on a AP prompt (Q3). Lastly, I the highest form of measurement will be students no longer afraid to read and interpret Shakespearean plays, to see the value of canon rich literature.
Estimated Completion Date: 6 weeks
Items you plan to purchase with grant money: A variety of Shakespearean plays for a literature circle. I am hoping to get a class set of Julius Caesar and then 10 copies of other plays from Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, The Comedy of Errors, and Henry IV Part I and II.
The minimum amount I need to get started on this grant is: $526
