FOR TEACHERS

• Lesson Plans
• Music Be the Food of Love
• M.C. Bard
• Strike a Pose
• Performing Modernized Shakespeare
• Patriarchy in King Lear and As I Lay Dying
• Some Excellent Dumb Discourse
• Whose (Is)land Is This?
• Shakespeare was a Black Woman
• We Few, We Happy Few
• Tom Hanks and Caliban

NCTE English Language Arts Standards

1. Students read a wide range of print and nonprint texts to build an understanding of texts, of themselves, and of the cultures of the United States and the world; to acquire new information; to respond to the needs and demands of society and the workplace; and for personal fulfillment. Among these texts are fiction and nonfiction, classic and contemporary works.
 
3. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).
 
12. Students use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes (e.g., for learning, enjoyment, persuasion, and the exchange of information).