July 8, 2024

How to Support Students With Reading Shakespeare's Plays

It can be a challenge to make modern day connections with Shakespeare's 400 year old plays.⁠ Here's how I support students with reading these dramas.


When I taught high school, I always ended the year with one of Shakespeare's plays, Romeo & Juliet for ninth grade and Julius Caesar for tenth.⁠ Students loved getting into character and acting out scenes from the plays. But it can be a challenge to make modern day connections with a text written over 400 years ago.⁠ Here's how I supported students with reading one of Shakespeare's plays.⁠