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Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare!

Portrait of English playwright, William Shakespeare
Portrait of English playwright, William Shakespeare

is celebrated on聽April 23.聽Students at every grade level can be involved in activities to celebrate Shakespeare’s birth.聽The following from and provide more resources on Shakespeare.

Elementary students can begin learning about the rhyming structure of a by listening to and reading this type of poetry. They can also begin practicing with the number of .

Introduce Shakespeare to middle school students聽through popular culture. Pop culture provides an introduction to Shakespeare’s poetic devices in , which asks students to explore an excerpt from Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Demonstrate to high school students that Shakespeare always remains relevant through .聽YouTube can help students聽better appreciate literary聽details in Shakespeare and聽learn more about the聽cultural and aesthetic聽value of imitation, parody,聽and irony.

The act of translating Shakespearean text into contemporary language encourages student聽interest in further study of the text as described in this .

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