Teaching Hamlet in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom [Paperback]

Teaching Hamlet in the Twenty-First Century Classroomis for both the novice and veteran teacher and offers fresh takes on teaching Shakespeares iconic Hamlet. Its lessons push students to engage deeply and creatively. Rooted in text and performance, each chapter provides ready-to-use learning objectives, reading guides, notes on language, critical backgrounds, discussion questions, film-based strategies, and project-based culminating activities that embrace students role in meaning-making. It is the book for teachers who want to get their students to love Hamlet.Teaching Hamlet in the Twenty-First Century Classroom offers fresh takes on teaching Shakespeare's Hamlet. Each chapter provides learning objectives, guides, discussion questions, film-based strategies, and activities that embrace students' role in meaning-making.Dr. Joseph P. Haugheyis an associate professor of English education and assistant director of teacher education at Northwest Missouri State University, where he teaches classes in composition, literature, and education. His other research interests beyondHamletinclude incorporating graphic novels in antiracist pedagogies, the use of graphic adaptations in teaching canonical texts, the historical analysis of Shakespeare's evolving role in American education, and general issues more broadly in teacher preparation, critical literacy, antiracism in schools, and rural education. Before joining the faculty at Northwest, Dr. Haughey taught middle and high school ELA in California and Alaska.

In this valuable and more-than-helpful text, Dr. Haughey tackles the many challenges of teaching this iconic Shakespeare play to contemporary American students. Each chapter includes issues, questions, and activities honed over many years in the classroom that will not only guide students through the hazards ofHamletbut offer to teachers who read and use this book, ideas that will carry them through the more difficult parts of teaching,lS1