Teaching Romeo and Juliet: A Differentiated Approach - Softcover

Decourcy, Delia; Fairchild, Lyn; Follet, Robin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814101127 ISBN 13: 9780814101124

Verlag: National Council of Teachers of English, 2007

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Delia DeCourcy, Lyn Fairchild, and Robin Follet offer a differentiated approach to teaching Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, including lesson plans focused on key scenes, close reader handouts geared toward different levels of readiness, and scaffolded reading activities.

Romeo and Juliet is one of the most-taught plays of Shakespeare, yet teachers are always looking for new and effective ways to make the material engaging and adaptable for all students—from those struggling to read to those able to analyze complicated sonnets. By using the concept of differentiated instruction, authors Delia DeCourcy, Lyn Fairchild, and Robin Follet provide a practical, easy-to-use guide for teaching the play that addresses a wide range of student readiness levels, interests, and learning styles. This differentiated approach helps students develop a deep understanding of Romeo and Juliet through activities such as cinematic interpretation, creative writing, dramatic interpretation, and Socratic discussion. An entire curriculum for teaching the play, the book features lesson plans focused on key scenes; scaffolded reading activities that address the different needs of novice, on-target, and advanced learners; quizzes, mini-lessons, and compacting guidelines; and close reader handouts geared toward different levels of readiness.

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Delia DeCourcy holds a BA in English with highest honors from Oberlin College and a master's degree from the Breadloaf School of English at Middlebury College. A nine-year veteran of the independent school English classroom, DeCourcy worked concurrently as an administrator, most recently as assistant head of the middle school at Cary Academy in Cary, North Carolina. Previously, she directed Summerbridge Louisville at Kentucky Country Day School, an academic enrichment program for public school students in which all teaching is performed by high school and college students. She also served as a teacher-editor for the online educational publication MidLink Magazine, sponsored by North Carolina State University, SAS Institute, and the University of Central Florida. DeCourcy was a 2002 recipient of a William Friday Fellowship at Cary Academy, and in 2005 her students' work was featured in Writing Magazine online. At work on her first novel, she is currently a student in the creative writing program at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she lives with her loyal German shepherd, Reign.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: National Council of Teachers of English
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0814101127
• ISBN 13: 9780814101124
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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