Teaching Hamlet in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom

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Teaching Hamlet in the Twenty-First Century Classroom is 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.

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Across five chapters, Haughey provides excellent suggestions for teachers who face the challenges of teaching not only Hamlet but all of Shakespeare. . . Haughey structures each chapter with appropriate learning objectives and recommendations for reading aloud only those portions of text related to each chapter's suggested higher-level thinking activities. . . Each chapter offers insights for studying Shakespeare as a creative writer, an actor, a literary critic, an artist, and an editor. * Choice *
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 of Hamlet but offer to teachers who read and use this book, ideas that will carry them through the more difficult parts of teaching, not just Hamlet, but all of Shakespeare. In Teaching Hamlet in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom, 'the play IS the thing! -- Terri Bourus, general editor of The New Oxford Shakespeare, author of Young Shakespeares Young Hamlet: Print, Piracy, and Performance. editor of Shakespeare and the First Hamlet
Joseph Haughey states that Hamlet is a play meant to teach readers how to think, and in the carefully designed and multi-layered chapters that follow, he proves to be a brilliant guide for enabling students to engage with the play and learn about themselves through such thinking. -- Edward Rocklin, author of Performance Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare

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Dr. Joseph P. Haughey is 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 beyond Hamlet include 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.