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By Heart: “Come, Night” + New Thomas Hardy Challenge

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Romeo and Juliet

Join author Megan Willome as she learns William Shakespeare’s ‘Come, Night’ from ‘Romeo and Juliet’ By Heart while savoring this season of extra night.

Filed Under: A Poem in Every Heart, Blog, By Heart, Poems, poetry, Shakespeare

Poetry Prompt: Your Queen Mab—What Helps Or Haunts You?

By Callie Feyen 1 Comment

Brilliant Purple Flower Haunts

Join author Callie Feyen as she shares an excerpt from The Teacher Diaries, and explores the dreams we have that both help and haunt us.

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Sun and Moon Poems: Night Poetry Prompt

By Callie Feyen 7 Comments

Join author Callie Feyen as she confesses her fear of teaching Romeo and Juliet, and realizes there is much more to see than what she’s afraid of.

Filed Under: English Teaching, English Teaching Resources, Night Poems, Poetry Classroom, poetry teaching resources, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, writer's group resources, Writing, writing prompt, writing prompts

Cross-Generational Friendships: Where’s My Daughter? Call Her Forth

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Beautiful Red Leaves Juliet Thoughts

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Filed Under: Blog, Cross-Generational Friendships, Friendship Project, Patron Only, Shakespeare, The Teacher Diaries

Reading in the Wild: August’s Pages

By Megan Willome 17 Comments

Come learn the secrets of being a wild reader. Or just share your August pages. Megan Willome leads the way, with her August good reads.

Filed Under: Blog, Book Love, Literacy for Life, Reading in the Wild, Shakespeare

Great Friendship Tales: Shakespeare and ‘Exit, Pursued by a Bear’

By Megan Willome 6 Comments

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Filed Under: Blog, Classic Plays, Friendship Project, Patron Only, Shakespeare

Commit Poetry: Romeo & Juliet’s Two Households

By Sandra Heska King 5 Comments

Commit Poetry Romeo & Juliet Ferns

Sandra Heska King winds up her memorization of selections from Romeo & Juliet among crayfish and shoulder-high ferns, considering the divisions of two houses.

Filed Under: Blog, Commit Poetry, Poetry Dare, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare

Nothing Lost: Shakespeare Adapted

By Megan Willome 8 Comments

Nothing is lost when you take the time to see Shakespeare adapted—in film or on stage.

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Birthdays & Birthstones Poetry Prompt—The Tempest as Fairy Tale

By Kortney Garrison 2 Comments

birthday candles poetry prompt

Explore Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and write a fairy tale poem about a royal birth where magic is afoot and things aren’t what they seem.

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Commit Poetry: Romeo and Juliet

By Sandra Heska King 19 Comments

Poetry Dare Romeo and Juliet red rose

Sandra Heska King takes a dare to commit more poetry for National Poetry Month. This time, it’s Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

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Shakespeare (via Ian Doescher) Does Star Wars

By Glynn Young 7 Comments

Golden Tunnel Shakespeare Star Wars

Writer Ian Doescher has taken the stories of “Star Wars” and applied Shakespeare to them, as in “The Empire Striketh Back.”

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Haiku Poems, poetry, Shakespeare

“A pair of star-cross’d lovers:” Romeo & Juliet and Eleanor & Park

By Megan Willome 6 Comments

Did you like “Eleanor & Park”? You’ll love “Romeo & Juliet.” (Or vice versa.)

Filed Under: Blog, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, The Teacher Diaries

What the World Needs Now is Love

By tspoetry 7 Comments

There are two love stories we’re honored to share with a world that needs love. Come learn the secret (and join in a few congratulations!).

Filed Under: Blog, English Teaching Resources, New Release!, Shakespeare, The Teacher Diaries, Valentine's Day, william shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet: Kissing a Fair Dragon in His Cave

By Callie Feyen 12 Comments

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When Callie Feyen teaches Romeo and Juliet, she uses the Oxford Press edition, and it is this one-sentence paragraph she makes sure the students discuss: “And then she meets Romeo.”

Filed Under: Blog, Literacy Starts With Love, Shakespeare, The Teacher Diaries

“The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606″

By Glynn Young 2 Comments

Shakespeare in Stone The Year of Lear

“The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606” by James Shapiro is a masterful re-creation of a critical year in the life of William Shakespeare.

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Books, Classic Plays, King Lear, Macbeth, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Files

Shakespeare and Company: Playing the Fool Poetry Prompt

By Heather Eure 28 Comments

Shakespeare_and_Company_Playing_the_Fool

This week’s poetry prompt is for Fools. Put on your Jester hat and join us for some poetic and witty commentary in the style of the Shakespearean Fool.

Filed Under: Ballad Poems, Blog, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Shakespeare, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Top 10 Shakespeare Sonnets

By Will Willingham 13 Comments

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Odds are Shakespeare wrote far more than 154 sonnets. But of the 154 that have survived, here are 10 of the best Shakespeare sonnets.

Filed Under: Blog, Poems, Shakespeare, shakespeare poems, shakespeare sonnets, Sonnets

Shakespeare & Company: Write Me a Melody Poetry Prompt

By L.L. Barkat 22 Comments

Shakespeare Poetry Prompt Purple Flowers in a Forest

Come write with us for a ballad poetry prompt or a sonnet poetry prompt, with Shakespeare as our guide.

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Shakespeare & Company: This One Doesn’t Belong Photo & Poetry Prompt

By L.L. Barkat 31 Comments

This One Doesn't Belong Photo Prompt Bus in Field

Strangeness arrests. It can cause inquiry, new vision, fear, a will to act (or not act). Let’s harness the power of strangeness in this week’s prompt.

Filed Under: Blog, Dream Poems, Photo Play, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Shakespeare, Shakespeare-Themed Poems, Themed Writing Projects, writing prompts

Why Does Hamlet Wait to Kill the King?

By Sara Barkat 3 Comments

Why did Hamlet wait to kill the king? Crumbling Wall

Did William Shakespeare make a bad plot choice in Hamlet? Why does Hamlet wait to kill the king? To answer the question, one must understand the play’s nature.

Filed Under: Blog, Hamlet, Literary Analysis, Shakespeare

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