Three easy steps could brighten a classroom. Secondly, students should read aloud and analyze several of Shakespeare's sonnets before reading a play. Lastly, Shakespeare should be taught with some level of intensity and excitement. The students should not have to endure a teacher reading passages to them in a lecture setting. Students should play an active role in their learning by choosing parts to read aloud and taking time to examine each scene they have read.
Journals are also great tools that can be used to reflect upon previous acts or scenes.
With this method, teachers are also able to efficiently track what the student has learned. Literature selections should not only reflect our multi-cultural society, but should also include what is truly great in history. Classics should not be shunned just because they don't know how to teach the literature of yesterday. All rights reserved. I encourage this.