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The Shakespeare Sessions is an educational concept album on Shakespeare's three most-taught plays: Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo & Juiet. Each song is a musical gateway into the characters, plots, and themes of the plays. Simple modern lyrics are peppered with Shakepearean verse to scaffold comprehension and facilitate retention for 21st century students.
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THE SHAKESPEARE SESSIONS
About the Album
THE SHAKESPEARE SESSIONS
Complete Teacher's Guide
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About the Book
The Shakespeare Sessions Complete Teacher's Guide works in concert with the album and provides an array of resources to engage students in Shakespeare's plays.
Song-to-Play Questions: Compare and contrast simple modern lyrics with Shakespearean verse.
ACT-like Multiple Choice: Analyze key speeches through ACT-type questions and develop strategies to ace the ACT.
Close Reading Questions : Act-by-act, scene-by-scene close reading questions provide a comprehensive analysis of entire plays. Sequenced question clusters follow Bloom's taxonomy for maximum access and comprehension.
Thematic Matching & Writing Prompts : Connect song verses to key passages from the plays and compose simple paragraphs to practice the structure of argument.
Quips, Phrases, Lines, Speeches : A high-impact diet of Shakespeare's greatest quips and lines, poetic phrases and figures of speech.
Key Vocabulary: A helpful collection of words, words, words.
Marc Furigay is an artist, educator, and creator of Classroom Jams and The Shakespeare Sessions album and teacher's guide.