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Teaching Hamlet and Henry IV, Part 1: Shakespeare Set Free (Folger Shakespeare Library) Paperback – Illustrated, August 1, 2006

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The world’s leading center for Shakespeare studies! Created, taught, and written by real teachers, The Folger Shakespeare Library is one of the world’s leading centers for scholarship, learning, and culture.

Dedicated to advancing knowledge and increasing understanding of Shakespeare and the early modern period, the Folger is home to the world’s largest Shakespeare collection and one of the leading collections of books and materials of the entire early modern period (1500-1750). Combining a world-class research library and scholarly programs; leadership in curriculum, training, and publishing for K-12 education; and award-winning performing arts, exhibitions, and lectures, the Folger is Shakespeare’s home in America.

This volume of the Shakespeare Set Free series is written by institute faculty and participants, and includes the latest developments in recent scholarship. It bristles with the energy created by teaching and learning Shakespeare from the text and through active performance, and reflects the experience, wisdom, and wit of real classroom teachers in schools and colleges throughout the United States.
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If you have funds, time and energy for only one Shakespeare resource this year, this is it.

About the Author

Dr. Peggy O’Brien is a classroom teacher who founded the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Education Department in 1981. She set the Library’s mission for K–12 students and teachers then and began to put it in motion; among a range of other programs, she founded and directed the Library’s intensive Teaching Shakespeare Institute, was instigator and general editor of the popular Shakespeare Set Free series and expanded the Library’s education work across the country. In 1994, she took a short break from the Folger—twenty years—but returned to further expand the education work and to engage in the Folger’s transformation under the leadership of Library Director Michael Witmore. She is the instigator and general editor of The Folger Guides to Teaching Shakespeare series.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster; Illustrated edition (August 1, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0743288491
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0743288491
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.01 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.7 x 11 inches
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Mary Hodge
5.0 out of 5 stars A Must-Own Resource for Teachers!
Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2015
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The primer for taking Shakespeare off of the page and getting the students on their feet. The Bard did not intend for us to read the play and answer the questions at the end of each act! "The play is the thing….' if you are tired of struggling to get students to enjoy and benefit from reading and UNDERSTANDING Shakespeare, then the Shakespeare Set Free series is for you! The rich assignments benefit students as readers, writers and consumers of complex texts! Students get to participate in "on your feet" activities that aid in understanding the play (in terms of character, plot, themes, etc) and lead to deep learning and transfer! Activities are organized by a calendar for teaching each play and its accompanying lessons. This series changed how I teach Shakespeare.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A FANTASTIC resource for any teacher of Shakespeare
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2015
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This is an excellent approach for teaching Hamlet in my classroom. It keeps the students up and engaged! Shakespeare is meant to be performed, and this curriculum provides a LOT of opportunities for getting up and moving around and acting the play out, which contributes to understanding in ways that simple summary or explanation ever could.

This is a FANTASTIC resource.
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Joseph
5.0 out of 5 stars Folger Rocks
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2013
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As always, Folger is the epitome of Shakespearian expertise, and it shines through the offerings in this book. As a teacher the "Set Free" series enables me to enhance my lessons and ensure that they are new, fresh, exciting, intriguing, motivating, and educational. This books gets me there when it can be difficult to do it alone sometimes. :-)
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Kaitlin Bevis
5.0 out of 5 stars Love this series
Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2013
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I bought this for a unit on Hamlet and loved every single activity, their timeline is a bit unrealistic for most schools because we rarely have that much time to devote to one play, but you can pick and choose and help the kids to get a great insight into Hamlet
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3.0 out of 5 stars I generally love the Shakespeare Set Free series, but...
Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2016
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I generally love the Shakespeare Set Free series (I've used these books to help me craft lessons/units for Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night's Dream) (I also recently purchased the book for Twelfth Night, and its lessons are in-line with what I have come to expect from the Folger Library, and I am excited to try them with my students). HOWEVER, the unit on Henry IV Part 1 befuddles me. Granted, I started skimming after a while (why waste my time), but it seemed to me that the basic unit is: "Put your students into three groups: courtiers, pub crawlers, rebels. Have them read an act for homework, then they act out scenes in class. Repeat." There's no evident scaffolding or instruction. There are no action strategies to help the students out. I'm at a loss. Perhaps this unit is building on skills introduced in the Hamlet unit that precedes it in the book (I'm not teaching Hamlet next year, so I didn't read that unit), but in my experience no other Folger SSF book is structured this way. If you're looking at this book to help you plan a H4.1 unit, my advice is to borrow it from the library (the essays in the beginning are worthwhile) or forgo it altogether. I found materials on RSC's Website and in the Cambridge School edition of the play to be far more inspiring than anything in here.
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L. Sullivan
5.0 out of 5 stars If you teach Shakespeare, buy this.
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2014
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This is a series that I had heard talked about among other AP teachers - when I first received it, I wasn't sure what to think, but it really is very useful and practical. I know my students will benefit from reading Hamlet this way.
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Keith Kasper
2.0 out of 5 stars I'm very disappointed with this book
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2017
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I'm very disappointed with this book. The quality of the pages is far inferior to the Macbeth book I bought four years ago. The paper is very pulp like, flimsy and sort of transparent. The ink bleeds and the print is not very sharp. I was pretty excited to get this to try some different things with my class for Hamlet. It is difficult for me to read the pages.
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Melanie Owens
1.0 out of 5 stars Not really useful for teaching
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2018
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This book, and the others of the series, is not useful for teachers. It won't help at all in lesson planning.
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