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Posted: June 08 2006 at 4:05pm | IP Logged Quote LLMom

My dd would like to study Shakespeare. ANy good ideas? I would like some info on a Catholic perspective. THe only thing I have found is seton has a course and the explain the plays from a Catholic point of view.

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Posted: June 09 2006 at 1:14am | IP Logged Quote Leonie

We haven't used a formal Catholic resource - but just read Shakespeare and watched video versions and been to some community theatre and just talked!

Don't know if this will help but there is an online Shakespeare unit -

mini Shakespeare unit

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Posted: Aug 12 2006 at 7:36pm | IP Logged Quote Cay Gibson

Found this art site for Heroines of Shakespeare Plays which I thought might be good for notebooking and lapbooking purposes.

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Posted: Aug 12 2006 at 10:10pm | IP Logged Quote stefoodie

How about this?

The Catholic Shakespeare

and a NACHE tape from Prof. Russell also:

Scroll down to Henry Russell

and The Catholicism of Shakespeare's Plays

More from Fr. Milward:

Shakespeare the Papist

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Posted: Aug 13 2006 at 6:51am | IP Logged Quote Mary K

PBS had a show "In Search of Shakespeare" that discussed his possible Catholicism. My children have enjoyed Bruce Coville's Shakespeare stories. He presents them in an easy to understand way. The best way to do Shakespeare is to see it performed. Many towns have Shakespearean productions. Try doing a search under your town's name and Shakespeare.
I too have a Shakespeare lover.
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We decided to study Shakespeare this year. Well, I should say *I* decided they would study Shakespeare this year.

I have the book Shakepeare in the Classroom. At first they didn't want anything to do with it but right now as I am typing this they are in the classroom having a blast trying to read their parts.   

I picked parts for them (3 each and I get the rest). At first they were only supposed to highlight their lines for next time but as they were highlighting they were skimming over the words and decided they wanted to start with the first scene.

Julia just told me that was the most fun she ever had! Emily thought it was the worst play ever but that is because they don't know all the lines yet. Kate said, "I want my money back." (as a paying customer, )

Anyway, you might try that book and see what you think.

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I love this old thread on Shakespeare & have referred to it several times. Kelly is such a resource on Shakespeare!

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My daughters have absolutely LOVED the videos of Shakespeare's comedies ("Much Ado About Nothing" being our favorite), and we're planning on a unit to compare video and some book reading (not sure we'll tackle the whole text or just do excerpts)....thanks for all the sites above...the links look wonderful!

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Posted: Sept 30 2006 at 9:47am | IP Logged Quote Jen L.

Just wanted to tell you that the "Living Books for the Ears" website is selling (at an introductory price of $19 through Monday) a MP3 CD with LOTS of Shakespeare on it, here. Though I haven't heard this CD (it's new), I have ordered from them in the past and been pleased.

(You can also sign up for a couple of free "shows" each week by going to www.homeschoolradioshows.com/)

P.S. I received an email that said that if you order the Shakespeare by Oct 1st, you will get the mystery CD included -- it's not going to be just for the first 100 customers!

P.P.S. I am not affiliated with the company, I just sound like I am!



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