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Victor Moeller contends that authentic learning begins only when teachers challenge students with real questions that demand solutions. Socrates Does Shakespeare: Seminars and Film will help teachers of the next generation develop skills of independent, reflective, and critical thinking. It explains how to use film to bring Shakespeare to life through comparison-contrast discussion and writing. This book includes: Lesson plans on Shakespearean tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth and Henry V, Lesson plans on Shakesperean comedies: Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Merchant of Venice, and Measure for Measure, Plot-check quizzes, Exercises on techniques of the Socratic method of teaching and learning, Guidelines for discussion and writing about the films, Basic questions of interpretation on the plays, Research topics for independent study, Film notation sheets. Moeller believes that anyone can acquire a life-long education from reading the works of Shakespeare-the ultimate English author-and that reading and meditation on Shakespearean plays can help form personal values.This book will be of interest to high school and college English teachers and college professors of education course.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Education Teaching skills & techniques

• Full title: Socrates Does Shakespeare
• Subtitle: Seminars and Film
• Author: Victor J. Moeller
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216
• EAN: 9781578861774
• ISBN: 1578861772
• ID: 05085020
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Weight: 621 g
• Dimensions: 279 × 215 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. July 2005

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