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Midsummer's Night Dream!

My students need a class set of "Midsummer Night's Dream", the accompanying Spark Notes, and additional resources for this Shakespeare unit including the CD on tape and illustrated versions.

  • $497 goal

This project expired on August 2, 2010.

This project expired on August 2, 2010.

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Ms. T.
Grades 9-12

My Students

Playful Puck, bumbling Bottom, love-sick Helena, and regal Titania! I want my students to meet them all! My 24 wonderful freshmen have never read Shakespeare nor seen a live performance. This April, that's all about to change.

My freshmen are funny and great.

Their Pennsylvania high school, however, rarely meets their expectations. The school is persistently failing under the No Child Left Behind Act. The kids rarely have opportunities beyond the classroom and the sports field.

My Project

However, I'd like to give my freshmen a chance to experience something totally different while preparing them for college. At the end of April, we are going to see a professional Shakespeare company perform, "A Midsummer Night's Dream." To get ready for this exciting performance, the kids will read and study the play, with each kid getting her own copy of the play and the Spark Notes to keep. We will use additional texts to supplement our learning, such as illustrated storybooks and audio-recordings of the play.

This project will give my kids their first taste of a world outside, but not far from, our school.

It will expose them to the greatest English writer and to the fun of theater. It will prepare them for college, where they will be expected to read and understand Shakespeare. With your help, we can provide both a rigorous academic curriculum and a fun school environment.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

24 students impacted
Ms. T. Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

24 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
A Midsummer Night's Dream (No Fear Shakespeare Series) William Shakespeare, Sparknotes Editors • Barnes and Noble $5.35 24 $128.40
Midsummer Night's Dream (SparkNotes Literature Guide) William Shakespeare • Barnes and Noble $3.98 24 $95.52
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare Made Easy Study Guides Series) Tanya Grosz, Linda Wendler • Barnes and Noble $17.09 1 $17.09
Midsummer Night's Dream, a Pel William Shakespeare, Stephen Orgel (Editor), A. R. Braunmuller (Editor), Russ McDonald (Introduction) • Barnes and Noble $5.40 1 $5.40
Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and MacBeth (Folger Shakespeare Library Series) Teaching Shakespeare Institute, Peggy O'Brien (Editor), Michael Tolaydo (Editor), Jeanne Addison Roberts (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $14.40 1 $14.40
Midsummer Night's Dream: Texts and Contexts William Shakespeare, Gail Kern Paster (Editor), Skiles Howard (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $11.47 1 $11.47
Midsummer Night's Dream ((Manga Shakespeare Series)) Kate Brown, Adapted by Richard Appignanesi, Designed by Andy Huckle • Barnes and Noble $9.85 1 $9.85
William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Bruce Coville, William Shakespeare, Dennis Nolan (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare, Laura Solimene (Editor), Ken Landgraf (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $9.85 1 $9.85
A Fully- Dramatized Recording of William Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare, Narrated by Amanda Root, Narrated by Arkangel Cast, Narrated by Roy Hudd, Read by Roy Hudd • Barnes and Noble $17.95 1 $17.95
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Arthur Rackham (Illustrator), William Shakespeare • Barnes and Noble $14.35 1 $14.35
A Midsummer Night's Dream Fairies Paper Dolls Created by Tom Tierney • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream for Kids: 3 melodramitc plays for 3 group Sizes Brendan Kelso, Shana Lopez (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.99 1 $8.99
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare's Tales Series) Retold by Beverley Birch, Ted Dewan (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.05 1 $8.05
The Young Reader's Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream Adam McKeown, William Shakespeare, Antonio Javier Caparo (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.96 1 $11.96
Midsummer Nights Dream (Shakespeare for Everyone) William Shakespeare, Norman Bancroft-Hunt (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $10.79 1 $10.79
McGraw-Hill's PodClass A Midsummer Night's Dream Study Guide (MP3 Disk) Jane Mallison • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45

Materials cost

$390.96

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.86

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$431.82

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$64.52

Total project goal

$496.34

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