Enriching Shakespeare in Middle School with Companion Graphic Novels
Help me give my students an enriched Shakespeare, Hamlet, and drama experience with the use of the companion graphic novels.
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Cahill's classroom raised $333
This project is fully funded
My Students
"It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." My students are choosing to read, but we currently need books to make some of our required reading more accessible. My students are exposed and immersed to a lot of "classic literature" because of our required whole class novels studies, but we currently need to make Hamlet more accessible to my 8th grade learners.
I have a very hard working group of students, however some students come to me in seventh and eighth grade, and still haven't found the books that they connect to, and that can truly make them lifelong readers.
Having a graphic novel that still teaches them the significance of classic literature is the perfect way to connect "classic" literature with more modern times.
Many of these students have a desire and the motivation to read books, but the books that could really show them how powerful reading is aren't in our classroom library yet!
My Project
These graphic novels will be used in companion with the original Hamlet play by Shakespeare in order to enhance my eighth graders' reading experience when reading something as complex as Hamlet.
These books will be used to teach so many of our crucial eighth grade literature standards and they will push my students to be reading, sharing, critically thinking, and pushing themselves as readers.
My students read many "classics" because of our curriculum, but I think it is equally as important that they read new, varied, and relevant books so ALL of my students can find book genres, characters, plots, and history that they can connect to.
On that same note, these books will challenge my true readers to share their thinking, teach others, and enrich their vocabulary because we can use them in companion with the original versions of Hamlet. By participating in class novel studies, all my students will be exposed to the same literature, yet still allow them to challenge themselves as individual readers.
All students will learn to be in a community of readers that truly think about and just love reading. Being exposed to the same great literature is such a vital piece for us to create a whole community of lifelong readers, and these books are just the ticket for building that beautiful reading community.
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