Contributor Folger Shakespeare Library

Update
11-03-2015
Content Type
Lesson Plan
Grade Level
Ninth grade, Tenth grade, Eleventh grade, Twelfth grade
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This lesson includes a close reading and analysis of two film versions of the “To be or not to be” speech. Students write an essay analyzing Hamlet’s arguments, and it includes step-by-step instructions, questions to frame the analysis, and a printable word list for definitions and etymologies of key words.