William Shakespeare, As You Like It
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| As You Like It E-Notes Lesson Plan A complete teaching unit and reproducible individual learning packet including a chapter-by-chapter study guide, topics for discussion, vocabulary, and a multiple choice and essay test with answer key. |
60-Second Shakespeare
On this page, a tabloid-style summary of the play from the BBC. Follow links to learn how your students can produce something similar.
"All the world's a Stage"
Hypertext of the speech by Jacques.
As You Like It
Summary, themes, imagery, symbolism, more.
As You Like It
This 30-page document is a performance guide for a middle-school production. Access requires Adobe Reader or compatible application.
As You Like It Teaching Guide
Introduction, scene-by-scene synopsis, teaching activities, genre studies, themes, language, act-by-act discussion questions, projects, and more. Requires Adobe Reader or compatible application for access.
As You Like It Word Plays
The students will explore Jaques' "Seven Ages of Man" speech by creating word plays. The goal is to get the students to think about the sounds and shapes of individual words in a monologue and to put actions with those words.
Folger Study Guide: As You Like It
Plot summary, a list of characters, background information, interactive activities, and discussion questions.
As You Like It
Follow up activities, including a wedding reception.
A Guide to Teaching the Interpretation of Shakespeare's As You Like It
These 8 lessons were designed for inner-city high school students. Students work with vocabulary words, character traits, reading comprehension skills, and seeing parallels between the events of the play and modern life. A final assignment asks students to use the writing process to write a review.
Introducing As You Like It
By the end of the class, the students should know the names of the characters and know a few of the lines that each character says. They will also use the changing relationships to predict the plot of the play.
Lose the Lute!
This lesson allows students to choose modern songs and match them with the mood established by the scripted songs in As You Like It or other plays. To substitute well, students will need a full understanding of the original songs' tone and intent. This lesson will require one day before reading the play and up to one full week after completing it.
Playing the Fool
While students are accustomed to watching comedic films and television shows, analyzing humor in Shakespeare’s text is another matter. In this lesson, students will take a scene from As You Like It and examine it for its comedic appeal.
A Question of Style
Students will explore the nature of comedy by informally staging the opening scenes in Shakespeare's As You Like It. Students will consider a variety of stylistic approaches that may be used in staging the play and select the one they think is most interesting and that will most effectively convey the text to the audience. Students will seek support for their choices from theatrical tradition.
Sculptures of the Seven Ages
Using a partner as "clay," students sculpt concepts from Jaques' soliloquy.
Surfing with the Bard: Any Play
At the top of this page are links to activities that will work with multiple plays.
Touchstone vs. Jaques: Analyzing Mood in As You Like It
Students read Act three, Scene three. Working in small groups they analyze the characters Touchstone and Jaques selecting words, phrases, lines, and/or other literary devices that reveal their character's mood. After performing the scene, students compare and contrast the elements of characterization that conveyed each character's mood.
www.AsYouLikeIt
Students use online resources to examine patterns of imagery in As You Like It. By comparing these patterns to those of other Shakespeare plays, the students will draw conclusions about the different reasons Shakespeare uses imagery in the play.
