East Greenwich High School Library: Shakespeare
PBS Shakespeare Uncovered video series
- Behind each of Shakespeare's play is a story. PBS video series available for streaming.
- Teachers: Ask Mrs. Steever for the username and password to view series videos. Special thanks to East Greenwich COA for sponsoring our library membership to PBS / WSBN.
- PBS Learning Media Shakespeare Uncovered teaching collectionAccess a variety of teaching resources to delve deeper into the Shakespeare Uncovered video series. Teachers can create free PBS accounts by signing in with their GSuite account information.
BBC The Hollow Crown video series
- The Hollow CrownThe Hollow Crown is a BBC Great Performances series showcasing four filmed adaptations of Shakespeare’s most gripping history plays: Richard II; Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; and Henry V.
The interactive and video resources in this collection are designed to aid teachers in exploring these complex plays with their students. Use the viewing guide, supplemental teaching tips, discussion questions, background essays, and activities to analyze and compare the films with Shakespeare’s original text, discover major themes, and delve deeper into the stories’ historical backgrounds.
Teachers: Ask Mrs. Steever for the username and password to access full episodes of the videos. Hoping to have WSBN / PBS membership sponsored by East Greenwich COA.
EDSITEment Shakespeare
EDSITEment, a partnership among the National Endowment for the Humanities, Verizon Foundation, and the National Trust for the Humanities, offers a treasure trove of K-12 high quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of Literature and Language Arts, Foreign Languages, Art and Culture, and History and Social Studies.
EDSITEment Shakespeare lessons help teachers unlock the Bard for students of all ages. From the complex nature of revenge in Hamlet to the happy/unhappy endings in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, these lessons provide teachers with many activities to guide students through the close and deep reading of the plays required by the Common Core State Standards initiative. Students will revel in Shakespeare’s language, including his use of puns, and explore multiple interpretations of the plays.