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by Joseph P. Haughey (Author)
Teaching Hamlet in the Twenty-First Century Classroom is for both the novice and veteran teacher and offers fresh takes on teaching Shakespeare's iconic Hamlet. Its lessons push students to engage deeply and creatively. Rooted in text and performance, each chapter provides ready-to-use learning objectives, reading guides, notes on language, critical backgrounds, discussion questions, film-based strategies, and project-based culminating activities that embrace students' role in meaning-making. It is the book for teachers who want to get their students to love Hamlet.
Author Biography
Dr. Joseph P. Haughey is an associate professor of English education and assistant director of teacher education at Northwest Missouri State University, where he teaches classes in composition, literature, and education. His other research interests beyond Hamlet include incorporating graphic novels in antiracist pedagogies, the use of graphic adaptations in teaching canonical texts, the historical analysis of Shakespeare's evolving role in American education, and general issues more broadly in teacher preparation, critical literacy, antiracism in schools, and rural education. Before joining the faculty at Northwest, Dr. Haughey taught middle and high school ELA in California and Alaska.
