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1. Cal Shakes Overview
Cal Shakes’ Mission, Funders, and Partners ......................................3Artistic Learning Programs at Cal Shakes ..........................................4
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The Tempest
Overview
A Note to Teachers ........................................................................6Plot Summary ...............................................................................7Who’s Who: The Actors and the Characters ......................................9Character Map .............................................................................11Seeing the Play: Before and After ....................................................12Shakespeare’s Language .................................................................13Tempest Background and Fun Facts .................................................14
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The Tempest:
SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON
Such Stuff as…Romance ...............................................................17Such Stuff as…Tempest ................................................................19Such Stuff as…Exploration ............................................................20Such Stuff as…Caliban ..................................................................21Such Stuff as…Making Stage Magic: Elizabethan Special Effects .........22
4. Elizabethan Culture Overview
The Mysterious William Shakespeare ..............................................24Elizabethan Beliefs in Magic ..........................................................26
5. Resources
Books and Internet ........................................................................29
6. Classroom Activity Guide
Cal Shakes’ Mission and Funders .....................................................31Social Networking Character Study: “Shakesbook” ............................32Shipwreck in the Classroom ............................................................37Match the Quote: Translation to Modern Language ...........................39Dear Diary ....................................................................................41Shakespeare Mood Board........... ....................................................43Make It Work: Shakespeare’s Runway ..............................................46Musical Interlude: Soundtrack to
The Tempest
..................................53Brush Up Your Shakespeare Reference Sheet ....................................56Connections: A Scholar’s View of a Source for
The Tempest
................57Cal Shakes Critique: Elementary and Middle School ..........................58Cal Shakes Critique: Middle and High School ....................................60
Editor:
TrishTillman
Contributors:
Brooke Bishop, Evan Boomer, Daunielle Rasmussen, MarcusThompson, Sarah Wong
Copy Editors:
Stefanie Kalem and Marilyn Langbehn
Layout & Graphics:
Ilsa Brink, Jessica Reinhardt, Alvaro Villanueva
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