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Anthony and Cleopatra: Teacher Lesson Plans
Anthony and Cleopatra: Teacher Lesson Plans
Anthony and Cleopatra: Teacher Lesson Plans
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Anthony and Cleopatra: Teacher Lesson Plans

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Following Common Core Standards, this lesson plan for William Shakespeare’s, " Anthony and Cleopatra" is the perfect solution for teachers trying to get ideas for getting students excited about a book.
BookCaps lesson plans cover five days worth of material. It includes a suggested reading schedule, discussion questions, essay topics, homework assignments, and suggested web resources.

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PublisherBookCaps
Release dateFeb 28, 2013
ISBN9781301177707
Anthony and Cleopatra: Teacher Lesson Plans
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    Introduction

    William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford, England, and died in 1616. Therefore, he lived the majority of his life in the Elizabethan era of British history (1558-1603). After Elizabeth I died, James I became king, thus beginning the Jacobean era.

    Antony and Cleopatra is a dramatic tragedy by William Shakespeare. Written in 1606/1607, it is one of the author’s later works. Shakespeare’s source material for this play was The Life of Marcus Antonius in Plutarch’s non-fiction work, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans. Plutarch was a first-century Greek biographer. Shakespeare’s play is a dramatic adaptation of a period in the relationship of two real historical figures: Cleopatra and Mark Antony. Cleopatra lived from 69-30 B.C., and was queen of Egypt from 51-30 B.C. Mark Antony (Marcus Antonius), a Roman general and statesman, lived from 82-30 B.C.

    Since they were written in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Shakespeare’s plays have continued to be culturally relevant and widely read. His

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