This title seeks to explicitly break down skills for students and scaffold them to practise these skills. One of the skills the book is focusing on is close reading - getting students to actually understand the language and imagery of Shakespeare, not just the plot.
To scaffold students to do this, each scene of the play is broken into small, digestible chunks of around 26 lines. Each of these passages appears on one page, introduced with an overview of what happens in the passage and followed by some analysis, often with engaging visuals. The brevity of the passages means you can read through it multiple times with students; once for an overview, twice for meaning, a third time for analysis. Since an important part of close reading is annotation, on the left hand side of each passage is room for students to take notes. |