Don't be intimidated by Shakespeare! This self-paced course helps teens learn to enjoy the work of the Bard while gaining some good analysis skills. The course introduces four favorite plays and some of the most famous sonnets.

The plays covered in this course:

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream 
• Hamlet 
• Much Ado About Nothing
• King Lear

The required textbook includes:

• background information
• vocabulary
• questions by Act and Scene
• suggested writing assignments
• enrichment activities
• recommended passages for memorization
• answer key

This video course aims to inspire students rather than tire them with busywork that kills the story.

Instead of attempting to start with analysis and the deciphering of Elizabethan English, this course introduces teens to the Bard and his amazing ability to tell stories, to create characters to whom we can relate, and to present life situations to which we can connect emotionally and intellectually.

Literature analysis skills covered include:

• character analysis
• allusion
• soliloquies
• metaphors
• malapropisms 

Note: This course requires purchase of the 7SistersHomeschool Four from Shakespeare curriculum.