TEACHING LITERATURE IN THE CLASSROOM.....

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  It is important that young children make contact with one of the best playwrights in the world. On way of doing this is with something children love- cartoons. Why not teach Shakespeare from The lion King?
  
  If young students like The Lion King, they will like Shakespeare. The teaching activities are related to the main aspects of narrative writing by obtaining as much as we teachers can from them: summarizing, critical thinking, working and learning in cooperative groups. Did Shakespeare write the plot for The Lion King more than 400 years ago?
  
  I would say that he did it in a way as we can find lots of similarities not just with his Hamlet but some other of his works such as A Midsummer Nights Dreams, Macbeth, Henry IV his sonnets.
  
  On the other hand, teaching Shakespeare to second grade students could seem a difficult task because today children are more interested in the technology than in other aspects of the education, such as English literature. But if we chose plays which contains a magical word, the interest can raise. We can quote fairy tales such as Midsummer’s Night Dream.