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title: CERCA Now: Shakespeare
description: 3 Topic to Spark Courageous Thinking This Week!
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# [CERCA Now: Shakespeare](https://blog.thinkcerca.com/shakespeare)

 Written by [ThinkCERCA Team](https://blog.thinkcerca.com/author/thinkcerca-team) | November 28, 2022

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## ELEMENTARY

Meet William Shakespeare

[View Lesson](http://learn.thinkcerca.com/content/lessons/ARP_Core_MeetWilliamShakespeare_G3-5?utm_campaign=No%20campaign&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_HwJTk53IcNySq7duOvo0NEbmTLmMQMVQ2en4RcmcEJkjJHeEsSaPgq2wS8hKtpPH7VPhi)

## MIDDLE

Shakespeare’s Other World

[View Lesson](http://learn.thinkcerca.com/content/lessons/ARP_Core_ShakespearesOtherWorld_G6-8?utm_campaign=No%20campaign&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_HwJTk53IcNySq7duOvo0NEbmTLmMQMVQ2en4RcmcEJkjJHeEsSaPgq2wS8hKtpPH7VPhi)

## HIGH SCHOOL

Romeo and Juliet Has No Balcony

[View Lesson](http://learn.thinkcerca.com/content/lessons/ARP_Core_RomeoandJulietHasNoBalcony_G9-12?utm_campaign=No%20campaign&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_HwJTk53IcNySq7duOvo0NEbmTLmMQMVQ2en4RcmcEJkjJHeEsSaPgq2wS8hKtpPH7VPhi)

 

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[See how it works](https://info.thinkcerca.com/e3t/Ctc/RE+113/chwFg04/VVZBTV3LkDKYN5Lh6WgcfBcPW6R-97G4J1dG2N4Rsyg53q3nJV1-WJV7CgDmhW70-jQY6c0FZ2W2G5jMW26pkJzW7qMmlM4vjKZBW1Z-Npn9ljCPXW44HnJ96KVRKkW4kHNp34rBfYgW8bxJv26zN5SkW824--v90_kWpW905-Rg8pJdMDVpt90t5cMZ9NN4pw9-vd4G8lW941ZgW51Z_8RW9fZpch4HLwM8VYYdlJ7SZH1-W3-j1sb5t6TsSW42X_qF7ZdRW5W17lg1j5YspCCW7mwG-v5fHTnhW69rqVf2tZbkbW4MlyHJ8BxSRHW97qs3s4mQH1nW448Kv035RfwBN5k_glMW32X8W7yjv5D4P-VR332zg1).

 

#### ELEMENTARY

Why is William Shakespeare's work still taught and performed today?

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#### MIDDLE

How does "A Midsummer Night's Dream" use a magical setting to talk about real issues?

[Video Resource](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCI6o-kbqrs&utm_campaign=No%20campaign&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_HwJTk53IcNySq7duOvo0NEbmTLmMQMVQ2en4RcmcEJkjJHeEsSaPgq2wS8hKtpPH7VPhi)

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#### HIGH SCHOOL

Why are there questions about the true origins of Shakespeare's work?

[Video Resource](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-aAUwAFZlQ&t=81s&utm_campaign=No%20campaign&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_HwJTk53IcNySq7duOvo0NEbmTLmMQMVQ2en4RcmcEJkjJHeEsSaPgq2wS8hKtpPH7VPhi)

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# CERCA Slides

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# [Poetry About Ourselves](https://www.thinkcerca.com/cerca-slides-poetry-about-ourselves)

This set of Cerca Slides is underpinned by the key question, “How do writers use poetry to tell stories about their own lives?”

Students explore point of view, sensory details, and figurative language by analyzing autobiographical poems. Then, students write their own poems on topics ranging from influential figures in their lives to explorations of memory.

[CERCA Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hOq9XRpyCwQTH795IEpLJXcSa1G8bm0EGalKcsi6liU/edit?usp=sharing&utm_campaign=No%20campaign&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_HwJTk53IcNySq7duOvo0NEbmTLmMQMVQ2en4RcmcEJkjJHeEsSaPgq2wS8hKtpPH7VPhi)   [Student Guides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bKhdPCT91_kgX_O7YK8UZ8Bsl7WVyZ2zfwQqbUuzFXc/edit?utm_campaign=No%20campaign&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_HwJTk53IcNySq7duOvo0NEbmTLmMQMVQ2en4RcmcEJkjJHeEsSaPgq2wS8hKtpPH7VPhi#slide=id.gf5f579acfc_0_0)   [Pear Deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1e5nhvEVUit0xJ5NImzqgcNLeWnifoP3hpBswlBQOWfM/edit?usp=sharing&utm_campaign=No%20campaign&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_HwJTk53IcNySq7duOvo0NEbmTLmMQMVQ2en4RcmcEJkjJHeEsSaPgq2wS8hKtpPH7VPhi)

 

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