Students will apply a helpful note-taking strategy to summarize and dissect passages from Othello.
Students will examine Iago's motives for destroying Othello using a graphic organizer and finding textual evidence.
Students will identify instances of foreshadowing and link them to important events in the play.
Students will answer questions about the beginning and ending of Othello to uncover the ways in which the structure affects the play.
Students will explore how dramatic, verbal, and situational irony affect the play’s meaning and the audience’s experience with the story.
Students will categorize Shakespearean vocabulary related to love to identify literal and figurative language used in the play.
This handout unpacks literal and figurative meanings of ethnic and racial terms to help students deepen their understanding of the text.