Hamlet Teaching Unit with Immersive Classroom Game | Senior English

Teach Hamlet with this comprehensive 10 week teaching unit designed for Years 11–12 English. This resource supports deep exploration of revenge, power, madness, morality, appearance vs reality, and action versus inaction, while developing students’ analytical and essay-writing skills.

The unit includes a structured teaching sequence with classroom activities, contextual support, and an immersive whole-class game that helps students actively engage with the play’s key concepts rather than plot alone. With a strong focus on Shakespearean language and dramatic techniques, this low-prep pack is ideal for senior English classrooms.

What’s Included:

• Social and historical context, including Elizabethan beliefs, revenge tragedy, and the Great Chain of Being
• A structured 10 week teaching sequence with classroom activities
• An immersive whole-class game exploring power, conscience, surveillance, and moral choice
• Analysis of key themes and characters
• Language, dramatic, and stylistic feature analysis
• Exemplar analytical paragraphs
• Student handout infographics
• Analysis through critical lenses

Classroom ready for presentation, printing and digital learning platforms.

The files are provided as PDFs for flexibility as teachers use different formats in their classrooms. You can:
Convert to PowerPoint: Upload the PDF to PowerPoint (File → Open) and it will automatically convert to slides.
Use in Google Slides: Upload the PDF to Google Drive, right-click, and open with Google Slides.
Use digitally or print: Upload the PDF to your LMS (Google Classroom, Canvas, etc.) or print it for handouts.
You could also use Canva to upload the pdf and convert and save as a PowerPoint.