NOTICE: This is an older course recorded with Adobe Connect and/or Vimeo recordings. We are currently working to replace the recordings with new Zoom recordings. Please don't hesitate to email us at homeschoolconnections@gmail.
How to get the most out of The Tragedies of Shakespeare: Othello With Kevin O’Brien:
- Watch each Recorded class session.
- Complete all quizzes and assignments. Parents can grade any essay questions, or they may purchase Instructor Access for Kevin O'Brien to grade the essay questions.
- The reading for each week can be found in that week's module.
- Repeat for each until the course is completed.
- Once the course is completed to the parent's satisfaction, there is a Certificate of Completion at the end to be filled in for your records. Homeschool Connections does not provide record keeping.
Total Classes: 6
Duration: 55 minutes
Prerequisite: None
Suggested Grade Level: 9th to 12th grade
Suggested Credit: 1/2 semester Literature, Shakespearean Literature, or English.
Instructor: Kevin O’Brien
Instructor Email: kevin@classeswithkevin.
Course Description: Othello is one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. It not only deals with the great mystery of love and jealousy - but the question of manipulation, control, and power. In studying Othello we learn about the Machiavellian techniques of Iago that assail us even today in media and politics. But we also learn the workings of the human heart - and how Othello’s great challenge is to learn to love, a task that confronts each of us, Christians in particular.
Course Outline:
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Introduction
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Act One
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Act Two
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Act Three
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Act Four
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Act Five and Conclusion
Course Materials: Othello, any notated edition. No Fear Shakespeare is a good online resource for the text and a helpful side-by-side modern paraphrase.
If you have any questions please contact us at homeschoolconnections@gmail.com.
- Teacher: Kevin OBrien