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We would like 28 copies of the book, King of Shadows by Susan Cooper. Combining No Fear Shakespeare, several graphic novel versions of Shakespeare's work, and King of Shadows will allow each student to hold their own copy and read along with the teacher and on their own or dive deeper into the works of the Bard. It will enable my students to see, hear, and acknowledge new vocabulary, therefore comprehending the material within the book. Especially, struggling readers, as well as ESL students with limited vocabulary. Students think Shakespeare is tough, which makes it very hard to get them interested in the Bard. However, Susan Cooper succeeds, in fewer than 200 exquisite pages, in introducing students to the Bard intimately as they travel through time with a narrator that is their age. They will learn about Shakespeare and the history of the period. Nat is a 12-year-old orphan who hides from his own brokenness by acting, mainly in Shakespeare plays and mainly well. Readers are introduced to the plays 鈥淎 Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream鈥 and 鈥淛ulius Caesar鈥 and the Globe Theater. Shortly after the story starts, Nat crosses that 400-year gap, waking up one morning to find himself in the Elizabethan era, expected to be Puck in 鈥淎 Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream鈥 with Will Shakespeare himself playing Puck鈥檚 master, Oberon. Anytime a student is read to, as well as reads along with someone, their sense of achievement soars. This in turn will change their lives hearing and reading what has happened to a child their own age. I have seen where children that have bullied others, changed their own actions due to reading this book.
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