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Connecting Students to Literature using Analogy Strategies  **What is an analogy strategy?**  According to dictionary.com, analogy is defined as "a similarity between like features of two things." An analogy strategy within the context of teaching English literature would be taking the similarities between a text and the students' lives and using that connection to help students better understand the text.  ** Why Shakespeare? ** Our group chose to use analogy strategies to teach Shakespeare because most of our students don't exactly look forward to reading Shakespeare every year. We have all heard complaints about how they don't understand the language and can't possibly relate to what is going on, it happend //forever// ago! All of these things, alone and especially in combination, can be very intimidating and even alienating for students. Our approach to this project is to use analogy strategies through process drama to help these students relate what is going on in their lives to what happened in Shakespeare's time. More specifically, how we can get our students to understand and relate to //Romeo and Juliet.//

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