Prospero's Magic contains useful strategies to engage students in the reading and appreciation of literature so they will not only begin the reading of a tale, no matter how lengthy, but will also keep reading until its conclusion.

• Critical thinking games
• Discussion methods
• Student presentations and performances
• Individualized projects

Inside find detailed activities for teaching

• Beowulf
• The Canterbury Tales
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• Great Expectations
• Lord of the Flies
• Macbeth
• Mythology
• The Odyssey
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Tempest
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Short Stories and Poetry

All of these activities are adaptable to any other work of literature you teach.