This article offers a guide to introduce Shakespeare's plays and his life. All it takes are five days in the library media center; some student handouts; plenty of resources, both print and online; some word processing software; plus a little patience and flexibility. Students complete a timeline, a paper and a cover sheet, all of which can be done during class time. The learning objectives are simple. They are expressed as quantifiable items that students can produce, or items that the teacher and librarian can observe during the course of the unit. (Contains 14 resources.)