Lessons from Shakespeare’s Classroom

Lessons from Shakespeare’s Classroom

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  • Author: Robin Lithgow
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1000830136
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 247

This volume explores the relationship between the emphasis on performance in Elizabethan humanist education and the flourishing of literary brilliance around the turn of the sixteenth century. This study asks us what lessons we can learn today from Shakespeare’s Latin grammar school. What were the cognitive benefits of an education so deeply rooted in what Demosthenes and Quintilian called "actio"—acting? Because of the vast difference between educational practice then and now, we have not often followed one essential thread: the focus on performance. This study examines the connections relevant to the education offered in schools today. This book will be of great interest to teachers, scholars, and administrators in performing arts and education.


How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare

How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare

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  • Author: Ken Ludwig
  • Publisher: Crown
  • ISBN: 0307951499
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 369

Outlines an engaging way to instill an understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's classic works in children, outlining a family-friendly method that incorporates the history of Shakespearean theater and society.


Teaching Shakespeare

Teaching Shakespeare

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  • Author: Rex Gibson
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1316609871
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 238

An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design.


How to Think Like Shakespeare

How to Think Like Shakespeare

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  • Author: Scott Newstok
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • ISBN: 0691227691
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 206

"This book offers a short, spirited defense of rhetoric and the liberal arts as catalysts for precision, invention, and empathy in today's world. The author, a professor of Shakespeare studies at a liberal arts college and a parent of school-age children, argues that high-stakes testing and a culture of assessment have altered how and what students are taught, as courses across the arts, humanities, and sciences increasingly are set aside to make room for joyless, mechanical reading and math instruction. Students have been robbed of a complete education, their imaginations stunted by this myopic focus on bare literacy and numeracy. Education is about thinking, Newstok argues, rather than the mastery of a set of rigidly defined skills, and the seemingly rigid pedagogy of the English Renaissance produced some of the most compelling and influential examples of liberated thinking. Each of the fourteen chapters explores an essential element of Shakespeare's world and work, aligns it with the ideas of other thinkers and writers in modern times, and suggests opportunities for further reading. Chapters on craft, technology, attention, freedom, and related topics combine past and present ideas about education to build a case for the value of the past, the pleasure of thinking, and the limitations of modern educational practices and prejudices"--


The RSC Shakespeare Toolkit for Primary Teachers

The RSC Shakespeare Toolkit for Primary Teachers

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  • Author: Royal Shakespeare Company
  • Publisher: A&C Black
  • ISBN: 1472585194
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 304

Developed by one of the world's leading theatre companies, this fantastic resource offers teachers a practical, drama-based approach to teaching and appreciating three of Shakespeare's most popular plays: Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. The toolkit brings the plays alive as performance pieces, with Primary pupils undertaking drama-based explorations of the text that take them through much of the play. Teachers' notes and accompanying photocopiable worksheets offer a lesson-by-lesson teaching route through each of the three plays in turn. The schemes of work offer teachers a route through each play that has been designed to be flexible and to bolt on to what they already teach. The schemes comprise a series of lessons that can either be followed in their entirety as a stand-alone scheme of work or which can be dipped into by teachers wanting to augment their existing schemes of work.


Teaching Twelfth Night and Othello

Teaching Twelfth Night and Othello

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  • Author: Peggy O'Brien
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 0743288513
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 244

FOLGER Shakespeare Library THE WORLD'S LEADING CENTER FOR SHAKESPEARE STUDIES The Folger Shakespeare Library is one of the world's leading centers for scholarship, learning, and culture. The Folger is dedicated to advancing knowledge and increasing understanding of Shakespeare and the early modern period; it is home to the world's largest Shakespeare collection and one of the leading collections of books and materials of the entire early modern period (1500-1750). Combining a worldclass research library and scholarly programs; leadership in curriculum, training, and publishing for K-12 education; and award-winning performing arts, exhibitions, and lectures, the Folger is Shakespeare's home in America. This volume of the Shakespeare Set Free series is written by institute faculty and participants, and includes the latest developments in recent scholarship. It bristles with the energy created by teaching and learning Shakespeare from the text and through active performance, and reflects the experience, wisdom, and wit of real classroom teachers in schools and colleges throughout the United States. In this book, you'll find the following: Clearly written essays by leading scholars to refresh teachers and challenge older students Effective and accessible techniques for teaching Shakespeare through performance and engaging students in Shakespeare's language and plays Day-by-day teaching strategies for Twelfth Night and Othello that successfully and energetically immerse students of every grade and skill level in the language and in the plays themselves -- created, taught, and written by real teachers


The Folger Library

The Folger Library

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  • Author: Folger Shakespeare Library
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Libraries
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 68


Shakespeare in the Spotlight

Shakespeare in the Spotlight

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  • Author: William Shakespeare
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 48


Teaching Julius Caesar

Teaching Julius Caesar

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  • Author: Lyn Fairchild Hawks
  • Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte)
  • ISBN:
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 244

Julius Caesar, with its themes of loyalty, ambition, and deception, still resonates with high school students and remains a favorite text in classrooms everywhere. Through differentiated instruction, Lyn Fairchild Hawks offers solutions for bringing the play to life for all students--those with various interests, readiness levels, and learning styles. She offers practical, engaging, and rigorous lessons for teaching reading, writing, speaking, performance, and research that can be used as-is or can be adapted to suit the needs of your students and classroom environment. This book is a comprehensive curriculum for teaching the play and offers lesson plans highlighting key scenes; mini-lessons for reading and writing; performance activities; close reading assignments for ELL, novice, on-target, and advanced learners; and quizzes, writing assignments, and compacting guidelines.


Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

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  • Author: R. Brigham Lampert
  • Publisher: PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
  • ISBN: 159363322X
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 225

Part of Prufrock's new series for the upper level classroom, Advanced Placement Classroom: Romeo and Juliet is a user-friendly guide to teaching one of Shakespeare's classic plays. Featuring more than 50 reproducible pages to supplement student projects, debates, and writings, this guide teaches students to consider new perspectives on the traditional tale. Teachers can implement day-to-day study of the play with intriguing journal prompts, introduce challenging critical thinking with lessons that put Juliet's nurse and Friar Lawrence on mock trial for their role in bringing together the lovers, and much more. Prufrock's new line of innovative teaching guides is designed to engage students with creative learning activities that ensure Advanced Placement success. The Teaching Success Guide for the Advanced Placement Classroom series helps teachers motivate students above and beyond the norm by introducing investigative, hands-on activities including debates, role-plays, experiments, projects, and more, all based on Advanced Placement and college-level standards for learning. Grades 7-12