April has been a delightful month for us as we celebrate Shakespeare's 450th birthday!
Here are some ways you can celebrate with us digitally:
--> Explore all 38 of Shakespeare's plays online in a (free!) searchable, mobile-friendly format at folgerdigitaltexts.org
--> Take advantage of a special deal for the Folger Luminary Shakespeare apps (see details below). | | |
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| Peggy O'Brien, director of Folger Education, shares what's been going on at the Folger these past six weeks: hundreds of high school students performing on the Folger stage, families celebrating Shakespeare's birthday at the Folger's annual open house, sorting through a stack of applications for the Teaching Shakespeare Institute this summer, and more. It's all part of keeping the fire of Shakespeare alive. Who first lit the spark for you? | | |
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| To celebrate Shakespeare's 450th birthday, we're offering the Folger Luminary Shakespeare apps for $2.99 each, through Apr 27. Use these apps to go deeper into five of Shakespeare's most well-known plays, whether you're preparing to teach them for the first time, or whether you're looking for fresh insights into a familiar text. | | |
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After an exhilarating mass reading of the Romeo and Juliet balcony scene during the Folger's Apr 6 birthday bash for the Bard, we're inviting teachers to recreate the scene with their students and submit a video. We provide the script, which takes about 3.5 minutes to perform, and some directions on how to stage the scene. Are you up to the challenge?
Send in your videos by Apr 30! | | |
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| "How often have you found a great idea at a conference or in a journal, and then presented it at a department meeting only to have it greeted with smiles and nods and subsequently ignored?" Veteran New York teacher Josh Cabat not only offers insightful encouragement in the face of resistance, but also outlines some very practical solutions--addressing ownership, technology, and professional development along the way. | | |
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| The Folger Shakespeare Library and the English-Speaking Union are partnering to offer 2-day Teaching Intensives around the country this summer, focused on how to teach Romeo and Juliet. Michael Klein shares an account of his experience with these workshops and why he found them so invaluable. "It was two days of learning how we can make Shakespeare far less intimidating and far more fun in our classrooms every time we pass out a text to our students," he writes. | | |
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