On Tuesday we shared our lineup of Folger sessions at this year’s convention of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Today we’re blogging from the Minneapolis Convention Center, where we’re getting ready for tomorrow’s interactive sessions (join us!) and lots, lots more. Have we mentioned how much we love NCTE and this annual… Continue Reading »
Posts Categorized: Shakespeare
Heading to the NCTE Convention this week in Minneapolis? We hope you’ll connect with us there! Here’s how: Attend a session. Check out our full lineup of Friday sessions: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2015 Room 102ABC 9:30-10:45AM “The Folger Approach, Part 1: Getting Started with Shakespeare’s Language” Dr. Peggy O’Brien, Folger Glenda Funk, Highland (ID)… Continue Reading »
Next week, we’ll have the chance to connect with thousands of teaching colleagues at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Annual Convention in Minneapolis. (Check back here soon for the scoop on our conference sessions and teaching demos, exhibit hall booth, flash mob, and giveaways!) We hope to meet—or, in many cases, reconnect… Continue Reading »
Big news, teaching colleagues: We’ve got a new blog, and we heartily welcome you to it! Teaching Shakespeare! A Folger Education Blog brings you classroom ideas and reflections from colleagues across the country, along with all kinds of cool news from your friends at Folger Education. With the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016,… Continue Reading »
Join us tomorrow for Halloween fun, family, and Shakespeare. And candy. Lots of candy.
In ten short years as an educator, I have taught every grade from sixth through twelfth, and every level of ability from AP to self-contained special ed. I say this not to impress you with how many different preps I have tackled in ten years, but to highlight this fact: I teach Shakespeare to every… Continue Reading »
Ay, thou poor ghost, whiles memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I’ll wipe away all trivial, fond records, […] And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmixed with baser matter. (Hamlet 1.5.103-110) Last Thursday, October… Continue Reading »
Over the summer, the Rochester Community Players decided to try something we had never done before—put together a Shakespeare-specific summer youth program. Peter Scribner, president of the RCP’s Shakespeare Players, envisioned from the start a program that would have Rochester kids out doing Shakespeare, rather than passively reading the text. To implement this plan, he… Continue Reading »
By Folger Education Last week, the Folger hosted a book launch for our colleague James Shapiro’s The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606. Shapiro, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and member of the Folger Board of Governors, discussed how the tumultuous events in England in 1606 affected Shakespeare and shaped the… Continue Reading »
This summer I had the privilege of participating in the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Teaching Shakespeare Institute: Summer Academy. During this week-long intensive program, I was given multiple strategies for teaching Shakespeare’s Hamlet and other Shakespearean works. I learned that I should allow the students to perform scenes according to how they interpret the language…. Continue Reading »
