Today we’re re-posting one of our favorite throwbacks: an incredibly thoughtful and intelligent meditation on language, identity, difference, and community—and a teaching idea getting at those big ideas, too. Thank you to Folger family member and high school English teacher Amber Phelps for sharing this powerful blog post with the world. “I don’t have to… Continue Reading »
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“I don’t have to condone it to understand it. The pain that people feel is real.” While most watched DeRay McKesson, Baltimore native and #blacklivesmatter activist, deliver these words in April 2015 (describing the unrest that occurred shortly after Freddie Gray’s funeral through the screens of their television), my students and I watched it… Continue Reading »
Months and months ago—sometime in June 2015—we asked all of you to give us a few suggestions about a couple of different topics. And you, busy teachers that you are, responded big-time to two questions in particular: What should we rename the blog then known as Making A Scene? What is a must-read… Continue Reading »
By Danielle Drakes “High School teachers, you are the keepers of the flame.” – Dr. Peggy O’Brien, Director of Education Earlier this month, the Folger Shakespeare Library collaborated with WQED’s August Wilson Project on a event sponsored by PNC Bank focused on teaching August Wilson and William Shakespeare right alongside. The… Continue Reading »
