Shakespeare Set Free Workshops
Hosted by the Kingsmen Shakespeare Company and the CLU School of Education
A day-long workshop for teachers in elementary, middle, and high schools.
- Session 1: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm, Thursday, August 5, 2010, for elementary school teachers
- Session 2: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm, Friday, August 6, 2010, for middle and high school teachers
Each session held at California Lutheran Univesity and limited to 30 teachers.
Shakespeare Set Free Workshops offer an interdisciplinary, text-based, and performance-based approach to teaching Shakespeare to students of all abilities in grades 3 to 12.
Based on the innovative Shakespeare Set Free book series, the workshops also draw from the student festivals held for the past 25 years at the Folger Shakespeare Library, located in Washington, D.C., repository of the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's works.
The two tenets of Folger educational programs are:
- The study of Shakespeare is possible and rewarding for all students.
- The best way for students to understand Shakespeare is to engage with the texts by performing scenes from the plays.
The Folger has received raves from teachers who have completed the training workshop. They now incorporate the student-centered approach in their classrooms, creating festivals and other performance opportunities for their students.
Workshop Materials
Each participant receives a Shakespeare Set Free Toolkit. The Toolkit provides everything you need to get started teaching Shakespeare and can be used with any play, including: lesson plans, techniques for introducing Shakespeare's language, classroom activity ideas, DVD, and more.
Workshop Fee $115.00 - includes workshop, Set Free Toolkit, lunch and ticket to a performance of one of the Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival 2010 shows.