{"id":749,"date":"2013-02-26T18:15:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T02:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareis.com\/home-2\/?p=749"},"modified":"2014-03-25T19:41:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T19:41:50","slug":"bob-young-folger-library-on-teaching-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/media\/bob-young-folger-library-on-teaching-shakespeare\/","title":{"rendered":"Director of Education Robert Young, The Folger Shakespeare Library- Teaching Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/60615697?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Robert Young: We ask teachers from around the country who have participated in our workshops to send us some of their favorite <!--more-->lines, lines that they think would be engaging for students. We got a couple of hundred of them.<\/p>\n<p>We selected forty, we put them on laminated cards, put in our tool kit. We give each student a line, they walk around the room just saying the line out loud so nobody is really hearing them individually, so they can make mistakes with pronunciation, it doesn&#8217;t really matter. And then at some point we say, &#8220;Freeze.&#8221; The person closest to them becomes their scene partner. They use those two lines and create a scene. They can use anything in the room as props. And then we just run through those scenes. They&#8217;re having fun.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it comes out really bizarrely, sometimes it&#8217;s really touching, sometimes it&#8217;s very funny, but they have just spoken Shakespeare&#8217;s language, nobody has told them whether it&#8217;s right or wrong, they&#8217;ve created a situation, they&#8217;ve delivered the scene, and then we talk about it. And they&#8217;ve done Shakespeare. They&#8217;ve had the language in their mouths, they&#8217;ve spoken it. It&#8217;s no longer frightening to them, it&#8217;s no longer disconcerting that people are going to look at them or think they&#8217;re not very smart because they can&#8217;t make any sense of it. And they&#8217;ve just done it.<\/p>\n<p>And often when teachers take lines from the play they&#8217;re going to be doing with students and later they hear those lines, or they speak those lines \u2013 &#8220;Oh, I remember when Bob did that line. He did it a really different way.&#8221; And now you start about comparing and contrasting. You know, analyzing, critically looking at the language. What does it really mean?<\/p>\n<p>So I think those kinds of activities \u2013 putting the plays on their feet for students, getting them to engage in it \u2013 is the best way to do it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/60615697\">Director of Education Robert Young, The Folger Shakespeare Library- Teaching Shakespeare<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/cultureworks\">CultureWorks<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Young: We ask teachers from around the country who have participated in our workshops to send us some of their favorite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31,2,19,21,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob-young","category-educators","category-interviews","category-language","category-people","category-teaching-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/1128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/media\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakespearecentral.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}