Wouldn't this be fun to use with Shakespeare? Especially if you are doing Shakespeare "out loud."
Showing posts with label Shakespeare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shakespeare. Show all posts
Visiting with the Reduced Shakespeare Company
The Chicago Tribune interviews Reed Martin, the founding member of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, an internationally-known comedy troupe which is opening two shows at Chicago's Royal George Theatre.
RSC : The Othello Rap
The Reduced Shakespeare Company presents The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged. The Othello Rap
Is That Your Sandwich?
Learn how to use performance-based teaching with your students to introduce text and subtext, and prepare them for reading Shakespeare.
Tableaux Vivants
Introduce text and imagery to your students with this short, adaptable, and creative classroom exercise. For grades 3 and up. From Folger Shakespeare Library, the world's largest collection of Shakespearean materials and a national leader in how Shakespeare is taught.
Occupation Romeo
Kids get an introduction to character and delivery with "Occupation Romeo." Suitable for grades 3 and up. From the Folger Shakespeare Library, the world's largest collection of Shakespearean materials and a national leader in how Shakespeare is taught.
Living Iambic Pentameter
A short, humorous introduction to iambic pentameter using sound and motion. Appropriate for grades 3 and up. From Folger Shakespeare Library, the world's largest collection of Shakespearean materials and a national leader in how Shakespeare is taught.
Remixing Shakespeare
Christopher Shamburg shows you step-by-step how to create original audio dramas with your students using scenes from Shakespeare. "If you can use a word-processing program and a tape recorder, you have 90 percent of the technical skills to create a remix," promises Shamburg.
Remixing Shakespeare engages students in time-honored techniques for understanding literarary text through free and legal use of current technology.
Remixing Shakespeare engages students in time-honored techniques for understanding literarary text through free and legal use of current technology.
Interpreting Character
A short scene—sometimes even a single line of text—can provide extraordinary insights into the major characters and themes of a play. Sue Biondo-Hench, a curriculum specialist (and alumna) of the Folger's Teaching Shakespeare Institute and an English teacher at Carlisle High School for 29 years, often starts off a new Shakespeare unit by having students explore character and motive using a key passage of text—sometimes just a single line.
"What makes Interpreting Character such a successful exercise," says Biondo-Hench, "is its multiple points of focus. Students explore a play-specific character, engage in performance-based methods for interpreting the text, and learn how Shakespeare's language allows for multiple meanings".
Interpreting Character uses scenes from Henry IV, Part 1 and centers on Prince Hal, but the exercise works equally well for any Shakespeare play—or any other play! Part of the Folger's Teaching Shakespeare series.
"What makes Interpreting Character such a successful exercise," says Biondo-Hench, "is its multiple points of focus. Students explore a play-specific character, engage in performance-based methods for interpreting the text, and learn how Shakespeare's language allows for multiple meanings".
Interpreting Character uses scenes from Henry IV, Part 1 and centers on Prince Hal, but the exercise works equally well for any Shakespeare play—or any other play! Part of the Folger's Teaching Shakespeare series.
Shakespeare's 29th Sonnet
SONNET 29
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Matthew Macfadyen reads the poem "Sonnet 29"
SONNET 29
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Silent Macbeth - 500 Clowns
This Chicago troupe, 500 Clown, does a bizarre silent MacBeth - search the web for more details, but you get the literal "power grab" theme from this trailer.
poem 10 things i hate about you
The Ten Things I Hate About You - This 1999 movie is a twist on Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. It could be used for teaching Shakespearean allusions, but the clip mainly focuses on a sonnet written by Kat, the movie’s “shrew.” The sonnet is a re-writing of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 141.” I use it to teach tone shift. Students first read the poem, and then they pick tone words to describe the attitude of the speaker. Students have to read closely to decide when the tone shifts in the poem. After reading the poem, students watch the clip. It is easy to recognize the tone shift in the clip because the students can see the speaker’s facial expressions and hear her voice. This clip useful for starting discussions on the difficulty of deciphering written tone vs spoken tone.
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