Shakespeare Bring on the Bard Active Drama Approaches for Shakespeare’s Diverse Student Readers Kevin Long and Mary T. Christel As Shakespeare remains a staple of English language arts curricula, evolving standards challenge teachers to put students—not a text—at the center of a reading experience in order to support diverse readers and learners. Active drama approaches position students to engage with a rich text through lowrisk speaking and improvisation activities as a part of any ELA classroom. The Folio Technique builds on those activities and introduces students to the clues Shakespeare built into his text that allow actors to efficiently understand their characters’ text, context, and subtext. Teachers can use excerpts from the First Folio of 1623 along with a mass market paperback or digital edition of a play to get closer to Shakespeare’s intentions and to explore the challenges the Bard’s modern editors face. This text offers suggestions for using parallel text, graphic, and abridged editions of Shakespeare’s works as well as activities using “cue scripts” and a variety of viewing experiences. 244 pp. | 2019 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814103821 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814103838
Reading Shakespeare Film First Mary Ellen Dakin Foreword by Alan B. Teasley Mary Ellen Dakin asserts that we need to read Shakespeare in triplicate—as the stuff of transformative literature, theater, and film. She guides teachers and students with carefully researched and classroomtested strategies for crossing over from Shakespeare’s early modern English to modern film and illustrated productions of his plays. Through a wealth of classroom vignettes, lessons, and handouts, we see how the “old” language of Shakespeare is constantly renewed through the “new” language of film. 179 pp. | 2012 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814139073 $27.96 member/$34.99 nonmember ebook: ISBN 9780814139080
Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults Mary Ellen Dakin Although the works of William Shakespeare are universally taught in high schools, many students have a similar reaction when confronted with the difficult task of reading Shakespeare for the first time. In Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults, Mary Ellen Dakin seeks to help teachers better understand not just how to teach the Bard’s work, but also why. By celebrating the collaborative reading of Shakespeare’s plays, Dakin explores different methods for getting students engaged in—and excited about—the texts as they learn to construct meaning from Shakespeare’s sixteenth-century language and connect it to their twenty-first-century lives. Filled with teacher-tested classroom activities, this book draws on often-taught plays, including Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 233 pp. | 2009 | Grades 9–12 | ISBN 9780814139042 $30.36 member/$37.99 nonmember
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