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Teachers' Workshop with Actors' Shakespeare Project
August 10-14, 2009

Teachers - breathe life into Shakespeare with your students.  Whether you teach English, theater or history, teaching Shakespeare requires the text to be brought off the page and into the place it lives most urgently, the human body and voice.  Actors' Shakespeare Project's immediate and energized approach includes immersive workshops in text, movement, voice, acting and directing led by artist teachers from the ASP.  As teacher access these plays as actors do, the work yields an experience and understanding of the plays, a set of tools for working with Shakespeare's language, and a wealth of activities for use in the classroom.  During the institute, teachers pull these ideas together through facilitated sessions and design new lesson plans for teaching Shakespeare.

Participant Feedback from Past ASP Institutes

"I loved the entire program.  I felt that it opened my teaching up with new tools and was an incredible gift."  -2008 Participant

"The ASP institute gave me not only lesson plans but also ways to use movement, character and the relationships between characters with students through activing.  I loved this."  -2006 Participant    

Meeting Dates & Times

Course Institute
Monday, Aug. 10 - Friday, Aug. 14
8:30am - 4:30pm

Reconvene Session: TBA

Institute Components

• Acting, movement, voice and text classes with ASP teaching artists.
• Scene study and coaching.
• Discussions and lectures with scholars.
• Guest artist visits from ASP's "Dream" production team.
• Lesson plan development for your classroom with curriculum specialist.

Faculty (Tentative)

Sarah Hinkler, Guest Artist
Jennie Isreal, ASP Associate Artistic Director
Ben Evett, ASP Artistic Director
David Evett, ASP Scholar in Residence
Lori Shaller, Curriculum Specialist
And special guest artists.

Registration

3 Graduate Credit Option
Course information is ENG 758, Section 91, # 1962
Cost is $975

• Registration information for graduate credit option

Workshop and Reconvene Only (54 PDPs)
Course information is 9ENG 758, Section SP 91, # 2226
Cost is $775
Participants will complete a lesson plan.

• Download registration form for workshop and reconvene only

For further registration information please contact Pamela Poppe at ppoppe@salemstate.edu.