Digital Image Collection Launches
Our new Digital Image Collection offers online access to over 21,000 images from the Folger Shakespeare Library collection, including books, theater memorabilia, manuscripts, art, and more. Images are available in high resolution and users can show multiple images side-by-side, zoom in and out to see fine detail, view cataloging information when available, export thumbnails, and construct permanent URLs linking back to their favorite items or searches.
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| Welcome K-12 Teachers! |
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Teaching Shakespeare Lesson Plans
Download this month's new Shakespeare lesson plans for your classroom.
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Primary Sources
Open a window into the past by examining documents, pictures, and maps from Shakespeare's time.
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Programs for Teachers and Students
Learn about matinees, seminars, workshops, and special outreach opportunities.
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Teacher Workshops
Find out about interactive workshops especially for teachers, across the country or right here at the Folger.
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Teacher's Lounge
Trade teaching ideas and post questions at our forum for teachers.
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Study Guides
Each guide includes a plot synopsis, interactive activities, and discussion questions.
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| Shakespeare's Birthday Sonnet Contest |
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Calling all young Bards! Students in grades 3 through 12 in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia are invited to submit original sonnets for the annual Shakespeare’s Birthday Sonnet Contest. Winning entries will be read at the Folger's 2009 Shakespeare’s Birthday Open House on Sunday, April 26.
Sonnets may be written on any subject and in any voice, but must follow Shakespearean sonnet form: 14 lines of iambic pentameter with an ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme.
An additional competition for best sonnet on a fashion theme reflects this year’s special birthday displays and demonstrations of Elizabethan fashion. Sonnets may reflect sentiments about clothing or fashion and may also explore figurative aspects of human nature, such as “wearing one’s heart on one’s sleeve” or how people can wear moods, triumphs, and other characteristics of the human experience.
The deadline for submissions is Friday, April 3.
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