Folger Education is coming back to the NCTE Annual Convention! We’ll be in Boston from November 21-24 and we’re looking forward to connecting with amazing teachers from across the country.
At this year’s Annual Convention, we’ll be introducing the first three of five total Folger Guides to Teaching Shakespeare, a brand-new series of books packed with the latest scholarship, 5 weeks of lessons crafted by Folger Mentor Teachers, and essays around teaching students with IEPs and 504s, teaching English Language Learners, and pairing texts with Shakespeare.
The Folger Guide to Teaching Hamlet, The Folger Guide to Teaching Macbeth, and The Folger Guide to Teaching Romeo and Juliet will make their grand debut at this year’s conference.
We (along with some of our fabulous mentor teachers) will be leading panels and workshops on the Folger Method. Join us for a session – we’d love to see you there!
W.18 — Shakespeare and Way Beyond: Actively Empowering Students with Language and Literature
With Deborah Gascon, Dutch Fork High School, Irmo, SC, Liz Dixon, West Lafayette High School, West Lafayette, Indiana – and special guests from a local Middle School!
On Thursday, November 21st from 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Join us for a workshop on experiencing the Folger Method, a scaffolded sequence of strategies that puts students directly inside the language and issues of complex texts. Teachers will be on their feet, speaking the words of authors, and connecting with the characters and ideas in Shakespeare and other complex texts in just the way they will with students.
Teaching Shakespeare Is Teaching Race: Courageous Conversations through the Bard
With Noelle Cammon, Heritage High School in Menifee, California and David Fulco, Laboratory School of Finance and Technology in the Bronx, New York.
On Saturday, November 23rd from 1:15 pm-2:30 pm
Join us for a panel session around using Shakespeare’s language and the Folger Shakespeare method of tackling texts, teachers will leave the session with lessons that they can use in class TOMORROW, strategies they can implement with any text (not just Shakespeare), and tools necessary to facilitate effective and authentic discussions with students.
Macbeth and Frederick Douglass? Troy Maxon and Lord Capulet? Pairing Texts for Maximum Learning
With Donna Denizé, St. Albans School in Washington, DC, Peggy O’Brien, Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, and Stefanie Jochman, Flint Hill School, Oakton, Virginia
On Saturday, November 23rd from 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Join us for a panel session on exploring the power and possibility of pairing texts in the classroom with Stefanie Jochman, Donna Denizé and the Folger Shakespeare Library. This session will show you how to set up a classroom where students can make discoveries about the world and themselves through paired texts from across the sweep of history.