Professional Development
Building Community in the Classroom with the Folger Method
Lessons from the Folger Guide to Teaching Othello
Lessons from the Folger Guide to Teaching Othello
Shakespeare is FOR Students with IEPs and 504s
Engaging All Students Across the Humanities
Engaging All Students Across the Humanities
Juicy Hamlet Lessons from the Creators of The Folger Guide to Teaching Hamlet 5-Week Unit
Juicy Hamlet Lessons from the Creators of The Folger Guide to Teaching Hamlet 5-Week Unit
Fill Your Cauldron: Spooky Treats from Macbeth
Ditch Your Syllabus For One Period!
Instead:
Your Students Put Down Their Phones As You Preview Your Year of Literature Together!
Ditch Your Syllabus For One Period!
Instead:
Your Students Put Down Their Phones As You Preview Your Year of Literature Together!
Instead:
Your Students Put Down Their Phones As You Preview Your Year of Literature Together!
Explore Shakespeare’s World: One more diverse, compelling, and surprising than we thought!
Explore Shakespeare’s World: One more diverse, compelling, and surprising than we thought!
Cutting and Performing Scenes – Put Students in the Driver’s Seat!
Cutting and Performing Scenes – Put Students in the Driver’s Seat!
Pairing Texts Across Time, Place, and Experience
Pairing Texts Across Time, Place, and Experience
Exploring Race & Whiteness in Shakespeare
Exploring Race & Whiteness in Shakespeare
Exploring Gender: Shakespeare’s Take on Chaste, Silent, and Obedient
Exploring Gender: Shakespeare’s Take on Chaste, Silent, and Obedient
Shakespeare and the Immigrant Experience
Shakespeare and the Immigrant Experience
Two Juicy, Interactive Lessons for Your Next Class!
Two Juicy, Interactive Lessons for Your Next Class!
Sonnets & Social Justice
Sonnets & Social Justice
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 3 Ways: Through Scholarship, On Stage, and In Your Classroom
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 3 Ways: Through Scholarship, On Stage, and In Your Classroom
THE FOLGER METHOD IN ONE FELL SWOOP: Teach Shakespeare and Any Complex Text Using These Principles and Practices Effective for All Students
THE FOLGER METHOD IN ONE FELL SWOOP: Teach Shakespeare and Any Complex Text Using These Principles and Practices Effective for All Students
Navigating Race and Difference: In Shakespeare, In Class, and Elsewhere
Navigating Race and Difference: In Shakespeare, In Class, and Elsewhere
William Shakespeare and Gwendolyn Brooks: Processing Death
William Shakespeare and Gwendolyn Brooks: Processing Death
March Lesson of the Month: Pairing Clint Smith’s “My Hopes, Dreams, Fears for My Future Son” with Hamlet
March Lesson of the Month: Pairing Clint Smith’s “My Hopes, Dreams, Fears for My Future Son” with Hamlet
“Officers and Torches: Race and the Editing of Othello” with Patricia Akhimie
“Officers and Torches: Race and the Editing of Othello” with Patricia Akhimie
Race and U.S. Education: Historical Perspectives
Race and U.S. Education: Historical Perspectives
Free resource
The Two New Paths: Censorship, Reclamation–What is Our Argument? with Jocelyn Chadwick
The Two New Paths: Censorship, Reclamation–What is Our Argument? with Jocelyn Chadwick
Sneak Peek! Lessons from the Forthcoming Folger Guide to Teaching Hamlet.
Sneak Peek! Lessons from the Forthcoming Folger Guide to Teaching Hamlet.
“Jamestown: A Shakesperien Tragedy” with Mark Summers
“Jamestown: A Shakesperien Tragedy” with Mark Summers
Reading Fred Wilson’s Art Alongside Shakespeare’s Words: Folger + Smithsonian American Art Museum
Reading Fred Wilson’s Art Alongside Shakespeare’s Words: Folger + Smithsonian American Art Museum
Unapologetically Black Shakespeare: Core Lessons from Folger & Reconstruction.us
Unapologetically Black Shakespeare: Core Lessons from Folger & Reconstruction.us
This Illness is No Metaphor: Romeo and Juliet and the Plague
This Illness is No Metaphor: Romeo and Juliet and the Plague
Teaching Shakespeare Is Teaching Race 2021: A Virtual Folger Workshop for Teachers – The Online Archive of Program Videos, Slides, and Materials
Teaching Shakespeare Is Teaching Race 2021: A Virtual Folger Workshop for Teachers – The Online Archive of Program Videos, Slides, and Materials
Teaching Shakespeare Is Teaching Race. It is?
Teaching Shakespeare Is Teaching Race. It is?
Teaching Shakespeare Is Teaching Race
Teaching Shakespeare Is Teaching Race
Teaching Shakespeare Institute 2021: Shakespeare and the Making of America
Teaching Shakespeare Institute 2021: Shakespeare and the Making of America
ALL Students Deserve the Real Thing: Teaching Shakespeare to English-Language Learners
ALL Students Deserve the Real Thing: Teaching Shakespeare to English-Language Learners
Macbeth Without Ambition with Dr. Adam Zucker
Macbeth Without Ambition with Dr. Adam Zucker
Free resource
Speaking and Writing with Shakespeare at the Heart, a Smithsonian American Art Museum + Folger Library Workshop
Speaking and Writing with Shakespeare at the Heart, a Smithsonian American Art Museum + Folger Library Workshop
Shakespeare to Malcolm X: Helping ALL Students Grapple with Race and Complex Texts
Shakespeare to Malcolm X: Helping ALL Students Grapple with Race and Complex Texts
Juicy Lesson! Creating a Promptbook for Poet X (or ANY novel!)
Juicy Lesson! Creating a Promptbook for Poet X (or ANY novel!)
Here’s to Black Women Poets, Part II. May We Know Them. May We Read Them. May We Teach Them.
Here’s to Black Women Poets, Part II. May We Know Them. May We Read Them. May We Teach Them.
“Race, Racism, and the Shaping of Shakespeare” with Dr. Ruben Espinosa
“Race, Racism, and the Shaping of Shakespeare” with Dr. Ruben Espinosa
Free resource
What Says She? Listening to Women’s Voices in Shakespeare with Dr. Kathryn Vomero Santos
What Says She? Listening to Women’s Voices in Shakespeare with Dr. Kathryn Vomero Santos
Here’s to Black Women Poets. May We Know Them. May We Read Them. May We Teach Them.
Here’s to Black Women Poets. May We Know Them. May We Read Them. May We Teach Them.
Juicy Lesson! Pre-reading: A 20-minute Hamlet
Juicy Lesson! Pre-reading: A 20-minute Hamlet
Free resource
Juicy Lesson! Words as Images with Twelfth Night
Juicy Lesson! Words as Images with Twelfth Night
The Key to Getting ALL Students Understanding and Interpreting Complex Texts
The Key to Getting ALL Students Understanding and Interpreting Complex Texts
Free resource
Juicy Lesson! Choral Reading Dr. King’s I Have A Dream speech
Juicy Lesson! Choral Reading Dr. King’s I Have A Dream speech
Free resource
The Folger Method Online: How to Teach ANY Play Fast and with Rigor!
The Folger Method Online: How to Teach ANY Play Fast and with Rigor!
Free resource
Taking the Folger Method Online to Teach ANY Text and Get Students to Turn On Their Cameras!
Taking the Folger Method Online to Teach ANY Text and Get Students to Turn On Their Cameras!
Trailblazing Women Poets You’re Probably Not Teaching—And Practical Strategies for Teaching Them Now
Trailblazing Women Poets You’re Probably Not Teaching—And Practical Strategies for Teaching Them Now
Folger Community Conversation: Teaching Literature During COVID-19
Folger Community Conversation: Teaching Literature During COVID-19
Juicy Lesson! Paired Texts: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing 2.1
Juicy Lesson! Paired Texts: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing 2.1
The Ultimate Resource: The Folger Shakespeare
The Ultimate Resource: The Folger Shakespeare
Juicy Lesson! The Monologue Project
Juicy Lesson! The Monologue Project
Juicy Lesson! Choral Reading Imtiaz Dharker’s “The Trick” and Shakespeare’s Sonnet 43
Juicy Lesson! Choral Reading Imtiaz Dharker’s “The Trick” and Shakespeare’s Sonnet 43
Equitable, Engaging and Subversive Teaching with the Folger Method
Equitable, Engaging and Subversive Teaching with the Folger Method
Shakespeare Sonnets in the Classroom
Shakespeare Sonnets in the Classroom
Free resource
Master Class: Teaching Romeo and Juliet
Master Class: Teaching Romeo and Juliet
Directing Julius Caesar: An Interview with Michael Tolaydo
Directing Julius Caesar: An Interview with Michael Tolaydo
Building Empathy in the Literature Classroom
Building Empathy in the Literature Classroom
Teach Their Eyes Were Watching God with Rigor and Joy
Teach Their Eyes Were Watching God with Rigor and Joy
Getting All Students Inside Tough Speeches
Getting All Students Inside Tough Speeches
Abraham Lincoln, Macbeth, and Julius Caesar, 1865
Abraham Lincoln, Macbeth, and Julius Caesar, 1865
Master Class: Teaching Hamlet
Master Class: Teaching Hamlet
Folger Revealed
Folger Revealed
Directing Shakespeare: An Interview with Rosa Joshi
Directing Shakespeare: An Interview with Rosa Joshi
Master Class: Teaching Othello
Master Class: Teaching Othello
Master Class: Teaching Julius Caesar
Master Class: Teaching Julius Caesar
What to Do–and What Not to Do–in Week One of a Successful Shakespeare Unit