Stuck in a Soliloquy? Impactful Ways to Tackle Tough Passages
Professional development from Folger Education
Booking and details
Register nowDates Wed, Mar 26, 2025, 8pm
Venue Virtual - Zoom
Tickets Free; registration required
Duration 8pm - 9pm (ET)
Teachers, join us as we explore soliloquies and ways to get your students to dive in deep to the language.
- Choral Reading to immerse your students in the language from the jump. Yes, it’s sneaky close reading, but it’s also a way of giving your students a powerful shared experience. You’ll explore the “balcony scene” from Romeo and Juliet, bringing Shakespeare’s language to life in a dynamic and engaging way.
- Use Folger Method Essential Practices like Cutting the Text and Tone and Stress to not just unpack but upend how your students feel about Hamlet. We’ll dig into two big speeches and leave with new ways of looking at the play.
- Empowering your students to make their own choices with the Folger Method. You’ll walk away with different strategies to tackle Shakespeare or any complex text in class tomorrow with your students. This session will be the jolt to get you through this spring!
Mentor Teacher
Dr. Deborah Gascon
Dr. Deborah Gascon is a National Board Certified teacher who teaches English and Journalism in Columbia, SC. She also taught English in Romania on a Fulbright Teacher Exchange. Deborah is a 2012 Teaching Shakespeare Institute alum and a Folger Summer Academy mentor teacher. Her doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction is from The University of South Carolina; her dissertation is about the teaching of Shakespeare to increase student comprehension, empathy, and awareness of gender and race issues. When she isn’t teaching, she loves to attend her weekly tap dance class, play tennis, travel to new places, and dig in the dirt. Deborah is also a contributor to the upcoming The Folger Guides to Teaching Shakespeare (expected 2024).