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Presenters: Randy Lange, Associate Director, Belin-Blank Center; Jennifer Szwaya

Description: Insights, Experience Humor, Explore using Shakespeare in intermediate and middle school classrooms with author and educator Jen Szwaya, who has used Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Hamlet to support learners needing to be challenged with content that is complex, rich, and of high interest for over 10 years. Participants will review a collection of lessons and resources that address learning goals relating to point of view, character development, theme, comparing and contrasting, as well as multimedia interpretations. Strategies to support the social and emotional needs of students, the needs of multilingual learners, and tips for supporting twice exceptional students will be included. We will also discuss how the planning and implementation of a student-directed Shakespeare festival can maintain motivation, develop student agency, and allow for real world learning experiences to occur naturally alongside students’ study of the Bard’s words.   

Learning Goals: Understand how to use Shakespearian text and resources to target specific learning goals and support learners needing to be challenged with rigorous content. Recognize the value in providing students with the opportunity to design and implement their own Shakespearean Festival and understand how to go about making such an event happen. Develop confidence by using Shakespeare in the classroom. 

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