Edutopia – Matthew James Friday
“To enjoy Shakespeare or not to enjoy Shakespeare, that is the question. The response for middle school students is often the latter. When they open up the text for the first time, a common question is: Is this modern English? There follows a sea of comprehension troubles, anxiety, and a feeling that these old plays can’t have any meaning for them. It doesn’t have to be this way. Here’s how I introduce Shakespeare to middle school students so that they have fun cocreating and performing their own adapted versions of the Bard’s plays.” (more)