MASTER CLASS: TEACHING HAMLET Thursday, December 10, 2015 7:00-8:00 pm EST Folger Education Alabama Public Television Folger Shakespeare Library Washington, DC MASTER CLASS: TEACHING HAMLET Live from the Folger Shakespeare Library Thursday, December 10, 2015 7:00-8:00 pm AGENDA Part One: Expand Your Own Knowledge of Hamlet: Two scholars and many lenses —Dr. Gail Kern Paster, Director emerita, Folger Shakespeare Library —Dr. Michael Witmore, Director, Folger Shakespeare Library Part Two: Getting Students To Live Inside That Language —Mark Miazga, Teacher of English, City College High School, Baltimore Part Three: Hamlet With Your Students, In Your Classroom —Jill Burdick-Zupancic, Teacher of English, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Fairfax, VA —Amber Phelps, Teacher of English, City College High School, Baltimore **To submit questions before the live stream, please email [email protected] . On December 10th you will receive an email with a link to access the live stream from [email protected] . During the Master Class, if you are experiencing technical difficulties, please email [email protected] Master Class: Teaching Hamlet Faculty 1. Greta Brasgalla El Dorado High School, El Paso, TX: Greta Brasgalla is an English Instructional Coach at El Dorado High School in El Paso, Texas. She teaches Dual Credit English on her campus and teaches English online for El Paso Community College. In her 24 years of teaching, she has taught everything from 7th graders to AP English Literature. Greta is TSI 2012 alum. She is also a member of the Folger National Teacher Corps and will be a mentor teacher this summer at TSI 2016. She can be contacted at [email protected] or on Twitter @gbrasg. 2. Jill Burdick-Zupanic Thomas Jefferson HS, Alexandria, VA: Jill Burdick-Zupancic is in her eighth year as an educator and currently teaches Honors English and AP Art History at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, VA. She is a Teaching Shakespeare Institute (TSI) alumna from 2012, and a member of the Folger National Teaching Corp. Jill can be reached at [email protected]. 3. Deborah Gascon Dutch Fork HS, Irmo, SC: Deborah Gascon is a National Board Certified teacher who has taught for 20 years and currently teaches English 2, AP English Literature and Composition and Journalism at Dutch Fork High School in Irmo, SC. Deborah is TSI 2012 alum. She is a member of the Folger National Teacher Corps and was a master teacher at the Folger’s first Summer Academy in July of 2015. She can be contacted at [email protected] or on Twitter @DeborahGascon1. 4. Mark Miazga Baltimore City College High School, Baltimore, MD: Mark Miazga is in his 15th year teaching English and coaching baseball in the Baltimore City Public Schools, at Baltimore City College High School, a large urban school and the 3rd oldest public high school in the country. A National Board certified teacher, Mr. Miazga received the Milken Educator Award for the state of Maryland in 2014; in addition, he is a 2008 Folger Shakespeare Institute scholar, a 2013 Steinbeck Institute Scholar, and a member of the Folger National Teacher Corps. 5. Gail Kern Paster Director Emerita, Folger Shakespeare Library: Gail Kern Paster took office as Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library on July 1, 2002 and retired from that position, as Director emerita in July 2011. She is currently Director emerita and Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, the leading scholarly journal devoted to Shakespeare. Before serving as Folger Director, she was a Professor of English at The George Washington University. She earned a B.A., magna cum laude, at Smith College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a Ph.D. at Yale University. She has won many national fellowships and awards, including fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, National Endowment from the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. She was named to the Queen’s Honours List as a Commander of the British Empire in May 2011. She continues to pursue her scholarly interests in the cultural history of the body and the emotions. Dr. Paster has been a trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America and served as President of that organization in 2003. She serves on the Board of Governors of the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Newberry Library, and on the Scholars’ Council of Theater for a New Audience in New York City. 6. Amber Phelps Baltimore City College High School, Baltimore, MD: Amber Phelps is in her 6th year of teaching English at Baltimore City College High School. She currently teaches both Literature & Performance and English I in the Diploma and Middle Years Programs within the International Baccalaureate program. Ms. Phelps is an alumna of both Teach for America (Baltimore '10) and the Folger Library’s 2012 Teaching Shakespeare Institute. 7. Peggy O’Brien Director of Education, Folger Shakespeare Library: Dr. O’Brien founded the Library’s education department in the early 1980’s, establishing the Library’s education philosophy and the bulk of its programs—including the Teaching Shakespeare Institute--and creating as well as serving as general editor for the Shakespeare Set Free series. She led the department until 1994, when she left to become director of education programs for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Concurrent with that appointment and in collaboration with Cambridge University Press and Georgetown University, she launched and published Shakespeare Magazine, a print and online magazine for teachers of Shakespeare. In 2000, she became COO of Knowledge In, Knowledge Out, Inc., an internet educational company and, a year later, was named Executive Director of the National Cable and Telecommunications Education Foundation. In 2004, she returned to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as senior vice president of education programming and services. Most recently, she was the chief of family and public engagement for D.C. public schools and a member of the Chancellor's leadership team. Prior to her first appointment at the Folger, she spent a number of years teaching high school English in the DC Public Schools, and since then has taught undergraduate education courses at Georgetown University. 8. Michael Witmore Director, Folger Shakespeare Library: Michael Witmore is a scholar of Shakespeare and early modern literature as well as a pioneer in the digital analysis of Shakespeare’s texts. Prior to his appointment as Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, he was a Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin where he directed the Working Group for Digital Inquiry, a group of humanists who use computers to assist in traditional humanities research. Earlier, he was Professor of English at Carnegie-Mellon University. His books include Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion, co-edited with David Loewenstein (2014); Landscapes of the Passing Strange: Reflections from Shakespeare (2010), a collaboration with noted writer and photographer Rosamond Purcell; Shakespearean Metaphysics (2008); Pretty Creatures: Children and Fiction in the English Renaissance (2007); Culture of Accidents: Unexpected Knowledges in Early Modern England (2001); and Childhood and Children’s Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800 (2006), which he co-edited. He is currently writing a book on the digital analysis of Shakespeare’s texts with Jonathan Hope, and shares work in progress on his blog: www.winedarksea.org. Witmore earned an A.B. in English at Vassar College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Master Class: Teaching Hamlet Producer Danielle Drakes School Programs Manager, Folger Shakespeare Library: Danielle A. Drakes is Folger’s Manager of School Programs. She is equal parts artist and educator. Ms. Drakes has been a theater practitioner in the Washington, DC area for over 16 years. Her work as a teaching artist varies from literacy enrichment programs and youth led theater for social change workshops to training emerging theater educators. She has taught at American, Bowie State and Howard Universities. She is a two-time Theatre Communications Group, Young Leaders of Color award recipient and Founder & Producing Artistic Director of theHegira Theatre Company, where she has directed and produced contemporary and new plays by and about women of color. Other professional production credits include Arena Stage, The Kennedy Center, Ford's Theatre, and African Continuum Theatre. MASTER CLASS: TEACHING HAMLET Packet of Teaching Materials **Included in this packet are a range of materials that are useful with students of all ability levels. 1. Two-Line Scene Cards 2. 3-D Shakespeare 3. Hamlet Word Frequency List 4. Comparing Q1 to F1 with Venn Diagram--To Be and Oh What a Rogue 5. Polonius’ Precepts 6. No Fear Shakespeare vs. The Real Thing 7. “To Be or Not to Be”--in English and in Spanish 8. Diving into the King’s Speech Chorally 9. Gertrude’s Loyalties? A Close Look at 3 Scenes (Coronation, Closet, Death) 10. Breaking up Longer Scenes to Dive in: 4.5.1-21 11. Compare Soliloquies in Different Movie Versions 12. Silent Graffiti 13. Swap and Spy 14. Prompt Books into Performance 15. More Resources for You Hamlet Two Line Scene Cards: Pre Reading Two Line Scene Cards are a fast and fun introduction to the play. Print out this sheet and cut the lines into strips. If possible, print them out on cardstock. Directions 1. Each student then gets a card and practices the line. You can be conscious about who gets what cards. ELL students or shy students can get a shorter line. 2. Guiding Questions: What does the line mean? How can I make the words mean something more by how I use my voice or body? 3. Here are the rules: a. They can only use the words on their paper.