Program

Education Programs: Institutes for K-12 Educators

Period of Performance

3/1/1973 - 5/31/1975

Funding Totals

$54,750.00 (approved)
$54,750.00 (awarded)


Teaching of Shakespeare and the Reaniassance in Urban Secondary Schools

FAIN: ES-10325-73

Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC 20003-1004)
Betty A. Kane (Project Director: March 1973 to present)

To support expansion activities of a Shakespeare teaching enrichment program in which teachers and librarians from the D.C. public school system meet in seminar/workshops with the Folger Library staff to explore a variety of approaches to teaching individual plays, including live in-class staging of scenes from the plays being studied. The project is a cooperative venture of the Folger Library, the D.C. school system, and the National Home Library Foundation.