Kids Love Shakespeare!

"Thank you so much. Our 4th and 5th graders performed Twelfth Night in May. It was awesome! That's why we bought (your) other scripts. Any chance you're currently adding to the collection? Our school finishes each year with a Shakespeare Festival. Thank you for your beautiful work and for making it available."

- From the Founder of Ambleside School of Ocala, Florida

Very cool news...
https://www.facebook.com/mollyroselewis/posts/10101356930307584

Christopher Marlowe credited as one of Shakespeare's co-writers Dramatists to appear jointly on title pages of Henry VI, Parts One, Two and Three in the New Oxford Shakespeare after analysis by team of 23 academics

Happy birthday, William!!! Here's a fun quiz to celebrate...https://www.facebook.com/deschuteslibrary/posts/10156730776380462

A quiz! My kingdom for a Shakespeare quiz Think you know a bit about the Bard? Find out if you're a wise scholar or a motley fool when it comes to all things Shakespearean ...

Has anyone seen this yet!? Could be really fun to do with older students? Not real Shakespeare, but something FUN...

'Pop Sonnets' Finds Hidden Shakespeare In Top 40 Tunes Originally a popular Tumblr, Pop Sonnets makes iambic hay out of modern artists like Kesha and Eminem. Critic Tasha Robinson explains why Sonnets isn't your average impulse-buy humor book.

We got some amazing feedback on one of our resources today...

"Outstanding resource. I had my doubts that 3-4 would "get" the imagery, but I was wrong. This curriculum was outstanding and was one of my most rewarding experiences in the classroom this year. Thank you!"

If you want to check it out for yourself...

Romeo & Juliet - Passage Illustration Activity TeachersPayTeachers.com -- 1,300,000+ free and priced teaching resources created by teachers for instant download including lesson plans, interactive

Look what I found this evening... Glad our adaptation brought your Chinese students and audiences so much pleasure, Ms. K!
http://kennedyamanda.weebly.com/drama-class.html

Drama class At the end of each semester in my five years of teaching Acting 11/12, I would often say that there is no way I'm going to enjoy the next group as much as I did the last, and EVERY class would prove...

More wonderful feedback from a teacher that has used our scripts for the past three years...

"I have used other people's plays and studied Shakespeare for a long time. Nothing comes close to the way you've put together these plays for kids. I love that you've kept the nugget of the stories in tact and included the famous lines. And yet, it's still very accessible for the kids and they walk away totally unintimidated."

A lovely note from a drama teacher in Montana...

"We just closed on A Midsummer... and it was a complete success! How I love your renditions of Shakespearean work. Please, please write some more. You really are able to capture what 5th graders are willing and wanting to perform: from one educator to another...your plays are the BEST. We need another!!"

Our 5th adaptation, THE TEMPEST, is finally available for download!
http://kidsloveshakespeare.com/shop/the_tempest/

The Tempest - Kids Love Shakespeare This version of The Tempest provides roles for 22 students: 4 male roles, 1 female roles, and 17 roles that can be played by either. All 22 roles are speaking characters. 7 are considered large, 4 are considered medium, and 11 roles are considered small. The small roles are easy to combine, double-c…

Happy Birthday, William! Any classrooms celebrating?

Have you heard!?

London: Lost Play of Shakespeare Discovered in Family Heirloom London| The team of experts from the auction house Christie's, have confirmed this morning that a 16th century book found recently in the personnal collection of a recently deceased English Lord, is indeed an authentic printed version of William Shakespeare's lost play, The History of Cardenio. The…