PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE
The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles (SCLA) presents Illuminating Youth Voices a professional development workshop designed to teach Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet exploring Identity, Community, Justice and Action. The workshops provide arts-based teaching strategies that can transform how Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is taught in high school English Language Arts/History and Social Studies classes. Offering teachers an innovative curriculum that emphasizes the Learning for Justice standards developed by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Led by local and national teaching artists and Shakespeare-focused educators.Teaching Artists and Educators will have an opportunity to learn alongside our Youth Leaders from Will Power to Youth (WPY) as an integral part of the development process. Teachers will receive two (2) free tickets to a performance of WPY’s Romeo and Juliet this summer and discounted tickets to a main stage show.
Topics and activities include:
· Exploring Romeo & Juliet and what students can gain from these close reading strategies
· Ideas and prompts for activating students' prior knowledge
· Connecting themes in Romeo & Juliet to social justice topics,
· Making sense as a community through guided paraphrasing,
· Movement and physicality for embodied experiences of the text,
· Creative ideas for student action through writing, dramatic, and multimodal assignments
· Drafting lesson plans that reflect your students and how you can encourage their voices
· Reflections and discussions about challenges in our teaching contexts, and much more.
ILLUMINATING YOUTH VOICES | IN-PERSON
Day 1
July 21ST
ILLUMINATING YOUTH VOICES | IN-PERSON
Day 2
July 22ND
ILLUMINATING YOUTH VOICES | ZOOM
Day 3
July 29th
9:00 AM-3:00 PM
ZOOM
5 hours of training + lunch break