Educational Programs

Kentucky Shakespeare provides unique educational opportunities that utilize arts and humanities core content through these interactive workshops:

Bard Buddies (K-3^rd)

Shakespeare and primary students have become the best of buddies in this one-hour interactive workshop. Our professional artist educator spins the story of a Shakespearean drama while guiding the students through acting out the play. By the time they’re ready for the end, the students will want to start all over again.

Maximum number of students: 25

Inspecting Shakespeare (4^th-12^th)

This program revolves around three scenes from three Shakespearean plays, cushioned on all sides with interactive discussion between our artists and your students. With arts and sciences core content woven into the exchange, this one-hour, interactive performance workshop is the full Shakespearience.

Scenes for 2012-2013: Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet and Julius Caesar.

Maximum number of students: 150

Staging Shakespeare (4^th-12^th)

Students breathe life into Shakespeare’s text in this one-hour interactive workshop. Our artist educator leads students in building a foundation of acting skills, teamwork and an understanding of Shakespeare. Students are guided through the rehearsal process and build a performance piece with Shakespearean text. Scenes from Romeo and Juliet will be the focus, unless the teacher makes a specific request at the time of booking.

Maximum number of students: 25

Living History: We the People (K-12^th)

This 60 minute performance focuses on our rights and responsibilities as members of a democratic society. By bringing primary source documents to life, we are able to look back at historic figures and how they helped sculpt the society in which we live today. This program consists of two performance options focusing on different curriculum content.

Performance A: Geared for 4-8th grades focuses on the following historical content:

-Road to the Revolutionary War )including the Boston Tea Party, Coercive Acts, Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, Congressional Congresses, and the Declaration of Independence.)

- Formation of a new government (Articles of Confederation, Constitution and the Bill of Rights)

- Manifest Destiny (including Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears)

- Social Reforms ( including Dorethea Dix, Horace Mann, Seneca Falls Woman’s’ Rights Convention)

- Abolition vs. Anti-Abolition

- Civil War

- Jim Crow Laws and ending Slavery (Amendments 13-15)

- Social Media and our First Amendment Rights

Performance B: Geared for 9-12th grades focuses on the following historical content:

- Road to Revolutionary War

- Formation of a new government (emphasis on First amendment)

- Westward expansion (Homestead Act, Transcontinental railroad, immigration,Native Americans and reservations, Chief Crazy Horse)

- Progressive Movement (Carrie Chapman Catt, Woman’s right movement, Jane Addams and the Hull House, Jacob Riis Photography, Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”)

- WWII (Japanese internment camps, Fascism, and escalation into the war)

- The Red Scare (Communism, McCarthy, and Senator Margaret Smith’s Address to Congress)

- The 1960′s (Civil Rights Movement, sit-ins at Woolworths, Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream”, Vietnam Draft, Veterans address to congress in 1985)

- Social media and our First Amendment Rights (2011 Egyptian Asmaa Mahfouz’s YouTube call to action)

Maximum number of students: 200

Julius Caesar: Two-person Tour (K-5th)

This age-approriate, two-person version of Julius Caesar centers on the themes of friendship and honesty: How can the view of others effect our own, and why it is important to think for ourselves and form our own opinions? Watch as Brutus struggles between his friendship with Caesar and his desire to impress Cassius.

Maximum number of students: 200

Julius Caesar Spring Tour (6th-12th)

Our professional company presents a 90-minute production of Shakespeare’s history tragedy about the rise and fall of Tome’s notorious dictator, Julius Caesar. Follow Brutus as he battles with the themes of honor, patriotism, and friendship. This production puts an emphasis on language, making Shakespeare’s words immediately accessible to its audience, without compromising the original integrity of the work.

Maximum number of students: 1,000

UPDATED Common Core Standards for our education programs:

CCSS K-5 Literacy 2012-13

CCSS 6-12 Literacy 2012-13

CCSS Social Studies 2012-13

2013-2014 Programming Update:

In addition to our previous offerings, the 2013-14 Education Catalog will be adding the following:

‘Faerie tales from Across the Globe’ (Grades K-3 – Designed to teach students about cultural diversity and morality).

‘Chronicles of the Commonwealth’ (Grades 4-8 – An addendum of Living History that focuses solely on recounting the history of Kentucky).

Please check back for further details!

For Details Contact:

Beth Dunn
Education Program Manager
(502) 574-9900
beth@kyshakespeare.com