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The Shakespearience Workshop 1.5: Further Practice to Grasp Shakespeare Faster!

A one-time class to continue building learners’ confidence in deciphering and speaking Shakespeare! No prior Shakesperience Required, though completion of Shakespearience 1.0 is encouraged.

Michael Haller, MFA

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What's included

1 live meeting

1 in-class hours

Class Experience

Welcome to the “The Shakesperience Workshop 1.5”!  In this class we are going to continue working with what we learned in Shakespearience 1.0 to build CONFIDENCE in reading Shakespeare faster.  

This class will REVIEW our four helpful tips and then dive right in to some new scenes and monologues from different plays, working together to find out what’s being said and what it all means! 

As a professional Actor, and Shakespeare Specialist, I am excited to share his secrets and let you into the club!  All levels are welcome - -  No prior Shakespearience required.

This class is designed for anyone who wants to know more about Shakespeare, get an edge for reading his plays aloud in English class, or for actors who want to gain the tools to ROCK that audition for the school play! 

PARENTS:  Your children will continue to encounter new works with every Shakespearience level, expanding their knowledge of and familiarity with Shakespeare’s Comedies, Tragedies, and Histories.  

Class will consist of:

Game: 
We will learn and practice our fun and silly Shakespearean Insults (“You Mewling Half-Faced Measle!!).

Lesson:  
We will quickly review our four (4) simple steps to understand Shakespeare faster from Shakespearience 1.0.

Practice:
We will read scenes and speeches aloud and work through them together discussing:
	-what’s happening in the scene and why it matters
	-what the characters are revealing to us in their language
	-implementing the four simple steps we learned earlier in Shakespearience 1.0!   

Review and Q&A:
We'll end class with a review and a short Question & Answer session with me, a professional Actor!

I can’t wait to see you in class so we can practice our Shakespeare!

Learning Goals

Students will take their comprehension skills to the next level.  They will find challenge and guidance that aims to:

-Engender confidence and empowerment.

-Refine their intuition for what characters are doing with their speech.

-Sharpen their critical "listening" skills for understanding the nuance of language and rhetorical argument/debate.

-Expand their vocabulary as well as their grasp of larger than average thoughts.

Other Details

Parental Guidance

Shakespeare can SOMETIMES contain adult themes and violent imagery (PG-13 level). All discretion will be applied should we encounter anything of the sort, though rest assured that all text used in class has been PRE-SCREENED to be age-appropriate.

Supply List

Please be sure the learner has a Printed Out copy of the "SHAKESPEARIENCE 1.5 HANDOUT" (ATTACHED ON CLASSROOM PAGE), as well as a pencil as we will write on the handout and mark up the examples a good deal.

1 file available upon enrollment

External Resources

In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:

Online Shakespeare Lexicon

Sources

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Online Shakespeare Lexicon: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.03.0079&redirect=true