Curricula
There are multiple ways you can access our course content. You can:
1. Choose to purchase an individual curriculum item
2. Purchase the Inspired Citizens Package which contains all the content!
Note that Romeo & Juliet: A New Verona and Timbuctoo: Threads and Thresholds will eventually have multiple levels of access available: Basic and Expanded. Click "PURCHASE" to be taken to a checkout page for each product.
Romeo & Juliet:
A New Verona
Scenes are performed by a diverse cast of professional actors and teaching artists, in tandem with mini-lessons asking students to explore point-of-view, empathy and complex choice/consequence. Through the theme of interdependence, students consider their roles as both community members and part of the ecosystem. Students move away from their desks and activate their body, voice and imagination to make Shakespeare feel immediate, personal, and alive. They are given a final invitation using maps, songs and theater to envision a New Verona.
Timbuctoo: Threads & Thresholds
The program instills a deeper understanding of how history gets remembered, or forgotten, and told. It considers the importance of land ownership in the U.S., community life and the multiple histories that places can contain and invites students to experience the past and imagine into the future.
Timbuctoo was a short-lived Adirondack farm settlement of African American New Yorkers, founded in 1846.
Using forms of narrative storytelling, scenes and a podcast, an ensemble of actors brings the story of Timbuctoo and its significance to life for students. This digital curriculum offers teachers multiple entry points to engage their students in creative writing, movement, performance and collaboration in the classroom. Threaded together by contemporary researchers, scholarship and storytelling, teachers and students will explore how the story of Timbuctoo is a threshold to a more just world.
Inspired Citizens Package
This package allows you to gain access to both of our individual Romeo & Juliet: A New Verona AND Timbuctoo: Threads and Thresholds courses.
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