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the inspired citizens project
Guided by a company of professional actors, this expertly researched, developed and acclaimed digital curriculum package allows a classroom community to ask questions, activate imagination, and find physical and emotional ways to interrogate themes such as interdependence, race, love, power and hope.
Both of these programs are full of cross-curricular, thought-provoking content that encourages students to develop critical thinking as well as their capacities to hold multiple perspectives.
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.
Romeo & Juliet: A New Verona features the actors approach as a way to understand the themes, characters and plot of the iconic Shakespearean tragedy. Through the lens of interdependence versus independence the actor/teaching artist asks students to personalize the text as it leads to the choices the characters make. It asks students to think about the individuals' relationship to society, community and what we might do to function even better.
Romeo & Juliet: A New Verona full package includes:
(2) Full length videos
Timbuctoo:
Threads and 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.
Timbuctoo: Threads & Thresholds unpacks history into events and persons whose stories can transfer over time and place. We provide multiple points of entry into discussions of power, privilege, social justice and oppression.
Timbuctoo: Threads & Thresholds full package includes:
(2) Videos
(1) Narrative podcast
(1) Educator's guidelines PDF
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If you are interested in purchasing a package now, please email gianna@courageousstage.org and we will be more than happy to offer you our purchase options directly.