2011 Schools Guide - Stratford Festival

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Proud Sponsor of the Ontario Schools Project
Stratford in Your Classroom
The Ontario Schools Project
Live theatre stimulates the senses and offers an immediacy
and excitement quite different from that of any other medium.
Both Artistic Director Des McAnuff and General Director
Antoni Cimolino feel that this unique opportunity should be
made available to students throughout Ontario – hence the
Festival’s new Ontario Schools Project.
With the goal of making it possible for each and every student in
Ontario to experience live theatre at Stratford at least once before
they graduate from Grade 12, the Ontario Schools Project is
designed to introduce students in different regions each year to
the full Festival experience.
Targeted regions for the 2011 season are Ottawa and Windsor.
Teachers in these areas are invited to participate in the program,
which includes:
• A full-day workshop for teachers based on either The Grapes of
Wrath or Twelfth Night, with curriculum-based lesson plans provided.
• An artist visit to the classroom to support the teacher in an
active, drama-based approach to the teaching of the play.
• Excellent seats already reserved for Ontario Schools Project
classes to see the play they are studying.
For full details, please visit stratfordshakespearefestival.com/osp.
Study Guides
Study Guides, which include background information about the
play as well as teaching ideas and strategies, are available for all
the Shakespeare plays on the playbill, as well as selected additional
titles. Previous seasons’ titles are also available. Check them
out at stratfordshakespearefestival.com/studyguides.
Special for 2011! Teachers ordering tickets for The Merry Wives
of Windsor will receive a complimentary copy of the Cambridge
School edition of the play, jam-packed full of incredible teaching
strategies and ideas.
Online Teaching Materials
Download materials and instructions for dozens of our favourite
classroom activities – all keyed to curriculum expectations.
(Activities may be adapted to any play or novel study.) Visit
stratfordshakespearefestival.com/teachingmaterials.
Not on your curriculum? Not a problem!
Seeing a Shakespeare play performed live by one of the world’s
leading classical theatre companies is a rich learning experience
no matter what you’re studying in class. That’s why, for the
three lesser-known Shakespeare titles on our 2011 playbill, we’ve
included quick tips on how you can relate that play to the ones you
teach. See pages 10 to 12.