And the 1st Ever TO WRITE OR NOT TO WRITE is Complete! @Cwpfairfield @FolgerLibrary @WritingProject @fairfieldu

We tried something new this: To Write or Not To Write, A Shakespearean Lab. I am so proud of the teachers, Dr. Shannon Kelley and Kara Peters for pulling the young people (well coaching them) so far in one week. They accomplished Midsummer Night's Dream and Macbeth. They also mentored the kids to writing their own monologues, sonnets, and scripts. I was extremely impressed and know that this is definitely a literacy lab to continue in the future. It worked. 

With Thanks to Will

T his is us, us is we
H aving Elizabethan fun within Shakespeare harmony,
A ll the world's a stage, & we are just players,
N udging out of his prose the intellectual layers,
K kowing we see more , we are truth-sayers,

Y outh at the doorway,
O f a more celestial world:
U niversalities, traditions, rituals twirled,

W its the magic of faeries, witches, & spirits,
I imagining new worlds, reaching new heights,
L oving our sonnets, drafting our screens,
L earning from the Bard, his language equipped,
I llusions, delusions, confusion, explosion -
A rriving with visions, new missions, implosions,
M acbeth, we are the daggers that lie before thee

S hannon, Kara, a week with CWP
H armonizing. Synthenizing, compromising to be more free,
A skin ourselves whether to be or not to be ...
K ryptonite not strong enough, we are much too might.
E each of us writing to help up
S ee, the songs we have within.
P eople, from here we can only begin
E volving into something brand new,
A ll of us together, a Shakespearean crew.
R omeo, Hamlet, Taming of the Shrew.
E exeunt. Finale from us to you.