Lashley’s Blog

     Rex Gibson discusses the concept of using props when teaching Shakespeare’s plays in the secondary classroom in his book Teaching Shakespeare.
       “The teacher provides a simple prop such as a chair, a mirror, or a spoon.  Students can show how different characters in the play they are studying would use the prop in a […]

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            “Miss Smith, why we gotta know this?”  This comment has haunted me again and again in my short teaching career – first with Beowulf then with The Canterbury Tales.  To be honest, I cannot always answer this question.  I know why I would read Beowulf, but my salute to the older cultures and their […]

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