Educational Materials Archive | Krannert Center Youth Series

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Educational Materials Archive

Get educational materials from previous Youth Series performances here.

The African Company Presents Richard III

The African Company Presents Richard III Activity Guide

About The African Company Presents Richard III

Brief history of the African Company at BlackPast.org

Folger Shakespeare Library bio

Review of George A. Thompson Jr.’s A Documentary History of the African Theatre

Review of Shane White’s Stories of Freedom in Black New York

The John B. Cade Library pdf biography of Ira Aldridge

Carlyle Brown and his company

Brown muses on the process of playwriting

Laura Blanchard review

Selections from the script

Shakespeare at MIT

Open Source Shakespeare

No Fear Shakespeare

Internet Shakespeare Editions

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet

Shakespeare insults

University of Illinois Department of Theatre

Robert Ramirez

What’s in a Name?

Such Tweet Sorrow

Inez Brown on learning Richard III

Reduced Shakespeare Company

Reduced Shakespeare Company videos on Google

Reduced Shakespeare Company on YouTube

Flocabulary

Talk like Shakespeare Day

The BardBox

Shakespeare in Love screenplay

Shakespeare in Love trailer

Overview of Looking for Richard

Looking for Richard at the American Branch of the Richard III Society

All the World’s a Stage

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record

Documenting the American South

“First-Person Narratives of the American South”

Uncle Tom’s Cabin at the University of Virginia

PBS bio of Bert Williams

Karen Sotiropoulos on minstrelsy

Stephen Foster and minstrelsy

The Documentary of The Dance: The History of American Minstrelsy

Review of The Little Tommy Parker Celebrated Colored Minstrel Show

Review of George A. Thompson Jr.’s A Documentary History of the African Theatre

Kalamu ya Salaam on the Black Arts Movement

Black Arts Movement at Modern American Poetry

“The Magic of Juju: An Appreciation of the Black Arts Movement (BAM)”

Black Arts Movement in This Far by Faith

Black Arts Movement Festival

Black Playwrights Convening

Overview of African American women playwrights

Writers from Africa and the Diaspora Festival

Black Women Playwrights’ Group

“Black in a White Theater World”

Study guide by Michael J. Cummings

O Brave New World

Caribbean Views

Karl Watson on Barbados

Garífuna American Heritage Foundation United

National Geographic history of the Garífuna peoples

National Garífuna Council of Belize

Museum of the African Diaspora

Resources from the African Diaspora Archaeology Network

New Philadelphia

EyeWitness to History

New York Nineteenth Century Society

Views of New York from the New York Public Library

Images of African Americans from the New York Public Library

Survey of the Ashanti Empire

Yoruba art from Smith College (the exhibition is no longer online, but try this news article for a taste of the beaded objects)

Be Not Afraid of Greatness

“African American Odyssey”

African American firsts from Life magazine

Africans in America

Images of Revolutionary-era soldiers and references

Info on Revolutionary soldiers from the National Park Service

African Americans in the health professions

DuSable Museum of African American History

DuSable Heritage Association

Freedom’s Journal

African American Voices in Congress

Bios for African American inventors

Black Entrepreneurs of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries at Google Docs

Ads from HarpWeek

Black Abolitionist Archive

African Americans in education

Seneca Village, New York

Weeksville, New York

Carlyle Brown on African American jockeys

African Americans and sheet music

The Nineteenth Century in Print

Ideas from John Buescher at TeachingHistory.org

Do You Not Know I Am a Woman?

Search tips from the Library of Congress

Women in World History Curriculum

Timeline of the women’s rights movement

Links from Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000

Pat Pflieger’s collection of idiosyncratic works

Info on women’s work at Kennesaw State University

Info on women in business from Harvard Business School

Women travelers

Guide to prairie life

William Fowler’s Woman on the American Frontier: A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the “Pioneer Mothers of the Republic”

Preview of Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier

The domestic realm via Digital History

Douglas Harper on free and enslaved African Americans in the North

African American women writers

Women in Shakespeare’s time

Corinna Archer on women in Richard III

Champaign Public Library

Urbana Free Library

Anon(ymous)

What could Homer possibly say that’s relevant to living in the 21st-century United States? Picture Odysseus transformed into Anon, a teenage war refugee washed ashore on an unknown beach. Separated from his mother, Anon wanders through train tunnels, dive bars, ritzy homes, and urban alleys across the country in his quest to be reunited with her.

Anon(ymous) materials for students

· You’re My Hero . . .
· Odyssey, Huh?

· Magical Realism
· Exploring Sociopolitical Approaches
· The Quest
· Literary Allusion

Anon(ymous) Teacher’s Guide

· Project Gutenberg offers a free e-text of Samuel Butler’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey.

· Amazon.com carries The Lost Brigade (2005), a collection of poems by Bruce Guernsey.

· You can read a selection from the script of Anon(ymous) online.

· Alberto Álvaro Ríos has compiled many descriptions and definitions of the literary term magical realism.

· Alberto Álvaro Ríos investigates magical realism in his Resource Bank.

· See the complete lyrics for “Tales of Brave Ulysses.”

· The Media Awareness Network offers a unit entitled “Movie Heroes and the Heroic Journey.”

· Luminarium can point students toward the parallels between the medieval character Everyman and Anon.

· Anon reverberates with stories from real life, like that of Valentino Achak Deng.

Blues Journey