Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Bringing Bill Behind Bars

Bill Shakespeare that is.  Or as most of you know him, William.

That's right, last week I hosted the Shakespeare program with the students at the YIC.  We kicked off the night with a Shakespeare trivia game to get some facts down about Bill's life, work, and time.  Smarties were the prize for the winner... 'cause the winner had to be pretty smart to get those answers right!

Next, the teens played a homemade version of Nine Men's Morris, a checkers-like game Shakespeare himself may have played in the Elizabethan Era.  The game board, authentically, looks like this.

But the teens played a paper version with swedish fish and m&ms as their game pieces!

We watched a video clip from the lovely Reduced Shakespeare Company.  These guys ROCK and the teens were laughing SO HARD.  See for yourself!



The teens lastly got a taste of acting themselves, learned about their public libraries in Lancaster, and learned how to use the library in the center.