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Bring oratory and performance into your classroom. Classrooms study a historical speech and learn to perform it over five virtual visits with a Ford’s Teaching Artist. Classrooms create performance videos to share with Ford’s!
We’re bringing the stage to you! Register to receive access to a filmed performance of our 40-minute one-act play about the Lincoln assassinatoin. Perfect for students ages 8 and older. In “One Destiny”, you will learn about President Lincoln’s assassination from two men who were there. Actor Harry Hawk and Ford’s Theatre co-owner Harry Ford revisit the events of April 14, 1865. As they reconstruct the sequence of events, they grapple with the question: Could John Wilkes Booth have been stopped? This 40-minute performance explores the key facts of the assassination while capturing the emotions of that fateful night. After registering, you’ll receive a YouTube link where you can watch the previously filmed performance. You’ll have access to the recording until June 13, 2021.
Ford’s Theatre Education is pleased to endorse the anti-racist teaching principles of the Center for Anti-Racist Education. This reflects our commitment to becoming an anti-racist institution and our continuing efforts to elevate traditionally overlooked voices, both historical and contemporary. We recognize the legacy of institutional racism in the United States. We support anti-racist educators and an anti-racist curriculum to create needed change. To create change, we must think critically about what we teach, whose stories are told and how current narratives reinforce racism. We pledge to recognize the diversity of American history and help every student feel safe, seen and celebrated. Just as racism can be learned, so can anti-racism.
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