Shakespeare Program Aimed At Helping ESL Students Learn English Language

The Chicago Sun-Times (10/28, Noulihan) reported on the ESL/Shakespeare program at Gage Park High School in Chicago that began last year. Maria Rivera, the ESL teacher who created the program in which students study Shakespeare's use of language, said it gives students "a new creative avenue into the English language, a new way of learning words and their meanings that they find unique, exciting and fulfilling." The ESL students learn and perform adapted versions of Shakespeare plays onstage at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.