[ti:For Young Offenders, a Sentence of Shakespeare's Sentences]
[ar:Steve Ember]
[al:Education Report]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is the VOA Special English
[00:03.27]Education Report.
[00:05.15]In the American state of Massachusetts,
[00:08.20]some teenagers who break the law
[00:10.95]are sentenced -- to Shakespeare.
[00:14.03]ACTOR: "A kingdom for a stage ... "
[00:17.27]Twelve young actors rehearse
[00:20.45]the opening of "Henry the Fifth."
[00:22.88]They started meeting three
[00:25.08]and a half weeks ago.
[00:26.72]They have less than two weeks
[00:29.11]to go before they must perform
[00:31.54]the play for the Shakespeare
[00:34.09]in the Courts program.
[00:36.02]Fifteen-year-old Tim was not
[00:39.10]a fan of William Shakespeare.
[00:41.24]He is here for a violent crime
[00:44.24]-- assault and battery.
[00:45.98]TIM: "You know, the judge
[00:46.73]sentenced me here,
[00:47.66]so my first thoughts were kinda,
[00:49.32]you know, uh, this is kinda,
[00:52.70]Shakespeare's not my thing.
[00:54.13]You know, plays, kinda,
[00:55.83]you know, I'd rather not.
[00:57.48]But it's a lot easier
[00:59.37]than picking up trash,
[01:00.86]you know, and doing that,
[01:02.41]so, you know, I gave it a try."
[01:04.55]And he discovered
[01:05.89]there is a lot to like
[01:07.68]about the English writer
[01:09.26]who died in sixteen sixteen.
[01:11.51]KEVIN COLEMAN: "So everyone has a sword?"
[01:13.47]TIM: "Assault and battery and you
[01:14.56]hand me a sword in Shakespeare?
[01:15.36]I didn't think that was going
[01:16.40]to happen, not at all.
[01:17.25]I'm glad they trust us, though."
[01:18.98]The young actors return the trust
[01:21.48]and respect that director
[01:23.62]Kevin Coleman shows them.
[01:25.47]They clearly enjoy working
[01:27.74]with him -- and with Shakespeare.
[01:30.24]KEVIN COLEMAN: "If you present it
[01:32.68]to them in a way
[01:34.63]that engages their imagination,
[01:38.06]that engages their playfulness,
[01:41.20]that engages their willingness,
[01:43.49]they come alive."
[01:47.33]Kevin Coleman is education director
[01:50.16]for Shakespeare and Company,
[01:52.70]a theater group in Lenox, Massachusetts.
[01:55.63]Many years ago, the principal
[01:58.52]of the local high school came to him
[02:00.91]to develop a theater program for the school.
[02:04.19]That principal, Paul Perachi,
[02:07.48]later became a juvenile court judge
[02:10.56]for Berkshire County.
[02:12.51]He wanted to copy the program,
[02:14.94]to help the teens in court
[02:17.63]develop self-esteem
[02:19.68]and communication skills
[02:21.58]and better control their anger.
[02:24.81]More than two hundred kids
[02:27.44]have been sentenced to Shakespeare.
[02:29.79]The program is ten years old.
[02:32.48]And it has received a lot of recognition,
[02:35.91]including an award in two thousand six
[02:39.34]from the White House.
[02:41.04]Paul Perachi left the court
[02:43.59]last year at seventy,
[02:45.87]the age when judges in Massachusetts
[02:48.56]must retire.
[02:50.15]But Shakespeare in the Courts
[02:52.18]is still going strong
[02:54.23]under the direction of Kevin Coleman.
[02:56.76]KEVIN COLEMAN: "We're not there to fix them.
[02:58.71]So will they get into trouble
[03:00.57]after they've done this program?
[03:02.06]Sure, because they're adolescents.
[03:04.45]Will they get into as much trouble? No."
[03:06.64]Fifteen-year-old Tim already
[03:08.83]sees a change in himself.
[03:10.62]He says he has more patience
[03:13.50]to get through long scenes.
[03:15.83]Paul Perachi says all the hard work
[03:19.28]is clear in the final performance.
[03:21.96]PAUL PERACHI: "You got family members,
[03:23.66]parents, siblings, grandparents, friends.
[03:27.28]A lot of these kids invite their teachers,
[03:29.03]of all people, to come in.
[03:30.87]And their lawyers.
[03:32.22]And the relatives and the teachers
[03:35.54]and all are proud of these kids.
[03:37.39]So everybody's got big smiles
[03:39.22]and flowers for the kids and little gifts."
[03:42.51]And that's the VOA Special English
[03:45.69]Education Report.
[03:47.39]You can watch a video of this report
[03:50.17]by Susan Logue at 51voa.com.
[03:55.01]I'm Steve Ember.
END OF TRACK. "END OF TRACK." The two men bowed. "Whoever was that person you were talking to?" she enquired, as soon as they stood together. The took of triumph faded from her eyes, she had grown worn and weary. The roses were wilting on the walls, the lights were mostly down now. Hetty, looking in to see if anything was wanted, found herself driven away almost fiercely. I only saw Master Jervie once when he called at tea time, The year 1747 was opened by measures of restriction. The House of Lords, offended at the publication of the proceedings of the trial of Lord Lovat, summoned the parties to their bar, committed them to prison, and refused to liberate them till they had pledged themselves not to repeat the offence, and had paid very heavy fees. The consequence of this was that the transactions of the Peers were almost entirely suppressed for nearly thirty years from this time, and we draw our knowledge of them chiefly from notes taken by Horace Walpole and Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. What is still more remarkable, the reports of the House of Commons, being taken by stealth, and on the merest sufferance, are of the most meagre kind, sometimes altogether wanting, and the speeches are given uniformly under fictitious names; for to have attributed to Pitt or Pelham their[112] speeches by name would have brought down on the printers the summary vengeance of the House. Many of the members complained bitterly of this breach of the privileges of Parliament, and of "being put into print by low fellows"; but Pelham had the sense to tolerate them, saying, "Let them alone; they make better speeches for us than we can make for ourselves." Altogether, the House of Commons exhibited the most deplorable aspect that can be conceived. The Ministry had pursued Walpole's system of buying up opponents by place, or pension, or secret service money, till there was no life left in the House. Ministers passed their measures without troubling themselves to say much in their behalf; and the opposition dwindled to Sir John Hinde Cotton, now dismissed from office, and a feeble remnant of Jacobites raised but miserable resistance. In vain the Prince of Wales and the secret instigations of Bolingbroke and Doddington stimulated the spirit of discontent; both Houses had degenerated into most silent and insignificant arenas of very commonplace business. "It certainly will be. Miss Widgeon," answered Maria, with strictly "company manners." "One who has never had a brother exposed to the constant dangers of army life can hardly understand how glad we all feel to have Si snatched from the very jaws of death and brung back to us." "Just plug at 'em as you would at a crow, and then go on your way whistlin'?" persisted Harry. "Hurroo!" echoed Hennessey; "that's the ticket." "Come forward, keeper," continued the baron, "and state how these arrows came into your hands!" "Yes." HoMEJULIA¾©Ïã2018ÏÂÔØ
ENTER NUMBET 0015ygchain.com.cn
www.xlchain.com.cn
www.yljsn.com.cn
www.xthuis.com.cn
zwezck.com.cn
www.nclxwl.com.cn
www.hanjiayuan.com.cn
dcepins.com.cn
www.zjlqjc.com.cn
dcep123.net.cn