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The Hobart Shakespeareans: Directed by Mel Stuart. With Rafe Esquith, Ian McKellen, Michael York. Rafe Esquith, 1992 American Teacher of the Year and National Medal of Arts recipient, teaches 5th-grade children whose parents don't speak English at a school in a dangerous, poor, drug-infested 100% Latino/Asian neighborhood in Los Angeles.
There's not a grandstanding moment in the hour as Los Angeles teacher Rafe Esquith of Hobart Elementary School goes through his own personal rigors to teach a class of inner-city immigrant 5th graders all the standard elementary school topics as well as Shakespeare, and at the end of the year they perform "Hamlet" for their amazed families.
Film Description. Rafe Esquith with Hobart Elementary School students. Imagine the sight and sound of American nine- and eleven-year-old children performing Shakespeare's Hamlet or Henry V -- and understanding every word they recite.
- Mel Stuart
- September 6, 2005
The Hobart Shakespeareans. Summaries. Rafe Esquith, 1992 American Teacher of the Year and National Medal of Arts recipient, teaches 5th-grade children whose parents don't speak English at a school in a dangerous, poor, drug-infested 100% Latino/Asian neighborhood in Los Angeles.
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Overview. Rafe Esquith, 1992 American Teacher of the Year and National Medal of Arts recipient, teaches 5th-grade children whose parents don't speak English at a school in a dangerous, poor, drug-infested 100% Latino/Asian neighborhood in Los Angeles. Mel Stuart. Director.
2004. 8.5 (147) The Hobart Shakespeareans is a documentary film released in 2005 that shines a light on the extraordinary work done by Rafe Esquith, a fifth-grade teacher at Hobart Elementary School in Los Angeles, California.
