The Sharing Shakespeare project at New York City's Public School for the Deaf developed a unique, elective, process-oriented literature class that combined teenage profoundly deaf students and culturally diverse, limited-English-proficient hearing students. Aided by multimedia technologies, these students collaborated in learning, reading, and…

Believing that special preparation is necessary for teaching the emerging adolescent in middle school, the author outlines the ideal program and calls for cooperation in developing it on the part of all education agencies. (Editor)