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The decision is aimed at better performance on state tests and avoiding sexual content found in some of the Bard’s work.
The decision is aimed at better performance on state tests and avoiding sexual content found in some of the Bard’s work.
Shakespeare is never taught properly in school anyways. I always hated it. They teach plays by making you read and analyze. That’s like taking a film course and reading the scripts but never watching the movies.
Once you watch Shakespeare as intended, on a stage but nothing fancy, by actors who don’t take themselves too seriously, it clicks. But reading the plays as a teenager is just dumb.
I was so glad one of my high school teacher had us watch movies after we read a play. The best was her having us watch Throne of Blood after we finished Macbeth.
I pray you didn’t have to watch the modern remake of Romeo and juliet like I did.
Say what you will about it, you can’t say that Harold Perrineau didn’t absolutely nail the role of Mercutio.
Romeo + Juliet is the only version I enjoy.
This thing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VBsi0VxiLg
My school would have his read a portion ourselves, then we would follow along to the audio while rereading it, and for bonus points you could read a speech from it to the class at the end.
Maybe not perfect but I do remember Julius Ceaser.
I enjoyed English class in school, but in the years during and after university, I’ve come to realise just how much I was missing out. I used to think Shakespeare was overrated, but now I see the big deal