I had a WONDERFUL teacher in my freshman year who really was responsible for my love of Shakespeare. She was so enthusiastic about it. We had to do a tragedy every year, and we started with Romeo and Juliet. It was fantastic. By my senior year, I had another wonderful teacher who introduced Eliot and Keats. I was enamored.
We acted scenes of books and poems out in the classrooms. We dressed in costumes. My senior prof likened Keats to a chocolate raspberry cake, so I made one and we ate it while we discussed The Eve of St. Agnes. We had debates about Hamlet and Jane Eyre. We listened to sexy recitations of Neruda's poetry in both Spanish and English. We discussed the bleakness of war and shell shock and existentialism before reading Eliot. There were contests for memorization. We saw the Simpson's version of the Raven, just for laughs. The IB curriculum exposed us to things from Africa and Latin America, Canada and India. We heard Beowulf told in the original Old English. When someone asked how Shakespeare was relevant, a teacher dug up a VERY entertaining and funny lecture from a college professor who went around telling students exactly how much of culture was changed by The Bard. It was eye-opening. It was educational. I lapped it up.
That's how teaching should be.
We acted scenes of books and poems out in the classrooms. We dressed in costumes. My senior prof likened Keats to a chocolate raspberry cake, so I made one and we ate it while we discussed The Eve of St. Agnes. We had debates about Hamlet and Jane Eyre. We listened to sexy recitations of Neruda's poetry in both Spanish and English. We discussed the bleakness of war and shell shock and existentialism before reading Eliot. There were contests for memorization. We saw the Simpson's version of the Raven, just for laughs. The IB curriculum exposed us to things from Africa and Latin America, Canada and India. We heard Beowulf told in the original Old English. When someone asked how Shakespeare was relevant, a teacher dug up a VERY entertaining and funny lecture from a college professor who went around telling students exactly how much of culture was changed by The Bard. It was eye-opening. It was educational. I lapped it up.
That's how teaching should be.
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