Like Dok Zoom, I was in my first full year of teaching and was by god going to make it through R&J, my least favorite play in the canon, and after promoting an upcoming scene for its "naughty bits," I was stunned to find the textbook had already bowdlerized the shit out of the play. (I recently directed a Midsummer whose cast were mostly teenage ballet dancers — it was incredibly a decent show — and since they weren't "my" kids in my theatre, I couldn't bring myself to point out, "That was a dick joke, guys.") (They did catch on to "I kiss the Wall's hole, not your lips at all.")
Time for parents or students to set up book clubs, and discuss the books themselves. I hesitate to suggest that the teachers should do this outside the classroom; that might turn out to be a capital offense.
I've wrote an entire U.S. History course for my cousin's teenage son just to ensure that he is provided with real U.S. History, warts and all, instead of a watered down version of history that avoids the more difficult incidents.
Well if they are clipping out all the dirty parts then they must be amalgamating them into a play of just dirty parts. I'd like to check that out of library or classroom, please.
If they weren't doing this out of sheer prudery, the impulse to read shorter materials wouldn't be a bad thing. But the prudery ruins the gesture. And besides, we're dealing with plays here -- it's wrong to slice and dice plays, which cry out to be staged (or, failing that, read) in their entirety. I doubt that high-school students enjoy spending huge amounts of time on a few longer texts. I think it better suits their time of life to be introduced to a whole lot of authors and texts -- better prep. for college, where they will do more of the same broad reading, with more depth. (And if they don't go on to college, at least they'll be familiar with a wide range of material.) I would teach poetry for its beautiful and moving qualities and its challenging "compression"; plays for their lively action and deep exploration combined; and fiction for its expansiveness and embrace of life. K-12 students should be introduced to all of this progressively, and encouraged to appreciate the creativity of literary language instead of getting bogged down by too many formalistic, rule-bound considerations.
If they're going to put on plays, I guess they can always do Our Town; doesn't the young wife die in that one (or am I thinking of something else)? They'd be way OK with that.
“But man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he’s most assur’d;
His glassy essence, like an angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven,
As make the angels weep.”
Except for the “angry ape” libulz, sounds just like the two Stooges, Meatball and the Mango Mussolini.
Don't mess with Will!
And 4 or 5 centuries later neither he nor Nick* have missed a trick…
*Macchiavelli
is anybody teaching titus?
cause that shit can lead you down the jacobean rabbit hole which never does anyone any good and i personally wish on the FL lege.
Like Dok Zoom, I was in my first full year of teaching and was by god going to make it through R&J, my least favorite play in the canon, and after promoting an upcoming scene for its "naughty bits," I was stunned to find the textbook had already bowdlerized the shit out of the play. (I recently directed a Midsummer whose cast were mostly teenage ballet dancers — it was incredibly a decent show — and since they weren't "my" kids in my theatre, I couldn't bring myself to point out, "That was a dick joke, guys.") (They did catch on to "I kiss the Wall's hole, not your lips at all.")
Taming Of The Shrew:
Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
Petruchio: My remedy is then, to pluck it out.
Katherine: Ay, if the fool could find where it lies.
Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail.
Katherine: In his tongue.
Petruchio: Whose tongue?
Katherine: Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell.
Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail?
“…the state’s new “Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking, …”
Good lord, they’re actually Being Best! 🤦🏻♀️ Damn Melania plays the long game …
De Santis, how he doth deign to demean the demesnes.
Time for parents or students to set up book clubs, and discuss the books themselves. I hesitate to suggest that the teachers should do this outside the classroom; that might turn out to be a capital offense.
I've wrote an entire U.S. History course for my cousin's teenage son just to ensure that he is provided with real U.S. History, warts and all, instead of a watered down version of history that avoids the more difficult incidents.
You’d think with all the books from black authors Florida has banned, they’d have more time to teach a whole play and not just excerpts.
Hey Florida, expurgate this!
*obscene gesture*
Well if they are clipping out all the dirty parts then they must be amalgamating them into a play of just dirty parts. I'd like to check that out of library or classroom, please.
Lesson plan for English class in Florida: Excerpts from Shakespeare-grade 9
September 12: "Romeo, Romeo!! Wherefore art thou, Romeo?"
September 23: “Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne’er be younger.”
October 5: "Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."
October 19: “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
November 2: “A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!”
November 14: Midterm
November 27:“If music be the food of love, play on.”
December 6: “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.”
December 20: Final
Something is rotten in the state of Florida.
Fuck Ted Cruz.
Oh, Dok. The subtitle. You are the best.
If they weren't doing this out of sheer prudery, the impulse to read shorter materials wouldn't be a bad thing. But the prudery ruins the gesture. And besides, we're dealing with plays here -- it's wrong to slice and dice plays, which cry out to be staged (or, failing that, read) in their entirety. I doubt that high-school students enjoy spending huge amounts of time on a few longer texts. I think it better suits their time of life to be introduced to a whole lot of authors and texts -- better prep. for college, where they will do more of the same broad reading, with more depth. (And if they don't go on to college, at least they'll be familiar with a wide range of material.) I would teach poetry for its beautiful and moving qualities and its challenging "compression"; plays for their lively action and deep exploration combined; and fiction for its expansiveness and embrace of life. K-12 students should be introduced to all of this progressively, and encouraged to appreciate the creativity of literary language instead of getting bogged down by too many formalistic, rule-bound considerations.
If they're going to put on plays, I guess they can always do Our Town; doesn't the young wife die in that one (or am I thinking of something else)? They'd be way OK with that.
“Exeunt”? I prefer “Exit, pursued by a bear.”
Exit is one, Exeunt is errebody
DeSantis in that situation would be a great picture to generate with AI!
In Florida, they will only be able to teach the EXPURGATED version of 'Olsen's Standard Book of British Birds'
The one without the Gannet.