Cash, do you have any suggestions for a good "First Shakespeare", especially for 4-6th graders?
eta: or anyone else.
You all gonna be here when I wake up?
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
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DebetEsse - Oct 24, 2006 10:35:32 am PDT #8565 of 10000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Connie Neil - Oct 24, 2006 10:37:07 am PDT #8566 of 10000
brillig
Shaw also thought that sex was icky, and that in the future we'd evolve into perfect beings that wouln't have sex.
Snerk
We got R&J as freshmen in high school, then Julius Caesar as sophomores. Then the wimps went to Mrs. Berryhill for average English class and the ones who thought themselves smart took on Mr. Berryhill, who xeroxed off his own supply of detention slips and had no problem in telling his students they were idiots. His reputation was well known, and you had to request his class. Damn, I loved the man. Hamlet, Macbeth, Merchant of Venice--all read aloud and debated. Plus he made us read The Hobbit.
Laga - Oct 24, 2006 10:37:23 am PDT #8567 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Yes, Nora, I'm looking at you.
Guess again.
Connie Neil - Oct 24, 2006 10:38:42 am PDT #8568 of 10000
brillig
especially for 4-6th graders?
Midsummer's Night's Dream? It's fairly light but might be too obscure.
Sean K - Oct 24, 2006 10:39:03 am PDT #8569 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
She insisted on starting freshmen off with Julius Ceasar. SNOOOORE.
BAH! Julius Ceasar is one of my favorites! Cassius deflating the myth of Ceasar with his story of their swim across the Tiber. The poor, insistent Plebecite coming so close to giving Ceasar the warning note.
"Friends, Romans, coutrymen, lend me your ears. I come to bury Ceasar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."
"If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed; If not, 'tis true this parting was well made."
Sean K - Oct 24, 2006 10:40:12 am PDT #8570 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Midsummer's Night's Dream? It's fairly light but might be too obscure.
Puck is fun, and so are the Rude Mechanicals.
Polter-Cow - Oct 24, 2006 10:44:05 am PDT #8571 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
She insisted on starting freshmen off with Julius Ceasar. SNOOOORE.
But it's fun to point out the glaring anachronisms!
"You mean they had giant clocks in ancient Rome?"
"They sure did!"
Cashmere - Oct 24, 2006 10:47:09 am PDT #8572 of 10000
Now tagless for your comfort.
I agree with Midsummer Night's Dream as a good starter for that age.
Laga - Oct 24, 2006 10:48:42 am PDT #8573 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Everybody loves a guy in a donkey head
Jessica - Oct 24, 2006 10:50:29 am PDT #8574 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I couldn't stand Dream when we read it in 7th grade, and I pretty much still can't. I'm not a huge fan of the comedies in general -- I just don't think they're funny. The comedic bits in the tragedies and history plays are much funnier.