Yes, Nora, I'm looking at you.
Guess again.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Yes, Nora, I'm looking at you.
Guess again.
especially for 4-6th graders?
Midsummer's Night's Dream? It's fairly light but might be too obscure.
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."
Midsummer's Night's Dream? It's fairly light but might be too obscure.
Puck is fun, and so are the Rude Mechanicals.
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!"
I agree with Midsummer Night's Dream as a good starter for that age.
Everybody loves a guy in a donkey head
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.
The comedies play funnier than they read.
From the sublime (Shakespeare) to the ridiculous (remakes) -- the remake of Psycho is on SciFi and it is beyond pointless. It really is the same exact movie, shot for shot. What the hell? Why bother?