This past year I integrated a "Shakespeare and the movies" unit into my Intro to Drama class.

One of my favorite courses in college was "Shakespeare In Film". We ended with Ran, but it truly ran the gamut. It was great.

It would be amazing if the school would let me develop the unit into a Shakespeare class. I seriously doubt it though. Somehow it wouldn't help them achieve their "AYP" or raise the school grade.

I don't remember when we read what, but I remember reading Lear, Caesar, and Othello in high school. Oddly enough, no R&J or Hamlet. I took Shakespeare in college though, so I more than made up for it there.

Waiting for Godot

I played Estragon in that. Good times.

Somehow it wouldn't help them achieve their "AYP" or raise the school grade.

Actually, it totally would. You would be meeting a ton of literature and writing standards and it would help raise both reading comprehension and writing scores. I bet if you spin it that way, they'd be more open to it.

I remember now -- R&J freshman year, Taming of the Shrew sophomor year, Macbeth junior year, and Hamlet senior year.

I had to be physically restrained from leaving the Mel Gibson Hamlet. We were all sitting there, sighing at a broody, wet Mel Gibson at the funeral, when suddenly it occurred to me - wait, he can't be at the funeral. That's the whole freaking point, that he wasn't there and his uncle usurped the throne!! This was whispered furiously and at rather a high volume for a whisper. There was murmuring, then the everyone else settled down to watch the pretty. I seethed.

The only thing that they care about is money.

Vortex, at this realization, it would become for me something akin to a moral imperative to have their stipends reduced, PITA paperwork or no. They NEED to lose something they value over it. It's too bad you would not be able to get the money for yourself and then flaunt it in their general direction.

One of those other bands is Fair to Midland, who have a bit of a following.

As for Shakespeare, our school, some of the 9th grade classes did R&J, but the one I happened to be in, did not. Not that I mind, as I never have had any use for teen movies, I don't care who wrote 'em. Sorry Billy, not even you. 10th grade was Ceasar, which was interesting to read but killer to write about. 11th grade we got various sonnets, the Scottish Play, and Hamlet. 12th is when things got interesting. The AP class got Lear, Othello, and several of the comedies.

The outfit would look ridiculous.

I swear, MM, you make me want to laugh until I cry, but that wouldn't fly well at work.

help me....