'Heart Of Gold'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
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.
I swear, MM, you make me want to laugh until I cry, but that wouldn't fly well at work.
help me....
I bet if you spin it that way, they'd be more open to it.
I agree; however, it tends to be a little like "Crazy drama teacher suggested it so, even though she has data to back it up, it automatically is a stupid idea and we won't look into it." I tried to bring back dual-enrollment Humanities this year and they blocked me at every turn.
EARTHQUAKE!
You know, I can't remember if we studied any Shakespeare in high school. We may have, but I barely remember anything we read. Well, other than American Lit, which we seemed to have an awful lot of. I remember House of Seven Gables, Ethan Frome, the Crucible, The Scarlet Letter, some westerns (we had a choice between Big Man, Little Man and something else which I don't remember any more.) Actually, I think we did something in my freshman year, it might have been Merchant of Venice when I think back.