Never has there been a name that strikes fear into the hearts of students like WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
“You mean we have to read Julius Caesar … AGAIN? Uggggghhhhh.”
I was one of those students. There was a point during each school year after about 8th grade or so when I could think of nothing more excruciatingly boring as hearing my English teachers drone on about “Romeo & Juliet” or “Julius Caesar” or “Hamlet”. GAH! “Hamlet”. Pfft. What a schload THAT thing was, right?
Or so I thought.
See, I think most kids’ loathing of Shakespeare comes from having it force-fed by teachers who weren’t taught to love it either. They learned it because they HAD to. This was stuff you memorized because it was “classic”.
Yeah. I felt like that. Until I didn’t. [click to continue…]
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