tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934096967055481899.post6472415053467181757..comments2024-03-04T11:22:53.502-05:00Comments on Fifty Books Project 2023: "Romeo and Juliet—a play about children—is full of terrible, deeply childish ideas about love."Fifty Books Projecthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08640286429668778869noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934096967055481899.post-65824009196411481142013-04-15T11:47:15.996-04:002013-04-15T11:47:15.996-04:00Honestly, I don't have any. I only taught it ...Honestly, I don't have any. I only taught it once and I wasn't particularly successful.Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12500451355263180972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-934096967055481899.post-75651700174560675162013-04-13T17:10:31.365-04:002013-04-13T17:10:31.365-04:00I will be teaching freshman for the first time in ...I will be teaching freshman for the first time in my life next year which means....Romeo and Juliet! I will also be in an interesting place where I will be teaching a good number of students who are theater nerds as it's a performing arts high school. While I'm excited to be working with freshmen, I am not stoked on the classic freshmen pieces of literature (the classes I observed were doing Romeo and Juliet and To Kill a Mockingbird). I would *love* to hear your thoughts on making it fresh. I took my kids this year to see Romeo and Juliet on stage and they loved it, but I think that they probably loved it because they were seniors who had already tackled Hamlet, so their Shakespeare language ability was pretty high, they had already been exposed to Romeo and Juliet in some fashion in their high school career so the plot was familiar, and we weren't crazily over-analyzing it, we just enjoyed it as a live-action-movie and moved on with our lives. What's your approach for making R and J fresh?<br />Brittanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11505849394031450120noreply@blogger.com