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Location: Tulsa, Ok | While we are at it, why don't we quit teaching math. After all we all have calculators available. |
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Location: Mississippi | I am an English teacher. I love teaching Shakespeare! It is so much fun, and it can be incorporated into so many things. You see references to his works throughout your educational career. I hear the same thing from my students, and it really is disheartening. I think that you need to have an open mind about it. It really is beautiful to read. There are several versions of it that I have incorporated for my students. For example, the movie Warm Bodies is Romeo and Juliet. There is also a more modern version in print. Being an AP student, you should mention this to teachers, and then cross reference the similarities and differences. I am sure your teachers would be thrilled to see you so involved and fascinated with it. I also think that other students probably feed off of you, and if you showed an interest, then maybe you could start a great discussion over it. |
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Location: Kentucky | CorinthCowgirl - 2013-12-19 9:44 AM I am an English teacher. I love teaching Shakespeare! It is so much fun, and it can be incorporated into so many things. You see references to his works throughout your educational career. I hear the same thing from my students, and it really is disheartening. I think that you need to have an open mind about it. It really is beautiful to read. There are several versions of it that I have incorporated for my students. For example, the movie Warm Bodies is Romeo and Juliet. There is also a more modern version in print. Being an AP student, you should mention this to teachers, and then cross reference the similarities and differences. I am sure your teachers would be thrilled to see you so involved and fascinated with it. I also think that other students probably feed off of you, and if you showed an interest, then maybe you could start a great discussion over it.
10 Things I Hate About You is adapted from The Taming of the Shrew. |
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| Shakespeare is a window into humanity. Love, hate, humor, and what has always stood out to me, wry humor in the depths of despair. Political maneuvering, loyalty, betrayal, mass miscommunication, how assumptions can kill people, and how entertainment can be used against an entire populace. Buy Anonymous, the movie. It will illustrate what the plays written were used for, and what was going on in England when they were released. Very cool conspiracy theory, and I think probably very accurate.
I think that without introduction to language, and how language affects our emotion, which can be used for good or ill, our society is screwed. |
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Location: Texas | When I was teaching I would get asked questions like this all the time. I taught science so it wasn't about shakespeare, but it was constantly, why do we need to learn this? whats the point of this?
I would be disappointed if they quit teaching shakespeare in schools. It's just one of those things in order to be a well rounded educated human being. |
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Location: In a happy place | classicpotatochip - 2013-12-19 7:46 AM Shakespeare is a window into humanity. Love, hate, humor, and what has always stood out to me, wry humor in the depths of despair. Political maneuvering, loyalty, betrayal, mass miscommunication, how assumptions can kill people, and how entertainment can be used against an entire populace. Buy Anonymous, the movie. It will illustrate what the plays written were used for, and what was going on in England when they were released. Very cool conspiracy theory, and I think probably very accurate. I think that without introduction to language, and how language affects our emotion, which can be used for good or ill, our society is screwed.
Well said. People seem to forget nowdays that you always need to be trying to expand your mind. |
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Location: Four Corners Colorado | I think Shakespeare is worth learning however I think they need to include more basic writing skill, grammar and comp in these classes. I took the basic English 1,2,3,4 in high school and I loved it, but it still left my basic writing skills lacking. I never felt we practiced enough to master them. Whenever I need to write a paper now I still end up feeling lost
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | JazzyGirl - 2013-12-18 9:34 PM Why do we still teach history?
We don't. |
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Location: Bastrop, Texas | We've all met the man/woman who, right from the start, was almost paranoid and suspicious of everyone and everything.
Shakespeare summed it up another way: "A guilty mind is always haunted by suspicion".
We can all learn from Shakespeare's cleverness and economy of words. He was brilliant....a genius with endless wit, imagination, and humor.
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Location: 'Hawk Country | When I get questions like this and students say they will never use it in life, I tell them that every classroom is a different exercise for their brain. Every subject is teaching them to think and build their brain power. All the other subject areas make you better in the area you are interested in.
I can honestly say I have not used Calc since I left that class. How crazy is it to have a problem take up 2 pages of paper, but you dang sure learn how to pay attention to detail and concentrate. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | equussynergy - 2013-12-19 9:29 AM
I think Shakespeare is worth learning however I think they need to include more basic writing skill, grammar and comp in these classes. I took the basic English 1,2,3,4 in high school and I loved it, but it still left my basic writing skills lacking. I never felt we practiced enough to master them. Whenever I need to write a paper now I still end up feeling lost
You're supposed to learn the basics in grades 1-8. And then learn to understand and appreciate literature and compose your own stories 9-12 and on into college. |
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| SC Wrangler - 2013-12-19 8:53 AM
While we are at it, why don't we quit teaching math. After all we all have calculators available.
Unfortunately we basically have….
Our education system needs a major over haul. I hope the next administration we get in the white house wants to change more than our lunch menus.
-sincerely one teacher whose had enough of this common core bull! |
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Location: Dubach, LA | jaydenw - 2013-12-18 9:18 PM I know this is waayy off topic, but I'm genuinely curious. Why do they still feel it is necessary for us to read Shakespeare in high school? IMO, I find Shakespeare very hard to understand and get the meaning out of (Coming from an AP student on the honor roll). Why is it still relevant? I know that the main ideas about what he writes about can still be seen today for the most part, but why can't we use another form of literature, at least in a language that is closer to what we are used to reading. I'm curious what everyone else's thoughts are? Please share!
How can you complain about Shakespeare after you started the year with Beowulf and moved right into The Canterbury Tales? Shakespeare should be easy. After all, he wrote in Modern English. (Beowulf is Old English) |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | astreakinchic - 2013-12-19 12:10 PM SC Wrangler - 2013-12-19 8:53 AM While we are at it, why don't we quit teaching math. After all we all have calculators available. Unfortunately we basically have…. Our education system needs a major over haul. I hope the next administration we get in the white house wants to change more than our lunch menus. -sincerely one teacher whose had enough of this common core bull!
Oh crap, have you not heard about Common Core?! |
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