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I think it's a theater thing

Yes, we had to read it and also act it out with sock puppets

You guys had to act out Shakespeare?

We didn't start doing Shakespeare until grade 10. We read Julius Caesar and we had to just sit quietly at our desks and read it like it was a novel. Pretty sure this is the worst way you could introduce Shakespeare's writing, especially since for a lot of us (including myself at the time) it was our first time reading through a Shakespeare play. I literally had no idea what was going on at any point. At one point I asked my teacher to proof read a paragraph that we had to write and he started reading it and was just like "um… that's not what happened."

Although, this was also the same teacher who assigned us the book Hiroshima and then made us write a paragraph about the "symbolism." IT'S 👏 NON 👏FICTION 👏 THERE👏 IS👏 NO👏 SYMBOLISM 👏

Man, I wish we had gotten to actually read Julius Caesar. It was part of the curriculum but she always took too long with it so we just had to read her summary. The first we ever read was Romeo and Juliet and boy am I upset about how it was taught but that's a whole other rant

Why tf did you censor Macbeth lmao?

Because it's a fucking curse

Yes, we had to read it and also act it out with sock puppets

You guys had to act out Shakespeare?

We didn't start doing Shakespeare until grade 10. We read Julius Caesar and we had to just sit quietly at our desks and read it like it was a novel. Pretty sure this is the worst way you could introduce Shakespeare's writing, especially since for a lot of us (including myself at the time) it was our first time reading through a Shakespeare play. I literally had no idea what was going on at any point. At one point I asked my teacher to proof read a paragraph that we had to write and he started reading it and was just like "um… that's not what happened."

Although, this was also the same teacher who assigned us the book Hiroshima and then made us write a paragraph about the "symbolism." IT'S 👏 NON 👏FICTION 👏 THERE👏 IS👏 NO👏 SYMBOLISM 👏

Yeah, we did Hamlet with sock puppets, R+J we read aloud, and since I did M*cbeth online I did it on my own, but I'll be doing it again this year. It's not meant to be read silently, it's meant to be seen or read aloud. Even when I'm just working on scansion for my lines (I'm in Love's Labours Lost right now) I read them aloud. Also JC is a horrible one to start with for students, start with M-cbeth or Much Ado or Romeo and Juliet!

Ewwwwww my teachers kept trying to have us look for symbolism in Night.

I approve of assigned reading actually.

Most people don't realize the content that they are absorbing (culture/knowledge/etc) until later on. I hated reading R&J, Crime and Punishment, Jane Eyre, Shogun, etc in school but realized later on in college and high learning classes (my own life) that I could really understand the human psyche a lot more given deeper thought.

I'll admit that teenagers hate it mostly because it's assigned.

I like assigned reading when the teachers help, but I've had some who just toss books to the kids and provide no insight to what they're reading. To someone in early high school with no former experience, Elizabethan English is like a whole new language. I'd read 4 Shakespeare plays for school prior to going to a Shakespearean acting camp for teens and not once in school did we dissect the text and use scansion.

Yes, we had to read it and also act it out with sock puppets

You guys had to act out Shakespeare?

We didn't start doing Shakespeare until grade 10. We read Julius Caesar and we had to just sit quietly at our desks and read it like it was a novel. Pretty sure this is the worst way you could introduce Shakespeare's writing, especially since for a lot of us (including myself at the time) it was our first time reading through a Shakespeare play. I literally had no idea what was going on at any point. At one point I asked my teacher to proof read a paragraph that we had to write and he started reading it and was just like "um… that's not what happened."

Although, this was also the same teacher who assigned us the book Hiroshima and then made us write a paragraph about the "symbolism." IT'S 👏 NON 👏FICTION 👏 THERE👏 IS👏 NO👏 SYMBOLISM 👏

Yeah, we did Hamlet with sock puppets, R+J we read aloud, and since I did M*cbeth online I did it on my own, but I'll be doing it again this year. It's not meant to be read silently, it's meant to be seen or read aloud. Even when I'm just working on scansion for my lines (I'm in Love's Labours Lost right now) I read them aloud. Also JC is a horrible one to start with for students, start with M-cbeth or Much Ado or Romeo and Juliet!

Ewwwwww my teachers kept trying to have us look for symbolism in Night.

We had to act out all of the scenes in the Shakespeare we read with Mr. Howes (9th, 11th, and 12th Grade English Instructor), but honestly the part that was funny was not the acting, it was the way it went down.

In Romeo and Juliet, a guy got the part of Juliet.

In Hamlet, you had theatre kids being more overdramatic than Hamlet himself (or maybe that was just me), we usually got less important characters. Then the main characters would get somebody who either read it in a really deadpan way l, or they'd try, but do something really dumb.

When my class read Julius Caesar we listened to an audio book recording and at one point there is this random guy who was super committed to reading his lines in it so in the middle of this really serious dude reading for Anthony you just her "READ THE WILL!!!!" and it was great,

We read it but we also watched clips from a movie so we could understand it.

And then everybody just called everyone else "Saucy fellow" for about four months.

I was Laertes, and then Mercutio, no one, Romeo, Friar Lawrence, and Juliet in that order.
Also Oberon for school and Montjoy and Hostess Quickly for camp.

We usually would read the book/play (or at least part of it), watch the good version of the movie, then watch the horrible version of the movie.

My 9th grade class watched Gnomeo and Juliet.

that's awful

Gnomeo and Juliet is everything

I watched it one year and I don’t remember anything about it other than bored

Don't watch it.

It's trash

It manages to be the only Shakespeare for kids adaptation that has a similar amount of sex jokes as the original

Gnomeo and Juliet is life

I've seen part of it because it was on once in a waiting room
It was a long time ago and even then I hated it

We are not having a debate about this trash movie.

It’s not worth wasting precious brain cells

Thank you Muffin. I agree

Sherlock Gnomes is art tho, like I genuinely love that movie

I haven’t seen it so I can’t quite comment on that one

……………………………………………………………….enough about the GNOMES

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