Posted on 06/26/2017 1:25:04 PM PDT by johnk
I mean it's a stretch to write this whole thing off as telling kids to "imagine that they were Lady Macbeth".
I am very happy my children did not go to public school.
Why are we still forcing Shakespeare on kids for more than one class. It’s fun....but I’ve never been asked a question on Shakespeare throughout my entire career. I’m 73.
...and she never said to herself —
“But, soft... Tarry a mo, cousin, and consider the path
you have chosen — that it be well-thought, and not rash!
For such a action is arduous to reverse, should one change
one’s mind only a tiny bit too late...”
I don't see the problem with this. It's an assignment regarding a fictional character and a fictional event. I'd have been more likely to assign an essay, requiring points to be made in logical order with support from the text, but that's just me.
Well, first, we import a gazillion savages from Islamic hell holes.
Then we elect a Muslim as mayor of London.
Third, we don't fight back or even say anything critical.
OH WAIT...That was the suicide note for ENGLAND.
British elites have asked the public to do the same with massive Islamic colonization.
Love you lots,
Lady MacBeth
Popular assignment with the mobammaden students.
You beat me to it. My thought was what if many of the students wrote murder-suicide notes involving the teacher. Would police and psychiatrists be called or would the principal realize it was a thumb in the eye of an idiot teacher?
I have a box of school stuff of mine from the 70’s - lots of creative writing, etc.
One story is about a guy killing himself. Today I would probably get investigated. I recall the teacher wrote something like “Very touching - it made me cry.”
Then there was the magazine we had to do - but as if it were in Victorian times. Mine was the “Gentlemen’s Field and Sports” - fishing and hunting stories.
The hunting story was set in Ireland, hunting for the elusive “rug rat”. (A play on “A Modest Proposal” by Swift.)
Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why, then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?--Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.
I think it’s a new way of getting into controversial subjects with young children. All in the name of literary research of course.
Just like The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park adaptation which includes the shooting of Donald Trump.
We are led to believe this is acceptable because of Shakespeare. If you disagree you are uncultured.
We all know they had pistols in the 1600’s.
Right...
The U.K. Has already made them write a suicide note by bringing in millions of muzzies.
Stupid exercise. No matter how described. Do these students even understand Macbeth?
Why are we still forcing Shakespeare on kids for more than one class. Its fun....but Ive never been asked a question on Shakespeare throughout my entire career. Im 73.
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Clearly you don’t watch Jeopardy.
Shakespeare is always a good read. It makes for a well rounded human being. There are lots of things I learned at school that I have not been asked about. Didn’t hurt me to learn it and most always gave me perspective
If you want to do Lit in college....fine...go for it.
Sincerely
UK
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