To: Dianna
I find the fact that fourteen/fifteen year olds cannot even skim the surface of a book and even articulate a theme from a book that brodcasts it as loudly as HP very disturbing and speaks very poorly of American culture. I expect most fourteen/ fifteen year olds to be able to understand Shakespeare.
To: Accygirl
I find the fact that fourteen/fifteen year olds cannot even skim the surface of a book and even articulate a theme from a book that brodcasts it as loudly as HP very disturbing and speaks very poorly of American culture. I expect most fourteen/ fifteen year olds to be able to understand Shakespeare. I'm sorry that some teens don't live up to your expectations.
To: Accygirl
I expect most fourteen/ fifteen year olds to be able to understand Shakespeare. Now that is expecting a lot from a 14-year-old. Granted, I don't think that the teachers understand it all very well either. I think that the only play of his that I enjoyed in class was "King Lear" and that was in college with a professor who was a little more passionate about the subject.
On the other hand, I bought my niece a Shakespeare collection for Christmas several years back at the suggestion of her mother. She enjoyed it a lot.
1,473 posted on
07/27/2007 12:25:35 PM PDT by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a Muggle when I married her.)
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