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Two households, both alike in dignity

Another school year has finished and as always, we watched the 1996 Romeo and Juliet in my English classes because I love that movie so much. We either study the play in class and watch the film as an example of creative reinterpretation, or we watch it as an end-of-year treat if Romeo and JulietContinue reading “Two households, both alike in dignity”

Civil blood and uncivil hands

One perk to being a teacher, occasionally students posit ideas that are simply mind-blowing. Ideas that force a complete re-evaluation of precious assumptions. The students almost never realize the magnitude of these eureka moments because their ideas seem normal to them. It is almost always the teacher that does a double take; especially if theContinue reading “Civil blood and uncivil hands”