Shakespeare!
We’re are about to start a new chapter in Isaiah, and I prefer to do that at the beginning of a new week. So today I’m putting in a word for The Bard.
Now, I’m fully aware and sympathetic that some of you feel the same way about Shakespeare as I feel about football 🙂 Just NO! I get that. I have about 15 students in my class right now, studying The Merchant of Venice. Not all of them love it. In fact, I’m pretty sure a couple of them hate it, but they’re too polite to say so.
Understandable.
However, I found a website that gives a side-by-side interpretation in modern English, and I’m going to share that with the class today.
If you’re interested, it’s nfs.sparknotes.com/merchant.
I think it will be helpful, and maybe even strike a tiny flame of interest for the incredible stories Shakespeare penned. I hope so.
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Yay Shakespeare! Huge fan of the Bard myself. Probably no surprise that I was the weird kid in English who loved when we studied him and when we did poetry!
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Me too, Ronnie. I started reading Shakespeare and other classics way before I was old enough to understand it all, but I’ve always loved the classics.
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My Spanish teenage students read an abridged and adapted version. They had a hard time understanding or liking it at first, I found watching the film version in which Al Pacino plays Shylock helped enormously both in their understanding and motivation. A picture often paints a thousand words.
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I have encouraged the kids to find a You Tube of the movie. Some have watched it, and you’re right. It does help them understand.
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It’s also a great movie:)
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