#(Don't get me wrong - the Aeneid is good - but given the needs of the kids this year I think it would be bad timing and kill the love of

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#Huzzah! I had some emails and phone call with my program director and I talked her into switching The Aeneid out for Beowulf! #(Don't get me wrong - the Aeneid is good - but given the needs of the kids this year I think it would be bad timing and kill the love of #learning in some of them. We're doing Beowulf instead! Yay! #And I talked them into doing a non-Shakespeare play for theatre #Don't get me wrong - I looooove Shakespeare. Fell in love with him at seven years old when my mom read passages aloud to me #and did many kitchen productions. But again - it's a matter of timing and the small window of rehearsal time we have. There's not #sufficient time to get the kids thriving with Shakespeare's language and characters and in spite of my efforts to make the #rehearsal process welcoming fun and easy - some kids are drowning because they're trying to cope with learning Shakespeare #at the same time as learning theatre skills #we've done Shakespeare the last couple of years and now I've had a good conversation with her about the benefits of doing a play #that's still rich in substance but has more familiar language - even as a single gap year from Shakespeare. And she's on board #And it looks like we will probably do Dicken's 'Nicholas Nickleby' - a story that's extremely dear to my heart and significant to me #I am so happy! #coreander's old books #teacher life