21 - a midsummer night's dream

i FINALLY got to teach this play.  last year i had to teach romeo and juliet, which is probably my least favorite of shakespeare's plays . . . not that i don't love it, i just have a few others i would much rather share with my kiddos.   AMSND is one of them.  i owe my love of will to linda batty - my junior high english teacher.  it had been years since i'd actually read this play, but i had great flashbacks to good ol' WRJH during my month with this text.  (in particular, i remember us all turning the desks upside down and sitting on the floor to trick batty.  the teacher next door was NOT amused.)  nowhere in my mind do i think i did it the service that batty did, but maybe someday.  i'm hoping one of the outdoor shakespeare companies is performing it this summer.  i've never gotten to see it outside and would LOVE to.

not a lot of time for pleasure reading lately.  a lot of AP/GT curriculum reading, though.  that's always fun.