Category Archives: shakespeare

What happens with Shakespeare collides with the real world?

Posted on February 15, 2017 by forstegrupp

The new semester started two weeks ago. The eleventh grade began Hamlet. They always face Shakespeare with trepidation: the language, the syntax, the allusions, the vague pronouns, the metaphors, the similes. It all gets so overwhelming. But this year something … Continue reading →

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How does a teacher keep students interested before spring break?

Posted on March 20, 2015 by forstegrupp

Yesterday was a post about technology learning. Today is a post about atechnology learning. Sometimes the students and I need to get away from the computers and instead of creating something in the cloud, create something tactile. And I needed … Continue reading →

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Why do we always teach the tragedies in high school?

Posted on March 18, 2015 by forstegrupp

I am teaching a group of seniors and juniors about Shakespeare’s Comedies. In my last two jobs, the students only read the tragedies unless they elected to take a senior English elective. Yes, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Othello are … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Ian McKellen’s "Acting Shakespeare"

Posted on August 27, 2010 by forstegrupp

In 1982, Ian McKellen entertained a live audience for 1 hour and 26 minutes performing select speeches from various Shakespeare plays: Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Henry V, MacBeth, Tempest, King Lear. I was particularly … Continue reading →

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