….I have heard it said,
that guilty creatures sitting at a play
have, by the very cunning of the scene
been driven to declare their malefactions.
that guilty creatures sitting at a play
have, by the very cunning of the scene
been driven to declare their malefactions.
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Shakespeare’s HamletThere’s something not right in the hallways and classrooms. I don’t want to talk about it openly yet, but will soon.
Consider this a preview: My students heard a story from my own (miserable) high school years that was not easy to tell. It took 30 minutes, I blush to admit (but then, I’m re-reading Frank McCourt’s Teacher Man, and don’t feel so bad). But I was only a bad, self-indulgent windbag North by Northwest. I had my reasons.
I recorded the story on my Mac while telling it. Uploaded the mp3 to our Moodle. Told them to blog on this basic question: “Why did I tell you this story? What connections can you make to your own high school story?”
If it makes a difference, this story, and “captures any consciences” in our mean hallways, it will be mostly due to the read-write web.
More later?
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