tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27643523.post1408123708079610710..comments2024-03-20T23:54:23.673-07:00Comments on The Great Raven: Now Reading... The Golden Apples Of The Sun by Ray BradburySue Bursztynskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27643523.post-2052981348232161892016-12-03T16:34:32.404-08:002016-12-03T16:34:32.404-08:00Ah, Lexa, clearly you had the wrong teachers! If i...Ah, Lexa, clearly you had the wrong teachers! If it had been taught properly, you would have loved it. My school had a couple of years of visits from the Bell Shakespeare Company(free! It was a program designed for disadvantaged schools) where they got to perform bits of the play they were studying, learn how to do fight scenes, use some of the company's costumes and film. They adored it! Find the TV program "Shakespeare On The Estates" to see what can be done. I still have this memory of Tybalt snarling, "Romeo, you are a wanker!" They got it, completely. <br />I sneaked in an intro to Shakespeare in my Year 8 class, back when we were allowed to show some initiative, and believe me, they enjoyed it. They sat up very straight when they relished how many words and expressions they used every day which came from Shakespeare - and even straighter when they found out the cheeky Elizabethan meaning behind Much Ado about Nothing. I also let them know that in those days of no films, TV or Internet, the theatre was where everyone went - everyone! - and that the theatre was located in a London suburb much like their own working-class area...<br /><br />Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27643523.post-28112071477620796042016-12-03T15:42:28.008-08:002016-12-03T15:42:28.008-08:00I'm a Philistine and hated every Shakespeare p...I'm a Philistine and hated every Shakespeare play I was forced to read in school. The language is really cumbersome for me, and I end up feeling like it's written in code and I have to decipher it, which is too much work for stories that didn't interest me anyway. But I understand that as a teacher, and obviously more appreciative of literary writing and poetry than I am, you'd be disappointed. My fave short stories in school were An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and The Monkey's Paw. I hope you teach those!<br /><br />I will say that the updated version of R&J, "West Side Story," is one of my 3 favorite musicals ("Sound of Music" and "My Fair Lady" being the other 2.)<br /><br />Thanks for dropping by my blog! The cover for Soul Cutter was designed 3 years ago as fan art by a friend who was a professional cover designer and a big fan of my book. She no longer designs and had no time to change the original so the lettering was big enough to see in thumbnail on Amazon, so I bought the images, repeated her design but smaller, and had to do a lot of air-brushing to fill out the sides and top. Here's her original design on my Facebook page from 3 years ago:<br />https://www.facebook.com/504432766289367/photos/a.783435055055802.1073741829.504432766289367/787470421318932/?type=3&theaterAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07735576044552810103noreply@blogger.com