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Ok, I'm about to head off to school, yes it's Saturday (dies Saturni) but I have too much to do. I wanted to get as much done this a.m. and spend the afternoon with my family.
It's been a good morning online. A peak at the Latinteach digest showed me that for Ecce I have all of Joan J.'s online stuff at my fingertips! That's nice.
And then I was thinking about my Shakespeare stuff. I'm going to do Merchant of Venice before the other 2 sophomore English teachers do it (too many kids to do it all at once). Anyway, I was commenting in an email to a friend that I so like the Shakespeare stuff I've got up on my walls from 20 years ago when I lived in London. You see, after my very first year of teaching I ran away screaming. Really. I had taken full loads of course work at UT for the last two years, including summers, and went straight into teaching. I had 3 course levels, split level classes, and I created EVERYTHING FROM SCRATCH. What a fool.
Let me repeat that part for new teachers: WHAT A FOOL. Oh yes, as soon as I get myself grounded in all that must be turned in this week at school I'm going to get my act together and ask the Ecce teachers on the Ecce list for materials. I'm not shy. And I'm not stupid. People love to send you stuff. And you don't have to use it, ya know? And that will help me with the Latin 2 and Latin 3 classes.
But back to Shakespeare. So I started thinking about my Hollar Long View of London. This was made in the 1630s (published later) and was done with such accuracy that people in recent decades were able to use it to determine where to dig to find the real Globe theatre. And they did find it, and I was in London doing some volunteer work for the Shakespeare Globe Centre at the time when the press conference was held and SOMEWHERE (oh gawd, where?) I have my PRESS FOLDER. But the long view....it has Latin on it, some of it with late Latin abbreviations and verbage I'm not accustomed to and so I was surfing around to see if someone else had posted a translation of it before or could at least explain Trinobantes to me (I'm sure someone can--is it the river god of the Thames? I need to ask a medievalist, probably.) ANYWAY. So I find these neat sites on the Globe and I'm getting all excited because I do love this stuff. why o why I don't know.
But I'm really digressing. How did this relate to my full load my first year of teaching? Why, I ran away to London to write a novel set in Shakespeare's London, centered around the Middle Temple Inn of Court. So I did research at Guild Hall and have these really cool prints that stretch 7 feet wide, etc.
And I got this idea: WHEN I'm doing Merchant of Venice, maybe I'll rearrange the room (it's a tight fit already) to be like the Globe, and maybe I'll act like a town cryer one day, maybe a man of the cloth the next standing at the door preaching the evils of going in (like in Shakespeare in Love), maybe I'll make some of the students stand like groundlings, I don't know.
Point: I want to make it more of an experience.
Somehow.
Right. I need to get to school. What a loon I am.
Now, I still need to find out about Trinobantes...
(I THOUGHT I POSTED THIS AT 6 a.m.!!!)
It's been a good morning online. A peak at the Latinteach digest showed me that for Ecce I have all of Joan J.'s online stuff at my fingertips! That's nice.
And then I was thinking about my Shakespeare stuff. I'm going to do Merchant of Venice before the other 2 sophomore English teachers do it (too many kids to do it all at once). Anyway, I was commenting in an email to a friend that I so like the Shakespeare stuff I've got up on my walls from 20 years ago when I lived in London. You see, after my very first year of teaching I ran away screaming. Really. I had taken full loads of course work at UT for the last two years, including summers, and went straight into teaching. I had 3 course levels, split level classes, and I created EVERYTHING FROM SCRATCH. What a fool.
Let me repeat that part for new teachers: WHAT A FOOL. Oh yes, as soon as I get myself grounded in all that must be turned in this week at school I'm going to get my act together and ask the Ecce teachers on the Ecce list for materials. I'm not shy. And I'm not stupid. People love to send you stuff. And you don't have to use it, ya know? And that will help me with the Latin 2 and Latin 3 classes.
But back to Shakespeare. So I started thinking about my Hollar Long View of London. This was made in the 1630s (published later) and was done with such accuracy that people in recent decades were able to use it to determine where to dig to find the real Globe theatre. And they did find it, and I was in London doing some volunteer work for the Shakespeare Globe Centre at the time when the press conference was held and SOMEWHERE (oh gawd, where?) I have my PRESS FOLDER. But the long view....it has Latin on it, some of it with late Latin abbreviations and verbage I'm not accustomed to and so I was surfing around to see if someone else had posted a translation of it before or could at least explain Trinobantes to me (I'm sure someone can--is it the river god of the Thames? I need to ask a medievalist, probably.) ANYWAY. So I find these neat sites on the Globe and I'm getting all excited because I do love this stuff. why o why I don't know.
But I'm really digressing. How did this relate to my full load my first year of teaching? Why, I ran away to London to write a novel set in Shakespeare's London, centered around the Middle Temple Inn of Court. So I did research at Guild Hall and have these really cool prints that stretch 7 feet wide, etc.
And I got this idea: WHEN I'm doing Merchant of Venice, maybe I'll rearrange the room (it's a tight fit already) to be like the Globe, and maybe I'll act like a town cryer one day, maybe a man of the cloth the next standing at the door preaching the evils of going in (like in Shakespeare in Love), maybe I'll make some of the students stand like groundlings, I don't know.
Point: I want to make it more of an experience.
Somehow.
Right. I need to get to school. What a loon I am.
Now, I still need to find out about Trinobantes...
(I THOUGHT I POSTED THIS AT 6 a.m.!!!)
