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17503254 No.17503254 [Reply] [Original]

Did anyone else dislike Shakespeare for several years because your first experience with his work was in an English class where each student was assigned to read out the lines for a different part? Shit was the worst.
>Student A: *reads line with no delivery*
>10 second gap
>teacher: who plays Cordelia? It's your turn to read
>student B: Oh where were we at again? *reads line*
>teacher: okay, *drawn out explanation of what just happened in the play*
yes, this is really how American schools teach Shakespeare

>> No.17503270
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17503270

>>17503254
I had to say the line with "niggard" in Hamlet and the black kid got mad at me

>> No.17503435

>>17503254
He is a talentless *nglo

>> No.17503586

>>17503254
Are all American schools really that bad? Where I live there would be maybe one or two kids who didn't know where they were up to, or how to pronounce a word, but they would fix that mistake after the first time for the most part and we would continue reading normally.

>> No.17503592

>>17503270
I would have had a laugh with my black friends if I had to. I wish I could read Hamlet just for that fun experience.

>> No.17503612

>>17503270
/r/thathappened

>> No.17503613

>>17503254
At my school we were forced to listen to incredibly dry audiotape instead, letting whole scenes play with 0 pause for commentary. The teacher called my parents because I fell asleep for a few minutes during this once. I would have taken reading the lines out loud over this any fucking day.

>> No.17503646

>>17503586
It's less retardation, although there is certainly a degree of retardation, and more resentment/apathy. They're not even paying attention in class. This type of shit is done for group engagement but ends up having the opposite effect for as long as it is not my turn to read, I don't actually have to pay attention, and why would I want to?, it wasn't my idea to do this anyways.

They're like wojaks standing in the corner of a party.

>> No.17503654

>>17503254
In my high school AP English class we read Julius Caesar and acted out the death scenes

>> No.17503659

>>17503254
We didn't even read Shakespeare