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Originally Posted by DuskyRose
It really varied. My Romeo and Juliet reading, IIRC, was to read the summary of the story first, then read the book ourselves and be ready to discuss it in class. Then as a class go over the translation in class so we could ask questions about word and phrase usage. At the end of that, when the teacher knew that everyone had caught up, we talked about the history of the time, the politics, the society, what parts of the story were the most important, the build-up to the tragic ending... (Back to the English class stuff). Then a few months later we were all bussed to the local theater to see the play done by high school students, with 'tweaks' to make it more relevant.
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I think I might have appreciated Shakespeare (or any other author from well before my own time) more if I had a teacher who put in that much effort.