TAKE MY CLASS, DARN IT!
K. I can only teach Shakespeare if we get 10 people to sign up. SO THIS MEANS YOU! If I can't teach Shakespeare next year and have to teach another crappy English 10 class instead I will never forgive the Hobbits and will give you all F's when you're in my AP class in 12th grade. You need to talk it up, just enough so we can get 10 people (so far, we have six). It is NOT going to be hard. It is going to be fun and dramatic and silly. We are going to rewrite Shakespeare (like in the O. skits with puppets and ghetto Othello) and we are going to watch lots of movies. If we write, it will be group projects and stuff. There will be almost no homework and FUN research projects. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make it so I can teach this class. Ryan, if you want to do anything dramatic with your life, this is way more important than Journalism. Lauryn, EMT?????? Didn't you tell me last year that you wanted to teach English someday? Hmmmm, which would be more important to an English teacher? Stinkin' EMT or Shakespeare?????? Aaron, you'll be a senior - tell a few choice interesting people to take it. Scott, fail, so you can come back and be in my Shakespeare class (hey, maybe I could help out with that!) Ruthlyn, I'm going to change your recommendation to Pine whatever so they reject you, so you'll have to take it too. See, here's the deal. SOL's are not fun. They dictate what you have to teach, and sometimes those are boring things. Shakespeare, however, is an elective. THIS MEANS THAT I DON'T HAVE TO FOLLOW THE RULES! I DON'T HAVE TO TEACH THE SOL'S! I guess you wouldn't see how appealing that is unless you're an English teacher, but it's really pretty great. Anyway, what meant to be an nice happy advertisement for my completely cool class turned into a threat session, but I'm sure you understand. It really is going to be fun. And I made a beautiful flyer that says how neat it is, so pass 'em around, okay?