Shakespeare Class!  What I learned:

1.      Ladies:  You do NOT need a man to be smart and powerful—look at Queen Elizabeth…she had an entire era named after her!  So gentlemen…go make your own gosh dang sandwiches.

2.      Teenage boys (and Mr. Shakespeare) have highly misguided and corrupt thoughts.  In other words, they are PERVERTED.  I heard a lot of things I rather would not have but oh well I guess I had to learn sometime.

3.      I am now familiar with the sound of a good percentage of the senior class’s laughs, since every day of class seemed to turn into Comedy Central.  Gut laughing is a good feeling, which I had a lot of throughout the semester.

4.      Crazy = you are going to die.  So the lesson is:  Do not be crazy like Charlie Sheen…he is probably going to die soon…maybe even more than once.

5.      Dance parties, repulsive Elizabethan food, recitations= nightmare, and a whole lot of epic new lingo!  Our dance party was legendary but I definitely wish we could dance like they did in the Elizabethan era.  Definitely did not know you could get drunk off of vanilla, put beer in cupcakes, or orange peels in pies. I apparently haven’t changed much since 7^th grade when Mrs. Cowen made everyone turn around for my speech.  I should probably work on that.  And I must say…our class had some seriously awesome quotes throughout the semester.  They should probably go on brainyquotes.com! 

6.      I love Shakespeare!  I came in not understanding Shakespearean gibberish at all and I am exiting the class a whole lot less confused.  It is not as hard when we all put our minds together and look below the surface and all that profanity.  I wonder if they really spoke like that back then.  It is kind of amazing all the different ways Shakespeare’s masterpieces can be interpreted.  He is one of the most iconic writers of all time and I am proud to say I got through some of his most famous works.  Twelfth Night is still my favorite but I would love to read more of his pieces for sure! 

7.      Blogging is the BEST!  I was seriously worried when you first told us we were going to have to journal and post them for everyone to see but I am definitely a fan of blogging now.  The genre sheet was my savior and it was so exciting to add new elements to writing instead of writing 500 mundane essays.  So thank you for introducing us to the world of blogging!

8.      I loved English before and I love it even more now.  English has always been my favorite subject and Shakespeare class did not change anything.  This class made me a little more outgoing with writing and the projects were all so enjoyable and I learned how to do so many things for assignments during this class.  I even learned how to stretch music across power point slides for one of my blogs …which I had been trying to accomplish for about a year!

9.      Miss Perkins.  You are a very awesome and vivacious teacher which makes learning so much easier.  I looked forward to Shakespeare class every single day and am sad to see it come to an end.  This class will be greatly missed.  I wish I had one of your classes next semester but it was wonderful getting to know you and it will be fun to be your aid next semester! J

Finally:  “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”  Everything about this class was full of GREATNESS!  All my classmates are their own kind of great and we had many great moments, great projects, great laughs, great ideas, and great memories together.  It was so great to learn more about everyone while studying the great William Shakespeare!