This year marked my 12th year teaching and my 9th in AP. As I began to look at my plans last summer, I realized I needed a change in my Shakespeare unit. I’ve been a firm Hamlet supporter for the past 11 years and taught it to every level that exists in the 12th grade. I wondered if I was growing bored with our favorite angsty teen, and I even considered straying from the work altogether, thinking I’d exhausted all teaching avenues. Then I remembered back to conversations I had with fellow AP Lit readers this past summer in Kansas City – I recalled that several of them said they read Shakespeare with their kids, in the classroom. I polled the AP Literature Facebook group about this idea, and to my surprise, a LOT of teachers do this thing that I thought was so taboo – to read a whole work aloud with AP ... KEEP READING
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