Ides of March

I had a premonition that the storms of winter and the chill of the gray days were not behind us.
This weekend, the second half of my gutter fell off my roof.
Today, on the 15th of March, my dog caught a rabbit, ate half of it and brought me the tail end.
Tonight it snowed us into the history books and my furnace chose to have a piece of it go kaput!

But, tomorrow.....Oh Tomorrow; my students begin there performances and turn in their promptbooks! Calpurnia will be ignored, Portia will swallow coals, Ophelia will be misunderstood, and Gertrude will find out too much, too late!

Julius Caesar Act III-V and Hamlet Act III-V! I prime the pump with giving the students reading/grammar/vocab questions, history, and language for the first two acts. After their feet are wet and then defenses down, I make them own the last three (own: learn their scenes and teach them though performance to the others, who will take notes and ask  them questions).

Can't wait to see them in their costumes, with props, projected scenery, video clips of the play-within-the-play in Hamlet,  on the horses of the two triumvirates in a Roman civil war and Ophelia singing...

Tomorrow the Erik will come and fix my furnace with the part he has in his van, while I sit at my desk, rubrics in hand and enjoy seeing the Ides of March played out during three different periods!

Good night, Soothsayers and Gentle Women, G'night!