Teaching Shakespeare: "Romeo and Juliet," William Shakespeare

Teaching: Romeo and JulietShopify“Romeo and Juliet” 12,983 words; some visualsMy Review: Teaching Romeo and JulietSome History: In the 1980s and 1990s in Jefferson County, Colorado, a cursed socio/emotional/medical problem raised its ugly head—ten suicides at 2 different schools. In the 1980s, I taught English Language Arts to 12th graders at Alameda High School. During one school year, we lost 10 of our students to suicide and suicidal acts. One tragedy was in the school’s parking lot, another involved a car full of teen-aged girls and a car driven by a drunken boy. All were killed in an ugly crash on a side-street in the neighborhood. The incident that most affect me, my captain, all-star soccer player, took his life one day before the season ended. The school was on hyper alert for the sting of funerals and the reasons why they happened. Amazingly, no one objected to the teaching of “Romeo and Juliet” as part of the school curriculum. After transferring to another close Lakewood Hi