9th Grade: What comes to your mind when you hear the words, "Now we're going to read Shakespeare!" Do you cringe in fear? Do you giggle with glee? What past experiences have you had with Shakespeare to make you react the way you do?



I don't know much about Shakespeare, so i don't really know if i should be afraid of it. But when people say we're going to read Romeo and Juliet, i cringe. I don't like reading romance that is like that. In sixth grade we read a simplified version of it and it was still romantic. I have seen a short version of the play Hamlet I thought it was very good.

I am excited to read the whole play of Hamlet because I enjoyed it very much. I am not so excited to read Shakespeare because the way they talked then was very different, and it's hard to understand. But I think that other then that, I am mostly excited to read it, except for Romeo and Juliet, I'm not to thrilled to read romance like that.

My friend Cierra has told me a lot of good things about other plays that Shakespeare has done, I cant remember the names of them, but she said that they were very good. So I am some what excited to read those ones too. But I don't think I will want to re-enact them in front of the whole class.