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1 Name: Period: ARTICLE 2 Teacher: Why it is ridiculous not to teach Shakespeare in school Reported By Valerie Strauss June 13, 2015 Portrait of Shakespeare. ( Folger Shakespeare Library) I ve been inundated 1 with s from teachers and other Shakespeare lovers yelling about a post published early Saturday (which you can read in ARTICLE 1) by a high school teacher who says she doesn t want to teach the Bard 2 anymore. Why? Because, she said, she doesn t like his work and thinks that there other works of literature from different cultures that speak to the human condition as well as or better than Shakespeare that would be more engaging to students. As you might expect, I ve been called all kinds of names for posting the piece, and the author whose opinion, by the way, is shared by a lot of people in and out of education has been pilloried 3 too. I happen to love Shakespeare, and would be sorry if students were not exposed to his works, but I post a lot of pieces on this blog with which I find interesting even if I don t agree. It is worth noting that while Shakespeare is required in the Common Core high school English Language Arts standards, it is the case that most of the country s top-ranked colleges and universities do not require English majors to take a course devoted to his works. You can read about that in [another] story by my Post colleague Nick Anderson. Here is one of the smart responses I received to the original post, which was written by Dana Dusbiber, a veteran teacher at Luther Burbank High School, the largest urban high school in Sacramento, Calif. [The following] post is by Matthew Truesdale, an English teacher at Wren High School in Piedmont, S.C. Truesdale just finished his twelfth year of teaching English, all of them as a middle or high school teacher in South Carolina public schools. He now teaches and coaches at Wren High School in Anderson, SC, a largely rural area. He writes that as a student he didn t enjoy reading Shakespeare, but as a teacher, he can clearly see why he still belongs in high school and college English classrooms along with other forms and authors of literature. This is his response: 1 Overwhelmed, flooded 2 Shakespeare 3 to expose to public derision, ridicule, or abuse

2 Response from Matt Truesdale (about Dana Dusbiber s article): Dana Dusbiber does a disservice to teachers and particularly those of us who teach English when she makes the argument that Shakespeare should be left to rest in peace. Ms. Dusbiber is frustrated by the narrowness of the Western canon 4 and by the expectation that high school students read Shakespeare. But that expectation is not a new one. Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet have been staples of any high school English curriculum for years upon years. I prefer Othello, so I teach that. But I don t do it because I feel beholden to any set of expectations or standards I do it because I want my students to have the experience of reading it that s it, and that s all. I often tell my students that one of the main reasons to read a Shakespeare play is simply for the privilege of telling others you ve read a Shakespeare play. In certain arenas, being able to carry on even a brief conversation about a plot point from King Lear is important and can give one credibility. I also think it s a neat little thing to see something in a movie, another book, or even (gasp!) real life, and think, Hey this reminds me of that scene in Hamlet when But my complaint [about] Dusbiber s post is this: She argues that her students shouldn t have to read Shakespeare because other literature better speaks to the needs of my very ethnically-diverse and wonderfully curious modern-day students. She then goes on to write that it might be appropriate to acknowledge him as a chronicler of life as he saw it 450 years ago and leave it at that. So what Shakespeare wrote 450 years ago is not applicable to her teaching today? Ethnically diverse students don t foolishly fall in love and over-dramatize every facet of that experience? Or feel jealousy or rage? Or fall victim to discrimination? Or act desperately out of passion? To dismiss Shakespeare on the grounds that life 450 years ago has no relation to life today is to dismiss every religious text, every piece of ancient mythology (Greek, African, Native American, etc.), and for that matter, everything that wasn t written in whatever time defined as NOW. And yes Shakespeare was in fact a white male. But look at the characters of Othello and Emila (among others), and you ll see a humane, progressive, and even diverse portrayal of the complexities of race and gender. 4 the body of books, music, and art that scholars generally accept as the most important and influential in shaping Western culture.

3 If Ms. Dusbiber doesn t want to teach Shakespeare or doesn t like Shakespeare or thinks Shakespeare is too hard for her students, then fine let that be her reasoning. Any teacher, myself included, has made decisions to switch out texts based on any number of factors. What she really seems to be saying is that no one should read anything that isn t just like them, and if that s her position as an English teacher, then she should maybe consider a different line of work. Shakespeare is more than just a long dead British guy, and I believe he has much to teach us about the modern human condition. When the general Othello, who has lived a life full of valor and who has had experiences far beyond and far greater than those of his men, still falls victim to Iago s head games for no other reason than that he is different, an other, and can t quite forget that, no matter his accomplishments, we empathize precisely because we ve been there. Most of us have felt insecurities that come not because we can t succeed or haven t succeeded, but that instead come because of how we are seen and judged. Also where does it say that we can t teach Shakespeare AND oral 5 African tradition? In fact, why not work to draw links between the two? And should we only read authors that look like us and have experiences like us? Or for that matter, does a commonality in skin color mean a commonality in experience? I teach at a rural South Carolina school with a mostly white population should I only teach white authors? Will all of my white students feel an immediate kinship to Faulkner or Hemingway to Twain? Will all of my female students see themselves perfectly in the characters of Flannery O Connor? Will all of my black students read A Raisin in the Sun and immediately connect to the desperation and inner turmoil of Walter Younger? Obviously not. Ms. Dusbiber s argument is largely reductive, and it turns the English classroom into a place where no one should be challenged or asked to step out of their comfort zone, where we should not look beyond ourselves. I, however, think English class is the perfect place to push and prod and even piss off students sometimes, and I can t do that if I m only ever holding up a mirror. Windows are good, too. 5 Stories and ideas transmitted through speech or song and may include folktales, ballads, chants, prose or verses

4 Name: Period: ARTICLE 1 Teacher: Why I don t want to assign Shakespeare anymore (even though he s in the Common Core) Reported By Valerie Strauss June 13, 2015 A flaming depiction of William Shakespeare during a fireworks display in England on April 23, (Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett) A new report on the teaching of Shakespeare in higher education found that English majors at the vast majority of the country s most prestigious colleges and universities are not now required to take an in-depth Shakespeare course but the Bard 6 remains a fixture in high school English classes. In fact, studying Shakespeare is a requirement in the Common Core English Language Arts standards, mentioned in specific standards throughout high school. For example, in ninth and tenth grades [the Common Core Standards are as follows]: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL Analyze how an author draws on and transforms source material in a specific work (e.g., how Shakespeare treats a theme or topic from Ovid or the Bible or how a later author draws on a play by Shakespeare). And in eleventh and twelfth grades: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful. (Include Shakespeare as well as other authors.) CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem (e.g., recorded or live production of a play or recorded novel or poetry), evaluating how each version interprets the source text. (Include at least one play by Shakespeare and one play by an American dramatist.) Shakespeare, of course, is seen by many as the greatest writer in the English language and central to the Western canon 7. The idea of not teaching Shakespeare works with their insights into the human condition is anathema 8 to many English teachers. But not all of them. Some wish they could stop teaching William Shakespeare s works altogether. One of those teachers is Dana Dusbiber, a veteran 6 Shakespeare 7 the body of books, music, and art that scholars generally accept as the most important and influential in shaping Western culture. 8 something or someone that one vehemently dislikes

5 teacher at Luther Burbank High School. Luther Burbank is the largest inner-city school in Sacramento, California, with all students coming from low-income homes and a majority of them minorities. In this post, she explains why she doesn t want to teach Shakespeare to Luther Burbank (or any) students. (You can read a response to her from another English teacher here.) [Skipping Shakespeare? Yes, English majors can often bypass the Bard] By Dana Dusbiber I am a high school English teacher. I am not supposed to dislike Shakespeare. But I do. And not only do I dislike Shakespeare because of my own personal disinterest in reading stories written in an early form of the English language that I cannot always easily navigate, but also because there is a WORLD of really exciting literature out there that better speaks to the needs of my very ethnicallydiverse and wonderfully curious modern-day students. I do not believe that I am cheating my students because we do not read Shakespeare. I do not believe that a long-dead, British guy is the only writer who can teach my students about the human condition. I do not believe that not viewing Romeo and Juliet or any other modern adaptation of a Shakespeare play will make my students less able to go out into the world and understand language or human behavior. Mostly, I do not believe I should do something in the classroom just because it has always been done that way. I am sad that so many of my colleagues teach a canon that some white people decided upon so long ago and do it without question. I am sad that we don t believe enough in ourselves as professionals to challenge the way that it has always been done. I am sad that we don t reach beyond our own often narrow beliefs about how young people become literate to incorporate new research on how teenagers learn, and a belief that our students should be excited about what they read and that may often mean that we need to find the time to let them choose their own literature. I was an English major. I am a voracious 9 reader. I have enjoyed reading some of the classics. And while I appreciate that many people enjoy re-reading texts that they have read multiple times, I enjoy reading a wide range of literature written by a wide range of ethnically-diverse writers who tell stories about the human experience as it is experienced today. Shakespeare lived in a pretty 9 wanting or devouring great quantities

6 small world. It might now be appropriate for us to acknowledge him as chronicler of life as he saw it 450 years ago and leave it at that. What I worry about is that as long as we continue to cling to ONE (white) MAN S view of life as he lived it so long ago, we (perhaps unwittingly) promote the notion that other cultural perspectives are less important. In the 25 years that I have been a secondary teacher, I have heard countless times, from respected teachers (mostly white), that they will ALWAYS teach Shakespeare, because our students need Shakespeare and his teachings on the human condition. So I ask, why not teach the oral tradition 10 out of Africa, which includes an equally relevant commentary on human behavior? Why not teach translations of early writings or oral storytelling from Latin America or Southeast Asia other parts of the world? Many, many of our students come from these languages and traditions. Why do our students not deserve to study these other literatures with equal time and value? And if time is the issue in our classrooms, perhaps we no longer have the time to study the Western canon that so many of us know and hold dear. Here then, is my argument: If we only teach students of color, as I have been fortunate to do my entire career, then it is far past the time for us to dispense with our Eurocentric presentation of the literary world. Conversely, if we only teach white students, it is our imperative duty to open them up to a world of diversity through literature that they may never encounter anywhere else in their lives. I admit that this proposal, that we leave Shakespeare out of the English curriculum entirely, will offend many. But if now isn t the time to break some school rules and think about how to bring literature of color to our student s lives, when will that time be? Let s let Shakespeare rest in peace, and start a new discussion about middle and high school rightof-passage reading and literature study. 10 Stories and ideas transmitted through speech or song and may include folktales, ballads, chants, prose or verses

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