some highlights from my students’ romeo and juliet modern interpretation projects:
– someone made a username for friar laurence with 420 at the end
– the same kid who put 69 in romeo’s username like i wouldn’t know what either of those things mean
– the girl who added ‘clean’ at the end of all the songs on her juliet playlist like lmao girl i know spotify doesn’t have the clean version
– the kid who said romeo and juliet killed each other
– the weird dichotomy of kids who put love story on their playlist vs the kids who choose bad blood
– the kid who wrote ‘get a room’ as tybalt’s comment on romeo’s couple pic
– the kid who said ‘romeo is probably one of those douches who follows a ton of people so they follow him back and then he unfollows all of them’
– the one who legitimately used the word ‘alrighty’ do kids say this in their text messages???? i thought i was the one talking like an elderly person but okay
– the one who made romeo’s username ‘montagoose’
– the only kid who acknowledged that posting about your secret relationship on instagram was a bad idea
– the girl who wrote that romeo would unironically say ‘#blessed’. she’s right.
– the one single solitary girl who wrote mercutio as gay as shakespeare did (she’s also the only one who used mercutio at all which is a tragedy but whatever)
– the one who wrote romeo’s insta bio as ‘thus with a kiss i die… LOL RIP ME 😂💀’
– the one who made benvolio’s username benvoliYOYou are an excellent teacher
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today in french we were doing an exercise on adjective forms and some of the sentences said things like “boys prefer pretty girls,” “girls prefer muscular boys,” etc. and my 40 yr old straight married professor makes an awkward face and says “ok, wow these just got weirdly heteronormative. how about you fill in the blank with whatever noun-adjective combination you want, as long as it follows correct grammar”
and the answers that we came up with were amazing.
- girls don’t prefer boys, girls prefer (fast) cars and money
- boys prefer beautiful barbecues
- girls prefer annoying cats
- boys prefer 75 large plastic dinosaurs
- and of course: pretty girls prefer pretty girls
so remember kids, heteronormativity doesn’t belong in the classroom but 75 large plastic dinosaurs do.