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
I would wanna be this kind of teacher.
to be fair, most of these would make shakespere proud
goodness, these projects sound cringy
Not really, it sounds like they had fun.
