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Got my midterm and my first project back in my Second Language Learning & Teaching class. I got a B on the test (missing three points out of twenty five will really goof you up), and aced the project. Yay! I was so nervous about that thing. It was bizarre and unlike any writing thing I've ever had to do, so at no point in the process of doing it was I sure that I was on the right track. _So_ nerve-wracking! But apparently I got it right, because the prof wrote notes all over my margins saying things like "good analysis" and "I agree."

Now we're on to the even _more_ terrifying second project which is ESL classroom observation and analysis. I know, no big surprise, it's only the name of the course. But this is the first of the "serious business, this is what it takes to become a teacher" kind of stuff that's really quite intimidating. Teaching was always just sort of in my nebulous future somewhere, but I'm quickly approaching the point that it's going to become a reality, or not happen at all. And if it doesn't happen I have no _earthly_ idea what I'm going to do with my life. So yeah. No pressure.

(no subject)

Got my midterm and my first project back in my Second Language Learning & Teaching class. I got a B on the test (missing three points out of twenty five will really goof you up), and aced the project. Yay! I was so nervous about that thing. It was bizarre and unlike any writing thing I've ever had to do, so at no point in the process of doing it was I sure that I was on the right track. _So_ nerve-wracking! But apparently I got it right, because the prof wrote notes all over my margins saying things like "good analysis" and "I agree."

Now we're on to the even _more_ terrifying second project which is ESL classroom observation and analysis. I know, no big surprise, it's only the name of the course. But this is the first of the "serious business, this is what it takes to become a teacher" kind of stuff that's really quite intimidating. Teaching was always just sort of in my nebulous future somewhere, but I'm quickly approaching the point that it's going to become a reality, or not happen at all. And if it doesn't happen I have no _earthly_ idea what I'm going to do with my life. So yeah. No pressure.

sort of random, but it looks like fun

Found this while out trawling teh intarwebs:

Bold the ones you've seen stage productions of, italicize the ones you've seen filmed versions of (including TV versions, like the BBC's), underline the ones you've read or listened to, and add a star* to any you've performed in, done readings of or otherwise theatrically participated.

All's Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet (At least the Mel Gibson one, perhaps another I can't think of at the moment)
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
*Henry VI, Part III (*Queen Margaret taunting the Duke of York. This is a kickass speech, y'all)
Henry VIII
*Julius Caesar (*Portia imploring Brutus to tell her what the heck is up, the old old one with Marlon Brando)
King John
King Lear
Love's Labour's Lost (Kenneth Branagh version)
*Macbeth (*Lady M reading the letter and hatching the Plot, Roman Polanski, Verdi's opera)
Measure for Measure
*The Merchant of Venice (*duet of Portia & Nerissa, The one with Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons)
*The Merry Wives of Windsor (*random fairy at the end)
*A Midsummer Night's Dream (*duet between Helena & Hermia, The one with Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, and Kevin Kline)
*Much Ado about Nothing (*random seventh member of the watch, Kenneth Branagh's with Emma Thompson and Denzel Washington and Keanu Reeves)
Othello (Kenneth Branagh's with Laurence Fishburne as Othello, opera by Verdi)
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Richard II
Richard III
**Romeo and Juliet (*Juliet's Nurse, and *Tybalt in a fantastically choreographed duel with Mercutio, Roman Polanski, and Leo DiCaprio & Claire Danes)
*The Taming of the Shrew (*Kate's speech at the end where she "proves" herself tamed, The old Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor)
The Tempest
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night (The version with Helena Bonham Carter as Olivia)
Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Winter's Tale

This doesn't count adaptations ("Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" and Strange Brew =/= Hamlet, etc.)

Huh. I've never seen a Shakespeare production on stage that I wasn't in?! How'd I manage that?

sort of random, but it looks like fun

Found this while out trawling teh intarwebs:

Bold the ones you've seen stage productions of, italicize the ones you've seen filmed versions of (including TV versions, like the BBC's), underline the ones you've read or listened to, and add a star* to any you've performed in, done readings of or otherwise theatrically participated.

All's Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet (At least the Mel Gibson one, perhaps another I can't think of at the moment)
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
*Henry VI, Part III (*Queen Margaret taunting the Duke of York. This is a kickass speech, y'all)
Henry VIII
*Julius Caesar (*Portia imploring Brutus to tell her what the heck is up, the old old one with Marlon Brando)
King John
King Lear
Love's Labour's Lost (Kenneth Branagh version)
*Macbeth (*Lady M reading the letter and hatching the Plot, Roman Polanski, Verdi's opera)
Measure for Measure
*The Merchant of Venice (*duet of Portia & Nerissa, The one with Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons)
*The Merry Wives of Windsor (*random fairy at the end)
*A Midsummer Night's Dream (*duet between Helena & Hermia, The one with Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, and Kevin Kline)
*Much Ado about Nothing (*random seventh member of the watch, Kenneth Branagh's with Emma Thompson and Denzel Washington and Keanu Reeves)
Othello (Kenneth Branagh's with Laurence Fishburne as Othello, opera by Verdi)
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Richard II
Richard III
**Romeo and Juliet (*Juliet's Nurse, and *Tybalt in a fantastically choreographed duel with Mercutio, Roman Polanski, and Leo DiCaprio & Claire Danes)
*The Taming of the Shrew (*Kate's speech at the end where she "proves" herself tamed, The old Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor)
The Tempest
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night (The version with Helena Bonham Carter as Olivia)
Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Winter's Tale

This doesn't count adaptations ("Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" and Strange Brew =/= Hamlet, etc.)

Huh. I've never seen a Shakespeare production on stage that I wasn't in?! How'd I manage that?