Macbeth at CHS

Right before Christmas Break, my students had a ton of projects and work to finish. As a student, I remember HATING how my teachers would pile on work at the end and rush to finish everything, but as a teacher, I can't seem to stay away from that. My Seniors were in the final throes  delights of studying Macbeth. As a culminating project, they were split into groups, assigned one act of the play, and told to re-write it...as a script... in a different setting... then re-enact it for the class. SO much fun :) While they grumbled, they all did a great job! We ended up having Macbeth on an airplane, in Oz, and in Harry Potter's World...

The Harry Potter group was phenomenal- with some comedic relief written into their script as well! Here's a quick video of part of their performance!

I also created a funny bulletin board (thanks to Pinterest) that was Christmas-inspired. However, I took it down before I remembered to take a picture of it. So I'm posting the original source. My study hall kids helped me with it, and I loved it! Super-cute! 

We started back to school on January 7th after a long (but never long enough!) Christmas break. We are down to 83 days left of school for this year, and it's flying by! In addition to the huge job of planning Prom 2013 being underway, Drama Club has also started. My life is FULL for the semester! Thankfully, I have a student-teacher who starts on January 22nd, so that will be quite the awesome experience to shoulder some of the responsibility!