![]() Both are intelligent young women who possess an inner strength that is revealed slowly and which surprises even them. The fundamental connection between the two works is the pairing of Juliet and Starr. It was an environment of which they had little understanding and even less control, yet it dictated the paths they were destined to follow. Like Starr, Thomas’s protagonist, Romeo and Juliet were born into the hate they were given. In a way, the THUG LIFE acronym created by Tupac (“The Hate U Give Little Infants F***s Everybody”) that Angie Thomas uses for her title feels like it was written as a summary of Shakespeare’s early tragedy. In this piece, I want to focus on such a conversation that we conducted in my ninth-grade Humanities class this past spring between two works separated by 400 years and 3,000 miles: Romeo and Juliet and Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give. ![]() And there is the sequel model I’ve had good results teaching A Raisin in the Sun with Bruce Norris’ 2009 “continuation” of that play, Clybourne Park. There are pairings where a well-known story is told from a different perspective, such as Beowulf and Gardner’s Grendel, or Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. There’s the modern update, such as pairing King Lear with Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres. In a secondary English classroom, it is impossible to overestimate the importance of texts in conversation, either with supplementary materials to a central text or two complete texts.įor the latter mode, there are several interesting variations on the theme. ![]() This blog post was written by NCTE member and Secondary Section Steering Committee member Joshua Cabat. From the NCTE Secondary Section Steering Committee ![]()
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