The intention here is to introduce the classics to young readers while using a language they might use. As an introduction, the hope is to motivate them to want to explore the original and help them start appreciating the possibility of a larger language of expression. This is partly inspired by the rewritings of Charles … Continue reading Lit Bites – Modern retellings of classic literature. “All the genius. Half the scrolling.”
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Henry VI, Part 2 by Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part 2 is one of the most politically revealing history plays, not because it offers a tidy account of England’s past, but because it stages government as a struggle among vanity, appetite, performance, and weakness. The play is less a celebration of monarchy than a diagnosis of it. Again and again, Shakespeare shows … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Henry VI, Part 2 by Shakespeare
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Henry VI, Part 1 by Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part 1 is one of Shakespeare’s most revealing early history plays because it dramatizes not the triumph of statecraft but the fragility of nations in the making. Rather than presenting England as a coherent political body, the play stages a country already splintering under the pressures of succession, military exhaustion, and competing claims … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Henry VI, Part 1 by Shakespeare
Revisionist Pedagogy – Leveraging Universal Design for Learning to Foster Social and News Media Literacy in Pre-Collegiate Curriculum
In an era defined by the constant circulation of social media posts, algorithmically curated news, and rapidly evolving digital platforms, media literacy has become an indispensable component of schooling. Students must learn not only to consume media critically but also to interpret its persuasive strategies, evaluate credibility, recognize bias, and participate ethically in public discourse. … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Leveraging Universal Design for Learning to Foster Social and News Media Literacy in Pre-Collegiate Curriculum
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Henry IV, Part 2 by Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part 2 is one of The Bard’s most quietly devastating history plays. At first glance, it may seem like a companion piece to the more famous Part 1, a continuation of rebellion, tavern wit, and Prince Hal’s coming-of-age story. But Part 2 is darker, slower, and far more reflective. It is a play … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Henry IV, Part 2 by Shakespeare
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Henry IV, Part 1 by Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part 1 is one of Shakespeare’s richest explorations of power, performance, and identity. At once a political chronicle and a coming-of-age drama, the play stages a kingdom in disorder while asking a deeper question: what does it mean to be fit for rule? Shakespeare answers not with simple heroism, but with ambiguity, irony, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Henry IV, Part 1 by Shakespeare
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Richard II by Shakespeare
Richard II is one of the most hauntingly elegant of the history plays, not because it is driven by battlefield spectacle, but because it stages the collapse of kingship as an inward, almost ceremonial tragedy. The play is less interested in the mechanics of politics than in the fragile mystique that allows a king to … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Richard II by Shakespeare
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – King John by Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s King John is one of the most politically alert of his histories, and also one of the most unsettling. It is a play haunted by uncertainty: uncertain inheritance, uncertain law, uncertain loyalty, uncertain conscience. Unlike the grand sweep of Richard II or Henry V, where kingship can still seem to carry a visible aura, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – King John by Shakespeare
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Two Noble Kinsmen by Shakespeare
The Two Noble Kinsmen is one of Shakespeare’s strangest late plays: a collaboration with John Fletcher, drawn from Chaucer’s “The Knight’s Tale,” and first printed in 1634, though it was likely performed earlier, around 1613–1614. That layered ancestry matters, because the play feels like a work in permanent translation—medieval story recast as Jacobean drama, courtly … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Two Noble Kinsmen by Shakespeare
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Pericles, Prince of Tyre by Shakespeare
Pericles, Prince of Tyre is one of Shakespeare’s most unusual and affecting romances: a play that feels deliberately broken apart so that it can be mended before our eyes. Its power does not lie in dramatic polish or tight structure. It lies in motion—storm-tossed, fragmented, and miraculous motion—through loss, exile, silence, and recovery. What emerges … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Pericles, Prince of Tyre by Shakespeare
The New Renaissance Mindset 