So, here's the thing. I had a moment yesterday with Romeo and Juliet. Year 11 were watching Act 2, scenes 1 and 2 from The Globe RSC production.
I then, kind of unplanned, but linked, nonetheless, encouraged the students to think about the behaviour of the young lovers /1

staging, differences etc.
I found myself becoming increasingly excited about how the actors brought Will's words to pure and vibrant life and exclaimed that they were not just 'words on a page'.
I lost myself, I think I may have detected flickers of interest, maybe more /2

I'm not sure what I'm trying to say here but maybe I am just grateful that this subject of English, the texts, give me freedom, inspiration and allow me to communicate my passions for the beauty of language and, somehow, in some small way, encourage the students to feel the /3

pages tremble, the words take flight. Yesterday, I developed, once more, a new respect for the manifold genius of the Bard. His work, still so relevant, so life-enhancing, so transformative, like the star crossed love of our tragic couple.
We are lucky, beyond boundaries, /4

to live with texts like these and to be able to try and teach them with enthusiasm, devotion and a bit of abandon.
Let's see those arms waving and rotating. Our time is now and it always has been...I feel a blog arising from this somewhere.
@Team_English1, rejoice!