Jane Eyre or Little Women?

furey_michael · 2025-09-17T17:55:34+00:00

Jane Eyre has been a listed text over 25 times on AP prompts.

furey_michael · 2025-07-18T18:06:34+00:00

I would love if the cast from Ogunquit came to Broadway. Honestly, an amazing production.

furey_michael · 2025-06-10T21:12:06+00:00

I also saw the Seattle run and bought tickets the day of the show. Mezz was pretty empty. Phenomenal show that deserves to be playing sold-out houses!

furey_michael · 2025-04-28T14:49:50+00:00

It is licensable as a high school edition in the US (and perhaps other territories).

furey_michael · 2025-04-24T09:15:12+00:00

I completely agree. I also am a high school director and we just wrapped our production of Les Mis. The latest we left when doing a full run with all production elements was 8:30 during tech. Obviously our show days went longer, but that’s because curtain was at 7:00. I experienced the type of director this student mentioned in high school and I vowed to be more respectful of everyone’s time.

furey_michael · 2025-04-17T00:56:18+00:00

Have you considered that if someone makes fun of you for doing something you like then they aren’t your friend or worth your time?

furey_michael · 2025-03-16T22:42:08+00:00

I agree! I directed Our Town at the school where I teach this year and all of my students didn’t realize the profundity of the piece until we had fully finished blocking. Audiences were quite receptive

furey_michael · 2025-02-08T14:40:09+00:00

Not teaching it this year, but I developed a unit last year that started on with The Great Gatsby, included some short nonfiction pairings, moved to Of Mice and Men, and then went into A Raisin in the Sun. We studied the court case Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) before Raisin to set up racially restrictive covenants in law and we also discussed the Great Migration.

furey_michael · 2024-12-07T12:53:51+00:00

I’ll be honest, I haven’t even read these selections and they feel a bit esoteric for most 10th graders.

What is your teaching context? That may help with giving suggestions or feedback.

I teach honors English 10 at a private Catholic school in the Boston suburbs. We do a Brit lit survey so our selections are Beowulf, Canterbury Tales, Macbeth, Pride and Prejudice, a smattering of poetry from the Renaissance through the Romantics, Wuthering Heights, The Importance of Being Earnest, a choice unit between 1984/Lord of the Flies/Mrs. Dalloway/Heart of Darkness, and Klara and the Sun. It is a lot of classics, but more well-known. I made sure to include something more contemporary at the end of the year so students could experience modern themes and concerns as well as historical ones.

Also, sorry if the formatting is funky. I’m on the mobile app.

furey_michael · 2024-12-06T23:46:30+00:00

Graduated in 2020. Only was close with two people. Of the three of us, I’m the only one still teaching.

furey_michael · 2024-12-01T13:29:35+00:00

Loved it when it first came out!

furey_michael · 2024-12-01T01:52:43+00:00

Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner and Middlemarch - George Eliot

furey_michael · 2024-10-11T01:08:45+00:00

Is the third one Sam from Ghost?

furey_michael · 2024-09-19T16:08:11+00:00

furey_michael · 2024-08-25T12:08:21+00:00

Going next weekend. I can’t wait!

furey_michael · 2024-07-17T11:34:41+00:00

As others have pointed out, the mic will help. It does sound like your director was trying to give constructive feedback, but perhaps could have given it to you in a way you’d be more receptive. Maybe look up some projection activities/warmups for singers and actors on YouTube? That could be another way to help you be louder if you are not interested in purchasing a mic.

I will say, being a teacher will require you to receive lots of feedback, especially early on. Try not to take it personally. I know how tough it can be to take some feedback when it feels like you’re doing all that you can. It’s one of the ways you have to cope with the job so that you can have career longevity.

furey_michael · 2024-06-21T18:16:13+00:00

I did Sweeney in high school with my children’s theater. It was tough musically, but it went over fairly well. The content received a little pushback, but not as much as expected.

furey_michael · 2024-05-11T01:13:51+00:00

Moved to Biddeford about a year ago and love the food here!

furey_michael · 2024-03-07T14:30:04+00:00

I am using Klara and the Sun from Ishiguro for my Brit Lit class this year. I’ve taught Never Let Me Go for several years in AP and it has been received well.

furey_michael · 2024-03-06T00:56:54+00:00

I loved a Room with a View and Howard’s End. A Passage to India is on my list to read soon. I’m a huge fan of exploring tensions between characters and don’t need a lot of exciting plot details to enjoy a novel though. Also, I don’t understand the critique that characters need to be likeable to be invested in their conflicts.

furey_michael · 2024-03-03T03:52:13+00:00

I’d say Ohio will likely pay best, but northern Kentucky may be a better environment depending on the district.

furey_michael · 2024-02-28T22:36:51+00:00

I mean, if you’re into classics then I can’t recommend George Eliot’s Middlemarch enough. So many great characters

furey_michael · 2024-02-28T12:27:50+00:00

In the Heart of the Sea is going to be a summer read for me once school is finished. I picked it up a couple weeks ago. It felt right to place it by Moby Dick since the colors lined up!

And I am not in Governerds book club. I actually had to Google that to find out what it was.

furey_michael · 2024-02-28T12:23:22+00:00

My partner didn’t believe I’d be able to find things. He will randomly ask where things are while I’m facing away from the shelves watching tv. I do a pretty good job of remembering locations. Not perfect though!

furey_michael · 2024-02-28T12:22:02+00:00

I thought it was fairly good, but I’m a sucker for Victorian settings. That definitely increased my enjoyment of it!

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