[CASL-L] Help! Suggestions needed on books

[Cathy Andronik]

 It's hard to find in the U.S., and there isn't even a full production on youtube, but I LOVE the play "Just Macbeth" by Aussie Andy Griffiths (the children's humor author, not the "Mayberry RFD" actor).  Synopsis:  a class of 6th graders is reading the play, which they think is lame.  Then one of the witches' spells backfires, and the entire kiddy cast is thrown back into Macbethian times and the re-enactment becomes real.  Combines tween bodily function jokes and hilariously bad special effects with bloody daggers and the theme of power and revenge.  I saw it on stage in Sydney seven years ago; several blue-haired ladies in the audience left in a huff at what was being done to The Bard, but the school groups appreciated it.
How about "Enter Three Witches" by Caroline Cooney?  Or "As I Descended" by Robin Talley?
Cathy AndronikTeacher LibrarianBrien McMahon HSNorwalk

    On Monday, December 4, 2017, 9:10:13 AM EST, Rocca, Jennifer <roccaj at brookfieldps.org> wrote:  
 
 I am addressing this exact same concern right now! Same play, same theme, same problem.
The teacher I'm working with is looking for shorter articles to take home. A few we started with:
   
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The Real Connection Between Ambition and Mental Health

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How Successful People Handle Stress

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How Power Corrupts Leaders



On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Loretta Sullivan <b59lgian at mpspride.org> wrote:

Hello,
We have a request from one of our teachers.  Please see below.  Any ideas?  Greatly appreciated...!  Thanks for any and all input.
"I'm co-teaching Macbeth in a sophomore honors class this quarter. We're mostly reading the play in class, but I'd love to give the students something to read at home as well.
Ideally, I'd like five or six books (variety of writers, protagonists, etc) that relate in some way to the theme of power/ambition or that in some other way have an interesting connection with Macbeth.
I've scoured the book room for books that relate that maybe no one teaches anymore, but haven't found much. I pulled A Separate Peace, Athletic Shorts, Othello, and Hamlet. Those are all male protagonists, all written by white men, etc. Like Water for Chocolate crossed my mind (war, mysticism), as did Carter Beats the Devil (power, the supernatural).​"​Respectfully,
Loretta SullivanLibrary Media Specialist
Manchester High School



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