Okay, so it took forever for me to get my paper
going.
I came up with a couple different ideas for theses
and got great feedback from all of you (thank you!) and from my facebookgroupies along with some really solid advice from Dr. Burton. I found all these
possible sources, of which I only ended up using a couple, but that’s okay.
Thanks to some more guidance from Dr. Burton right
at the end I changed my whole approach, (from “comparing R&J to MND andproving that MND was better” to “since we have to teach Shakespeare in spite of
these risks, we’d better do it right, so here is WHAT to teach and HOW to do it”
which was frustrating, but guess what! It made my topic much more accessible.
Of course I was procrastinating a lot and praying a
lot, which is not advisable but worked out for me: the night I was supposed to
be writing this paper but getting nowhere I finally gave up at like 12:00 am
and decided to just read a couple of articles for my ENG 378 class and then go
to bed. Well guess what, those articles were about Shakespeare! And the next
day my ENG 378 teacher shared a Scholastic Scope kids lit magazine that had a
MND script in it – I was so surprised and very grateful. Those articles and
that magazine fit perfectly into my essay. I also had one good response from a
question I posted to a teacher Google community that contributed to my thesis. Equipped
with these great tools, I stayed up til 3:30 am and finished that dang paper in
the nick of time! Now maybe it will be accepted to the venues I have submitted
it to (the Rough Magic guys emailed me back and are looking over my full text!)
and go on to change the world!
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