White stuff.

[sister_luck]

The first snow of the winter is always something special, and even more so here, where we don't get much of it anyway, maybe two or three times a year and then only for a couple of hours.

Needless to say, everyone at school was giddy with excitement. Even the Year 13 students were acting like little kids, talking about snowmen and snowball fights and marvelling at the steady fall of big fat snowflakes outside the window. "Miss", one boy told me, "yesterday I just threw myself down in the snow".

They just couldn't concentrate on the balcony scene in Romeo & Juliet, so I made them write about what would have happened if it had been snowing in Verona on those fateful days...

The first scene was re-written as starting with a snowball fight. The ball took place at an ice-skating rink. Romeo tried to impress Juliet with snowy metaphors and in the balcony scene he had to throw a snowball at Juliet's window to get her attention. He also nearly froze to death.

Comments

[lijability.livejournal.com]

I liked that, it made me chuckle.


Good way to motivate them to express themselves...


This reminds me too, I have to get in some wintery icons.... out with the Obama.... the icon, not the president.

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

It was fun and it was the only way to get them to do any work.

We're back to grey weather, so I don't think I'll be using my frost icon again soon...