I taught freshman English for six years, six class periods each year.
In every one of those classes, we read Romeo and Juliet.
After the steep learning curve of my early years, this was a relief. I was a pro now! I had lesson plans I could reuse with only minor changes.
A couple of years after that, I was even more of a pro; I barely even needed to look at the lesson plans. I gave the same explanations and told the same jokes at the same point in each chapter.
By year six I had memorized the exact point in the audiobook where we could hear saliva coming out of the voice actors’ mouths.
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