Is this a blogger which I see before me? (Jerz’s Literacy Weblog)
The other day I read a kid’s version of Macbeth to my son (age 7). It’s William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (retold by Bruce Coville / pictures by Gary Kelley).
A couple nights later, instead of the science-fiction paperback we’ve been ploughing through for weeks, my son asked for Macbeth again. It uses excerpts from the Shakespearean dialogue, woven together with modern-language narrative, making the story easily followed.
Anyway, I was tired, and thinking about the introduction to weblogs class that I needed to prepare for the next morning, so that when Macbeth says, “Is this a dagger which I see before me?” I stumbled over a word and changed the quotation.
My son laughed his head off, and made me promise to blog it.
I do the same thing whenever I try to talk about the game “Grand Theft Auto.” I say “Grand Text Auto” instead. (When I said that in front of two bloggers at the Serious Games summit last year, they laughed and pointed and said, “So you do it, too?”)
wow, I didn’t know that they have Shakespeare for kids now, in a way that is so crazy. It makes me laugh to think that some kid somewhere might be asking mom or dad to read romeo and juliet to them or some other play.
Ha, cute… It happens to the best of us.