Today I am going to take a pause on the summer series because something major is on the horizon: the first day of school! Not only that, but it's the start of my tenth year of teaching as well. As much as I love blogging about the summer, I did not want to miss my opportunity to capture those first day jitters. But how to celebrate and pay homage to all of that?
Immediately my mind went to one of the teen movie classics of my youth: 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), a Shakespeare re-telling of Taming of the Shrew set in (you guessed it) high school. This seemed an appropriate jumping off point given my own role as a high school English teacher (we do love our Shakespeare re-tellings).
