Enter Lady Macbeth with a taper.
"Lo you, here she comes! This is her very guise, and upon my life, fast asleep. Observe her: stand close."
Doct. "How came she by that light?"
Gent. "Why it stood by her: she has light by her continually: tis her command."
Doct. "You see her eyes are open."
Gent. "Ay, but their sense is shut."
Doct. "What is it she does now? Look how she rubs her hands."
Gent. "It is an accustomed action with her to seem thus washing her hands. I have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour."
Lady M. "Yet here's a spot."
Doct. "Hark! She speaks: I will set down what comes from her to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly."
Lady M. "Out, damned spot, out I say!----One: two: why then tis time to do it. Hell is murky-----Fie my lord. Fie a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account-------Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him."
Macbeth, Act V Scene 1.
Who would have thought that "The Mountaineer" would have lines from Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, "Macbeth" on the front page?
It is because this week we welcome a new English teacher to Big Sandy High School and her favorite subject to teach is Shakespeare!
Well played Kimberly Perry who hails from Malta and who went to college to get her degree in English at MSU Northern in Havre.
"I have always been very passionate about literature," said Perry, with a twinkle in her eye that would have brightened the days of Frost, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Clemens and even stoic old William Faulkner.
Right now in one of Perry's English classes they are reading "Twelfth Night".
Perry says that if she can find ways to get Shakespeare's words turned into modern words and if students can see a film that sort of parallels the story, that makes for teaching Shakespeare much easier.
Lots of prep work for this first years English teacher. She teaches a class of English to the seventh grade through the 12th grade.
Perry says it is an easy job because her students love to read and study what is happening in English.
Perry reminded us that November is National Short Story Month so she will be doing some special things about short stories all month long.
Already she has gone through a couple of Poe classics, "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Tell Tale Heart".
Kimberly Perry lives in Big Sandy and says it is not much different than Malta. Everyone knows everyone else and
See other than getting used to when things open and close around town, it is a great place to live.
When commenting on the fact that while living in Malta, she had the Little Rockies not far from town, she said that they had to drive 50 miles to get to the Little Rockies. In Big Sandy, she just steps out of her door and she is almost in the Centennial area of the Bear Paw Mountains.
Kimberly Perry says that her family is a big part of her life and it is sort of split up right now. Her father is building a home in the Philippines so she doesn't see much of him but her mother is home in Malta, and that helps.
With six preparations a day, Kimberly Perry is very busy but probably each of her English classes is great because of that twinkle in her eye!
