Susan Patella

A student of Susan Patella's

Susan Patella is a 6th grade English teacher at University Prep in Seattle where puts on a Shakespeare play each year with her students through a program called “Shake Hands with Shakespeare.”

In this audio excerpt she discusses how she talks about metaphors with her students. Metaphors do for language, she says, what espresso does for coffee.

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You can also go behind the scenes of the students’ rehearsals. In this clip, the witches from Macbeth rehearse.

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This clip features Romeo and Juliet rehearsing the famous balcony scene.

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