Worlds collide

Ten years ago, I was teaching second grade, my first year as an elementary school teacher.  With a fondness for Shakespeare and a desire to try something, anything, to garner my students' attention, I decided to read some of Shakespeare's plays, adapted into story versions, to them. 

They loved the stories.  Sword fights and betrayal, love and tragedy, large-scale battles and even a few laughs, the kids ate these stories up and kept asking for more.  At the end of the year, that class of secon