Shakespeare is admittedly not my favorite. However, I do enjoy having students draw random characters to read throughout the play. I don't let them redraw if they're character doesn't align to their gender.
I almost always end up with same sex Capulets and Montagues, and nearly always a gender-swapped Romeo and Juliet. This year is no different.
Today, my Lady Capulet-a fifteen year old, 6 ft. 2 boy to set the picture, was reading the line in act 1 scene 1 where Lady Capulet asks Benvolio where Romeo is, but she's glad he wasn't there for the massive fight in the village square.
As I broke it down for the kids, my current Lady Capulet goes, "Right. My mom senses were tingling."
They're like spidey-senses, but for moms. And apparently they develop from reading half a scene of Shakespeare.
