Re: THEORY: Hebrew revival (was: THEORY: Irish, and language death)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Walker" <carrajena@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 2:59 AM
Subject: Re: THEORY: Hebrew revival (was: THEORY: Irish, and language death)


> --- Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...> wrote:
> >     (The Bible, in the original Hebrew, is used in
> > the public,  _nonreligious_ , elementary schools
> > here in Israel, as a history text and as a
> > literature text.
> > I don't recall, in my own schooldays in America,
> > tackling Shakespeare until high school!)
> >
> >
> > Dan Sulani
>
> While in America, the bastion of religious freedom,
> some school districts will try to expel you for
> bringing a Bible on school grounds.  And I believe
> you're right about Shakespeare not being touched till
> high school in the public schools, but it wasn't
> always so.  When I was in fith grade we started
> homeschooling.  My reader already had Shakespeare as
> did my sister's third grade reader.  Of course they
> were only short excerpts, but they were *not*
> simplified or teranslated into "modern".
My school starts shakespeare(a whole play) in Year 8.  I think that's 7th
grade in your system...Middle School, I believe..



> Adam
>