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Byline: Arin Gencer
Apr. 15--Students learn to love Shakespeare The two fifth-graders faced each other as they prepared to throw their next word volleys.
"I'll see thee hanged, spleeny, rough-hewn pigeon egg," Anthony Gunther, 10, said to Jessica Cunningham, also 10. "Away, I say, thou goatish, fool-born giglet," Jessica replied. Down the hall in another classroom at East Middle School, a different spirit reigned.
"Dear Josh," said eighth-grader Nick Schultz, 13, as he selected lines from an imaginary love letter to Romeo from Juliet, "Thou art the rising sun that I adore." "Dear Nick," classmate Josh Mackley, 13, said, picking his own lines for the demonstration, "You wrap me up in wonder. You have made me sick with passion. I'll…