Scenes that are akward to read in front of a class...

lol that's funny. I'm reading it in class as well and i was Abigail...

i started laughing and my teacher told me to "grow up"...but hey, it was funny to me.

Talk about awkward - We just finished reading it in my honors class and had to act out scenes between Abby and Proctor. By the way, I go to an all girls school. Super awkward.

We're reading it and we have very few guys in my English class. Every guy in the class had a part so one of the girls had to read John Proctor for that scene. The girl who played Abigail felt pretty uncomfortable because of the "sweating like a stallion" part. Sadly we just read and discussed.

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I totally know what you mean. I also volunteered for her part b/c none of the other girls like to read a lot aloud. Yea, I read ahead and gasped and all the kids looked at me and then turned to the page and started laughing. We read that scene the next day and I thought I was going to die. The worst part was that Proctor was being played by one of my best guy friends.....WEIRD!!

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Nope, I don't go to Riverview.
We left The Cruicible behind a few weeks ago, but my friends and I still like to revisit it. I go up to my friend who played John Proctor and get really close to him and throw out something like "I'd forgotten how strong you are, John Proctor *wink*"
So, let me reiterate a bit about my experience. We're sitting there in English class and my teacher is asking for volunteers. I didn't know what I was up for, looking through the characters and for some reason Abigail Williams stood out to me. I volunteered for it. My good teacher, always looking out for me, doesn't give me any warning. He simply looks at me, looks at the character list, looks at me, looks at the character list and says "Hmm. That's kind of an interesting role." Okay. I like interesting roles. We didn't get far that day but the next day I got a nice warning from my friend who has English before me telling me about the "smut" we were reading. Fortunately I had some warning, so I was sitting there, reading ahead the whole time until we finally arrived at the "upstairs" scene. I stifled a laugh as I read in a voice that was way too serious, "Gah. I'd forgotten how strong you are, John Proctor." I giggled. I was handling it rather well until the part about the stallion, when I completely lost it. My teacher was really good about it and didn't throw me out or anything.
There was none of that teacher as John Proctor business in our class. I probably wouldn't have been able to handle that, or forget about it. Ever. "Yeah, you put the knowledge in my heart, and I'm not talking about literature." Akwardness. My teacher read a little bit as Parris or somebody. He got way into it more than anyone else, it was great.
The best part in our whole Crucible unit was when we took a test on the first couple of acts. One question was "What are some disputes between the various characters?" I wrote down a few lame ones and then I wrote in these words "Well, Elizabeth Proctor was probably mad because Abigail was shagging her husband."
My teacher got a nice laugh out of that.
I'm going to tell my teacher that I'm starting an online support group called UJGVaAW (Unfortunate Junior Girls Volunteering as Abigail Williams). Any takers? XD


"Gentlemen, I wash my hands of this weirdness..."

Puritan Porn? lol! that's awesome. Nobody in our class said anything like that, but at that same part right after I said the "stallion" bit this kid next to me is like "Oooh, I'd like to see that." sickos, haha.

"Gentlemen, I wash my hands of this weirdness..."

Haha, that's awesome. Good plan.
The other day I told one of my sophomore buds that she should volunteer for Abigail Williams next year when they get to The Crucible. I was like, "just do it, don't even think about it." And she's like "okay I will!"

Then I felt bad. So I got my text book out and let her read the smutty part.

"Gentlemen, I wash my hands of this weirdness..."