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Portraying Helena, Samantha Geller (right) acts out a scene from William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” with a Wild West twist. The entire Blind Brook Middle School seventh-grade class spent the last unit of the year studying the playwright’s work, which culminated in a performance on June 21.

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Lisa Fellin, a seventh-grade English Language Arts (ELA) teacher at Blind Brook Middle School, said pupils have vastly different experiences in their English classes. But, she added, there’s at least one author that most people read at one point in school, especially if they attended a public institution—William Shakespeare.

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