- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
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- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
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- Measure for Measure
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- Much Ado About Nothing
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- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
After Ally explains the difference between “lonely” and “alone,” she still feels as though she did something wrong and excuses herself to the bathroom. Again, this speaks to the power of everything Ally has heard others say about her—the combined power of hearing for years that she's dumb is much stronger, and much truer for Ally than what she hears in Mr. Daniels's praise.
In addition to showing how much power teachers have to inadvertently cause their students to think poorly about themselves, this also shows how difficult it can be for a kind teacher like Mr. Daniels to earn…