Really think the most formative curriculum choice my teachers at high school made for me was assigning Henry IV pt 1 as the Shakespeare play for freshmen year. We had done Julius Caesar and A Midsummer Night’s Dream in junior school and those went down okay but Henry IV was the moment something clicked inside me. In my memory we had a class or two to go over the historical backstory and the various reasons for King Henry’s unease and then we got to the first Falstaff and Hal scene…