St. Martin's Day School Students Read 'Macbeth'

Submitted to Patch by Cynthia Barry, librarian and communications director, St. Martin’s-in-the-Field Day School.

Seventh- and eighth-grade students choose to stay after school four afternoons a week over a two-week period to read Shakespeare’s perfect-for-the-Halloween-season great tragedy of Macbeth.

Fourteen students crammed into the St. Martin’s-in-the-Field Library, temporarily known as the Library of Inverness Castle, to read aloud “the Scottish play.” On the day of the final reading, parents were invited to come to the library to celebrate the students’ adventurous reading spirit. They all got cake, which was decorated in autumnal colors, and featured the famous words, “Lay on, Macduff.”

Congratulations to students who bravely chose to climb the Everest of reading a Shakespearean play:

Eighth Grade

• Patrick Dwyer
• Shawn Dwyer
• Olivia Payer
• Justine Sanphillipo
• Audrey Simpson

Seventh Grade

• Kelly Cooke
• Abby Cotton
• Chase Duvall
• Cameron Fitzgerald
• Michael Pistillo
• Lindsey Reiter
• Holly Roane
• Chris Summers
• Lucas Wright