Half beat is the story of a young girl who is trying to find her way in life. She has a bet friend whom she loves very much and she learns about love and life from her piano teacher. The story moved rather slow for me, I felt it lacked the characterization necessary to carry such a small plot. However the piano teachers story is pretty good and I think that's where most of the emotion of the story is. I personally don't see a whole lot of merit to teaching this story especially in the middle school which I am placed now. I suppose like anything if you ask the right questions and dig deep enough you can find all sorts of meaning. However, I don't see kids getting excited about the text and that makes it very hard to engage them in any sort of discussion about it. And as much as I'd love to be an overachiever I can't find any ties to this and Macbeth.
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