CHRIS: Now here's a story of a guy named Shylock,
Spent his life lendin' out money.
They didn't like him 'cause he was Jewish,
He didn't find it all that funny.

MATT: So he started actin' fresh,
Tryin' to get back at Antonio.
He wanted a pound of flesh,
but that threat was phony, yo!


Hamlet, Hamlet, he's the man.
But some people think that he's insane
From his love for Ophelia
MATT: Naw, bro, is she worth the pain?

CHRIS: I know!  I'll think about that one.
Do you think you've got a suggestion?
MATT: I think that dyin' is better.
To be? or not to be?  THAT IS THE QUESTION!


CHORUS:  We mastered English class,
We got through Honors 4,
We had so much fun,
right when we walked through the door!

We mastered English class,
We got through Honors 4,
We 'aint gonna stop,
'till there 'aint no more!


MATT: We've read some Canterbury Tales,
And listened to some pigrims' stories be told,
All written in iambic pentameter,
And THAT is HOW he GOT all HIS books SOLD.

CHRIS: There was a knight, a pardoner, a Wife of Bath,
And others corrupted by power or greed.
The Wife of Bath was favored the most
Because she got all the men to give her what she needs.


CHRIS: So here's a lion, A Lion in Winter, 
Whose family said he's got to go.
The plans spread of the plot against him
You know?
MATT: I know.
CHRIS: I know you know.

MATT: The question was, who'll get the throne?
Richard will, or so he thinks, 
But Johnny's daddy love him best.
He's a stinker.
CHRIS: A stinker.
BOTH: A STINKER AND HE STINKS!


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MATT: Young little Wart wanted to be a knight,
And got his help from this wise man Merlin,
Who taught him (the kid) by transformation
Into animals, with a little wand twirlin'

CHRIS: He was made a knight, and became a king, 
And he fought for justice with all of his might.
MATT: Might?  He made his knights fight?
CHRIS: Yeah bro, he learned that MIGHT'S NOT RIGHT!


CHRIS: I went down (downtown) to the Heart of Darkness
To find this guy who went insane.
Along the way, we got attacked
Or corrupt by a native, it was a pain!

MATT: It seemed like it would take forever,
To find that guy, whose name was Kurtz.
But finally I found him and I took him out.
"The Horror! The Horror!"  OUCH THAT HURTS!


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CHRIS: Exotic, expedient, exploit, exodus,
Expound, facetious, facsimile, fatuous,
Fallacy, fathom, feasible, feign,
felicitous, fetish, FABRICATION!

MATT: Fiasco, filch, finesse, fickle,
Flagrant, flaunt, flout, foible,
Forestall, formidable, fortuitous, frugal, 
Fulsome, futile, FLUCTUATION!

CHRIS: Gape, garble, graphic, gloat,
Gratuitous, grimace, grope, goad,
Grueling, gruesome, gullible, haggard,
Harangue, harbinger, GREGARIOUS!

MATT: Haughty, heinous, ignominy, incarcerate,
Illicit, immunity, immutable, immaculate,
Impasse, impediment, implacable, implicit,
Impugn, incense, IMPERVIOUS!

CHRIS: Obscene, obsession, obsolete, obsequious
Officious, opportune, ostensible, ominous,
Pandemonium, paradox, paraphrase, parochial,
Parody, pensive, OSTRACIZE!

MATT: Peremptory, perjure, permeate, precarious,
Pernicious, persevere, phobia, precocious,
Plaintive, plethora, poignant, predatory,
Prelude, premise, PLAGIARIZE!

CHRIS: Prerogative, procrastinate, prodigious, probity,
Proliferate, promulgate, protracted, propensity,
Prowess, pseudonym, purge, pusillanimous,
Quell, quixotic, PROPITIATE!

MATT: Rase, recant, recrimination, recalcitrant,
Relent, reminiscence, remorse, redundant,
Renegade, repercussion, replenish, reprisal,
Rescind, resilient, RECIPROCATE!

MATT: We haven't done much grammar or oral,
But there's a few things that we've come to know.
"Like"s and "Um"s make yo' speech sound poor,
and the run-on sentences have got to go.

CHRIS: The beginning of class we talk randomly,
Prison Break all the time, it's a little bit scary!
More often than that, Chris comes in the room, and hears
"Pull down your pants, your legs are so hairy!"

MATT: "Boo Hiss" to that, cause we still gotta' pray!
We STILL haven't learned Come, Holy Ghost.
Matt Daly's comin' in every day,
We still don't know who sleeps the most!

CHRIS: Sleep? Ha!  You know we're just kiddin'.
We're listening the first minute to the last.
We learn to take notes and raise our hands, 'cause
WE HAVE MASTERED ENGLISH CLASS!

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