Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Green Eggs and Hamlet

a) What do you know about Hamlet, the "Melancholy Dane"?
-I know that there's a ghost and I'm pretty sure that Hamlet is trying to marry his mom or something else strange like that.

b) What do you know about Shakespeare?
-I know that Shakespeare created a lot of new words, wrote a lot of plays, and was married to a woman named Anne Hathaway.

c) Why do so many students involuntarily frown when they hear the name "Shakespeare"?
-Shakespeare wrote a long time ago which means the language and word usage was different than it is today, and on top of that sometimes Hamlet just made up words as he went along so students have to learn to read old English and Shakespeare speech.

d) What can we do to make studying this play an amazing experience we'll never forget?
-Assign watching the Mel Gibson version along with our reading, linking to youtube clips on the blog.

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