Peer Reflections.

I chose to read Alicia's and Mallory's paper.

First for Alicia's
This was easy for me to think about
because i automatically connected it to my own paper
as far as reaching out to new level sources
i think it would be a great thing to work into
this idea of the importance of integrating technology
to create a Shakespeare-ience

aside from that there are a lot of teacher forums
that accept paper and thoughts and topics

i specifically looked on Edutopia for further research
they have a whole section
about Integrating Technology into the Curriculum
--why, how, what, and examples
its really a cool site!

As for Mallory's ---I had no idea this is what you were looking into!!!
i guess now that i think about it i guess i kinda knew
but when i first looked at your paper i was like WHAT!? haha

This is a really interesting idea
it reminds me of a post i put up a while back
it was mid research paper so i didnt get to look at it
but it shows this idea of all the different ways and places Shakespeare is being taught

this is a whole class taught on the transnational Shakespeare
(finding other interesting classes at all these different universities
just makes me want to transfer and be a student for life sometimes)

-oh and now i see you found something else from the same guy
still cool though

this discusses the ideas of the Shakespeare brand name
by looking at google results
-very interesting

i dont know if i am completely missing the point
but it also reminds me of an activity i saw
when i was researching for my own paper
about having Shakespeare penpals
and one student pretending to be Shakespeare
or one of the characters

just thoughts

but i love what you posed on your blog about your ideas
for where to take this paper from here
by encouraging professors to move forward
and your money analogy was awesome

i feel like there is a good connection
between the three of us
that we could blend into making this idea of a Shakespeare-ience
by combining this idea of a need for technology
an over arching global Shakespeare
and the manner by which to approach it all

i dont know if i am just pushing my wants and ideas
but it seems like a fabulous idea to me!

the "final"-ish paper and post post.

I present to you the final-ish paper




I say final-ish because i knew what was wrong with it
and what needed to be done better
i knew that i had way too many things to talk about
but you also get to that point
where you are just done
you dont want to look at it again
or you are so far in that it isnt worth it to change things

it is funny
because the other girls in class were discussing how
it feels so good to be able to go in a know what the teacher is going to say
that way you dont have a huge let down when the teacher is like
this sucks.

overall i was very pleased with my paper
--even though as for content there is some lacking
i think the process went well
and i got everything done in a timely manner
---not the night before!!

Dr Burton and I discussed a lot about my topic
i feel that there is definitely discussion that needs to be made with this

We had the idea of making what he coined the "Shakespeare-ience"
this kinda goes into the idea of like the "Shakespeare in Bits"
some sort of format where you are having a Shakespeare Experience
rather than just reading the play
--something that teachers every where could use
to make learning Shakespeare awesome.

this needs a lot more brain storming of how to do it...
i envision maybe a choose you own adventure type
or i really wish it could be a whole body experience
like step into this machine.
lets go for a ride.
a shakespeare ride.

(side note. I just googled "experience learning"
--i think this may be some potential in looking into)

I am excited to do something new.
i hope that it can be very hands on
and creative...
that is sorta what i thrive on ha

more on my tweethis.

So i reposted my thesis on Facebook and got some more response

take a look here

it is always so interesting to see people's thoughts

i feel a tad too far to incorporate these things into my paper but this is interesting to see!

word processing success and thoughts

I love the point you get to when you feel good about your paper
you have enough material
the ideas are flowing well
everything is coming together

i have really enjoyed this research paper
i feel that it has come together well and is working well

like i said before, i just wish i had started writing sooner
i wish there was an easier way to do research papers
that didnt require so much lengthy composing too

maybe short blog posts research papers? like a series?
but that gets away from the typical research paper

where education is moving away from traditional requirement
i do hope that having to write long papers phases out as well
before i graduate haha

but overall
this has been good
and not so last minute like i typically do!

so bravo Senor Burton.
i think you have overall crafted a good process for writing research papers

things to keep in mind when i start teaching

yay!

thats all haha
just my thoughts

tweethis results.

As i have blogged before, I posted my shortened thesis on Facebook and Twitter

I didnt have as much response as I was hoping
but at least I was expecting a lack of response
(I wont go into why haha)

As far as Twitter... I didnt get any response
I was expecting that because I dont use Twitter
but I did have an English teacher start following me!

(as well as some random porn fake accounts...)

But on facebook I had a couple responses
I had one teacher who commented on how she always tries to find ways to spice things up
I also had another teacher comment that he felt ALL teaching needs to be modernized

That just got me thinking about how while this paper focuses directly on Shakespeare
There really is this over all problem with the teaching techniques that are happening in schools everywhere
and while the government has mandated new core curriculum and instated the no child left behind,
I wonder if things are really changing?

I have had some people say to me "well i love Shakespeare;  I had a great experience"
and that makes me sad because i feel that people are blind to what is happening in our schools
people are blind to the fact that there are a lot of students struggling
and even if it isnt A LOT or an huge statistic

shouldnt every student be able to succeed?

I think people need to be careful about making blanket assumptions that they had a good experience so it must not be a problem -- and this applies to everything!

alright



i dont know how i got off on that haha

but I am noticing a trend that everyone seems to be at the same place with our papers
-- i see that place as a place of needing more time. more hours in the day. more bodily energy.
more time to allow the papers to develop and come together more.
just too many things in too short of time.

I feel like now I spent too much time on social proof and trying to bring everything together
when i should have been spending more time on the actual paper writing

dont you wish you had a  time turner sometimes....

rough rough draft. in progress.

I decided that there was no reason for me to stay up all last night
and stay up all tonight to finish my rough draft.

Not only would it produce a very low quality paper, but I like to sleep

and as i posted earlier, i am currently stuck in a non word processing rut
so i will slowly work on it and let it come to me instead of me force it

so i invite you to comment and watch my progress-- you might even see me typing live...  (thats scary now that i think about it)

just dont judge me haha

you will have to have to click the "here" link in the viewer below or you can view and comment here!

to comment with in the text, right click and click "comment"
Thank you!

Updated note: This now shows what I turned in as my final draft.

****to post your own draft into you blog like mine:

1. go to this site, paste in your Google Doc URL
2. cut and paste the "For an embedded viewer, use this HTML tag instead:" 
3. paste that html into your blog post
4. AND! you then have to change your options on the right of your post creator to "Compose mode: Interpret typed HTML"

If you have questions, email me :)

Phase 2 of Research Paper. Progress Report.

<regurgitate>

Progress Report: Phase 2 of Research Paper

I'm required to document my research and writing process for the Shakespeare research paper I'm doing this month. According to the assignment instructions, here are the components I must include. If I have met those requirements, I have included a link to a post or posts that document my efforts for that component:

Phase 2
Performance Analysis: 1
Annotated Bibliography: 1
Digital media and online resources: 1 2
Social Proof (contacting): 1

</regurgitate>

My working thesis right now is:

The teaching of Shakespeare in secondary schools needs to consist of scaffolding the learning, active learning strategies, and breaking up the text so that modern day learners may more readily access the traditional materials in a world of new age learning.

I feel really good about where I am with my research and ideas.
I just feel like i need more time.
I need to pull it all together more into words, and the idea of the final being due in a week makes me panic a little.
I cant believe how fast the time has went! Next week is March!

I still need to just move forward in putting everything into words.
Having a draft due tomorrow will definitely help that in being forced...

but i want to talk about the three thing i state in my thesis
hopefully this in enough
i might work in a paragraph on technology

as me and Dr Burton were briefly discussing I think I will explain my arguments and then use examples with textual analysis

But I posted my (super shortened) thesis on Facebook:

We will see what happens....
my last post didnt generate a lot of response

I also posted on twitter but i dont follow anyone or do any tweeting...
so we will also see what happens!

yay!

annotated biblio

the only bad thing about going to the library as an english major is that instead of coming back with one book you come back with this:

The hard thing for me making an annotated bibliography is  that I still have so many sources that they need trimming a lot.
and then as i keep slowly getting emails back from people they keep leading me towards more sources
a while back i said i needed an outline and i think i still do hahah

Sources:

Grierson, Sirpa. Personal interview. 16 February 2012.

Dr. Grierson gave me some great suggestions. She stressed the importance of making Shakespeare real with the students and trying to bring to life how Shakespeare was in his time. She suggested the use of videos to show the Globe theater and set up the play to experience it in the three levels that were experienced by the different classes. That way you are making Shakespeare more relevant to the students. She also suggested to break the text up into "big chunk, little chunk" (breeze over a big chunk, focus in dept on a little chunk) as outlined by Kelly Gallagher so that students are not overwhelmed with the who text of the play. One thing that was interesting that she stated was that when she studied Shakespeare as a child in Canada she danced and sang and they worked completely hands on, so that was very important to her  in her suggestions to me. 

Salmone, Ronald E., and James E. Davis. Teaching Shakespeare into the Twenty-First Century. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1997. Print.

I found this book after searching in the library for "Shakespeare and teaching." I believe that the original book that had the call number for was not what I was looking for, but this was close by! Even though this book is a tad older (reminding me of this), it still has some great ideas and discusses the idea of bringing Shakespeare alive in the classroom to engage reluctant readers. The last section is more modern.

"Teachers Set Free: Folger Education and Other Revolutionary Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare ." English Journal 99.1 (2009): 13 February 2012. National Council of Teachers of English. Web.

I believe I ran across this after I one of the articles I had looked at before was taken off of the website I originally found it on. Now I know this is a whole journal, but it is a WHOLE journal just about teaching Shakespeare! So I am having a hard time narrowing it... By my final paper it will be narrowed. This issue is awesome because it talks all about the ways to teach Shakespeare right now. 

Goodwyn, Andrew. English in the Digital Age. New York, NY: Cassell, 2000. Print.

I found this when looking for "teaching 21 century" in the library. This search also generated the five extra books I brought home. The thing I found interesting about this book is that it specifically brings up the problem of teaching Shakespeare and other traditional materials in our "digital age." 

Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. New York, NY: Washington Square Press, 1992. Print.

This is my original text that I am using. I feel it is one of the most commonly taught plays in schools, and it is also one of my favorites. 

So like I said I also have 5 other books.  And then I got an old book of teaching activities specifically for Macbeth. The other 5 books I found when looking for teaching in the 21st century. I am not sure if I will use the other 5. Three of them are about teaching with ICT. One is about adolescent literacy and teaching reading, and the last one is about teaching today and advocating changes in the curriculum. The last one is probably most likely that I will use.

My working thesis right now is:

The teaching of Shakespeare in secondary schools needs to consist of scaffolding the learning, active learning strategies, and breaking up the text so that modern day learners may more readily access the traditional materials in a world of new age learning.

I know this will change, but thats my quick idea.
The hardest thing i need to address is that I had one of the people i emailed email back and suggest i was over generalizing so  I need to figure out how to state that. She said that she felt there wasnt a problem in teaching Shakespeare so that is something I more need to think about

but more on my emails back later.

Scotland, PA

first off.. spoilers. i do warn you where and when they are over though.

I watched Scotland, PA
I ordered a copy of the DVD

I love this movie
it is just so funny to me

but it is a modern adaptation of Macbeth from Sundance Film Festival

it is pretty much the story of Macbeth set in modern times
at a 70's burger joint
it is really genius and one of my most favorite movies

I think that this was a really interesting to take this story and make it into a modern interpretation
the writer did an interesting things in keeping with the plot line but changing little details to make it interesting

First i love the way they incorporated the names in with "mac" and "banko"
it is so funny when the stoner hippy fortune teller is talking about seeing someone named "el banko"
i like how the adaptation found a way to keep the witches by making them into these like stoner people
the sons also were written in really well to match their characters in the play with one son who wants to be in a band and the other who wants to leave and go do play stuff

One thing I wanted to look and mention was the casting of characters
because i think that this is such a big part of film adaptations
First off, i loved Maura Tierney
i grew up watching her in ER and she does a really good job at Lady Macbeth
I also feel like the other characters are played very well
Mac and Pat's chemistry works well for what you expect out of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth

this is where the spoilers begin.

I love the incorporation of the famous "out damned spot"
it is so funny and ironic the way they work it in with Pat's burn on her hand
and how she tries to get it to go away but cant
and then she finally cuts her hand off

end spoilers. that wasnt so bad

I liked the transfer of the plot from a kingdom to a burger empire
i feel this is ironic in how Mcdonalds almost owns America these days
it surprisingly works well for the plot

the film is rated R, so this definitely gives it an edge
you couldnt ever use it in a classroom
but perhaps parts of the scenes or get it editted
it really just has some sexuality and language

but that was one of the other things i wanted to bring up and talk about
is how Shakespeare is till made accessible for adults
many people watching this movie may have not read Macbeth in 10 years
so this is just a small thing to get them back into the play
that why i really like this film is because it is so updated and accessible for people like me

i think that if adults are more into Shakespeare
there is a better chance for children to get into Shakespeare
because it will be cool and popular and the thing you cant wait to do when you are old
.....just like alcohol in a way haha and all things "adult"

Digital Media: Shakespeare in Bits

So I previously mentioned that I found Shakespeare in Bits

which is an awesome company that is making these interactive programs for Shakespeare!

It is funny because I had mentioned it in my last post and the creator commented on the post giving me his information to get a hold of him directly!

I went ahead and downloaded all of the trials.

and i love them! i think that is it such a cool thing for students to use!

you should really download it for yourself just to see how cool it is 

here are some screen shots of the Macbeth version

Each play has an animated clip and text to follow along with
the text in annotated with  important things students may need to know
it also has note on the acts and a synopsis

It also has an analysis section with all sorts of key important things for students to know

there is a "cast" section that goes through each character and gives you important details

this is also great for a play like Macbeth where everyone is name Mac-blahblahblah

with in the cast section there is also a character interaction section 

i absolutely love this creation.

in a future classroom where students will probably have Ipads or tables or computers

a teacher could use this to make the text interesting and approachable

and also be able to use all of the text rather than having to trim it!

I then think the teacher could supplement this with hand on activities. 

go download it now!! and tell all your friends :)

i emailed the creator and am anxiously awaiting a reply because this is so awesome!!
another one of those things that makes me want to go teach shakespeare right now.

contacting people.

So I have been working on contacting all of my people.
This is basically what I have been emailing them --of course updated to fit them:

"Hello,

I am a student studying to become an English teacher in Utah at Brigham Young University. Currently I am in a class studying Shakespeare. I am doing some research and looking into the methods that are used in teaching the bard. I am looking to and making an argument that Shakespeare teaching needs to be changed from the current and traditional way that is being used. I have read many of your articles from the Folger blog and have even discussed you on my class project blog (pinatara382.blogspot.com). I feel that you have some great insight into this topic and some very valid ideas and topics.

My thesis I am working towards is that the teaching of Shakespeare should be more of a spiral or scaffolding approach and needs to be much more hands on. I have heard this idea that when teaching a play a teacher should breeze over a big chunk and then focus in on a little important chunk. I also think that teaching Shakespeare needs to be updated with working in the 21st technology we have. I think that teachers could almost teach everything with in the curriculum by simply deeply exploring a play so that students are very comfortable with it. Right now I feel that teacher just breeze over a play to say they read it with out working with students to really get into it to an extent. Otherwise, if teachers do not implement these ideas, I feel that Shakespeare study in schools may completely fade out because our new age brains can't seem to handle the current methods of just simply reading it.

Would you be will to share some insights towards my working thesis and ideas if you have a moment to spare? Or even if you have some good sources that I may be interested in I would gladly welcome that as well. I also encourage you to take a look at my blog as well if you have time and feel free to comment there if anything jumps out at you.

Thank you so much for your time and effort. I look forward to hearing back from you!"

So far I have met with Dr. Sirpa Grierson in our BYU English teaching department.

I have emailed:

Mike Lo Monico who writes on the Folger Shakespeare Education blog and has mention many things concerning the change of teaching Shakespeare

Christy Desmet who is a professor of Shakespeare for over 25 years AND!!! she teaches a class at her university specifically for educators called "Shakespeare in the Classroom"!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so excited when I realized this!

I also contacted many of the authors from the NCTE English Journal, Vol. 99, No. 1, September 2009

I have stumbled across Dana Huff's website many times and saw she had a page all about Shakespeare so I emailed her

I found this really cool Shakespeare in Bits program that is an interactive program that students and teachers can use to read Shakespeare. I tried emailing them, but I dont know if I will get through to the creators.

I am excited to hear back! It is really nerve racking though!

love and luck.

I love when you accidentally stumble upon a wealth of awesome things that are exactly what you need.

case in point

English Journal, Vol. 99, No. 1, September 2009
a whole issue all about teaching Shakespeare

i now am working through contacting like 20 people instead of the few i had

Also when I met with Dr Grierson she gave me some great ideas and pointed me in a few directions and also gave me the link to her own personal wiki with Shakespeare teaching articles!

Great digital media sources!

Phase 1 of Research Paper. Progress Report.

Let me give you some copy and paste regurgitation....

however, don't get me wrong. 

i love an opportunity to be lazy

and when everything is made so easy

thank you Dr B.

Progress Report: Phase 1 of Research Paper
I'm required to document my research and writing process for the Shakespeare research paper I'm doing this month. According to the assignment instructions, here are the components I must include. If I have met those requirements, I have included a link to a post or posts that document my efforts for that component:

Phase 1: Feb 6-11
Exploration: I have done a lot of this... 1 2 3 4
Textual Analysis: 1
Social Proof (finding): 1 2

Phase 2: Feb 13-18
Performance Analysis
Annotated Bibliography
Digital media and online resources
Social Proof (contacting): 1 2

Phase 3: Feb 20-25
"Tweethis" statement
Posted draft with peer interaction
Evaluation of a peer's draft

</regurgitate>

So I am focusing on the use of outside sources in studying Shakespeare
the importance of not studying in isolation
i want also want to focus on how Shakespeare has become a "folklore" of sorts in our society
and how much there is able to learn and engage from the studying of others adaptions

As far as what is working well, I am really enjoying working in the small groups
I almost feel like we should be taking it to a next level rather than just "reporting"
so we need to maybe work more on our papers together or im not sure

I could work more on my structuring and really deciding what I am doing
so perhaps an outline and a plan

i wish i would have started rereading the text sooner
because when i started working directly with the text
it got my shakespeare analytic juices flowing
rather than my broader teaching ideas

from this point i want to start looking at adaptations
and how they are insightful to specific parts of the text
also i want to contact my people i have scoped out
and then after i get it all laid out
i want to approach some teachers and see their thoughts

phonebook notes

Dr Burton Suggested we make an annotated contact list
of the people we wanted to use for our social proof
so those people we wanted to contact with our ideas and see their opinion.

I dont remember what brought me to these sources
but these are my ideas:

i just put a shout out on Facebook to my friends for their thoughts
so we will see what I get....

on this forum there are several teachers and several professors
if you look at the look at bottom there are people
who talk specifically about the teaching with inclusion of pop culture

I found this interesting article about teaching Shakespeare with YouTube
of course after I read the article, I think it would be interesting to contact her

this author talks about how she has personally used modern interpretations to teach shakespeare
i think it would be interesting to talk to her about her success and if she thinks it should be a standard

this harry potter fan discusses how by studying Queen Hermione from A Winter's Tale gives insight to Hermione from HP as well as my original comparing Macbeth and Harry Potter
I would love to discuss her feelings if she felt like it is beneficial to look at Shakespeare from this view

This article about Teaching Shakespeare through Film and TV highlights the importance of why the text should not be just read as well as may offer other good sources

Kelli Marshall is lover of pop culture and Shakespeare and I want to see her thoughts on intertwining the two

Mike Lomonico posts for the Folger Education blog often specifically about teaching Shakespeare to students I would be interested in his thoughts because from the impression i have gotten he seems to encourage directly using the text
there is also some twitter conversation there with him that might be interesting to get involved with

After I have some solid research and ideas and have contacted these people above
i would love to run this all by some actual teachers and people focused on teaching
ie from my previous post

• teacher of teachers
• -Prof Wing -teaches introductory teaching classes
• -Dr Grierson -teaches reading comprehension
• department chair in a high school
• -Tara Henderson
• high school teachers that tend to be less traditional
• -Chantey Webb
• -Kellie Miller
• -Michelle Wennerstrom

Any other ideas?

and ps. i feel weird asking questions at the end of my post but i feel like that draw out some feedback 

paper narrowing

so in the mornings when i am getting ready for school
i normally will quickly scan through my social media feeds
on my phone and i have made a rule i cant get on the computer
well this morning I had to break  that rule when I found
this article comparing Macbeth and Harry Potter
let me tell you how excited I was

So what I have decided to focus more on is
learning Shakespeare through modern interpretations
not only may it be more engaging for students
but it also is able to show a lot of things
like how influential Shakespeare is in our society
to the point where his tales are almost ingrain into everyday life

so for example, with Macbeth
comparing it with Harry Potter -a story that most students would know- teaches a further understanding of motive and should help students to better see another way into understand complex characters
looking at art renditions should help to teach character analysis

So I want to show the importance of Macbeth in particular
not being taught in seclusion of just Shakespeare and the text
and more being taught in the context of Shakespeare is in everything

and I dont know how I would quite tie this in
but i have thought a lot about what Bri is looking into
with how Shakespeare is so much folklore
and how Shakespeare was the pop culture of his time teaching the folklore
and how our new pop culture is teaching the folklore of our time being that of Shakespeare
so she is moving backwards with that idea and i am looking forward

What do you think?
Does it sound better than my mess before?

Can you think of any other important things?

Teaching Our New Age Brains

I am trying a new thing of posting from the app on my phone so if anything is weird in this post take that for the explanation

first off I feel like i should officially introduce my research paper
it will be a non traditional approach. see more details here
there are a few of us that are looking at things related to education

What I am interested in looking at is the benefits in incorporating different formats for a better  comprehension of Shakespeare and looking with Macbeth specifically

I have talked a lot about the idea of scaffolding teaching. To explain this in more depth --scaffolding is the idea that your pedagogy should build on each other so you.should start with easy ideas and build baby steps on top of the easier ideas with harder ideas to create a complete learning experience

As i was talking to my class peers I was reassured that this is definitely something important because our new age brains require different ways of learning because we are so.distracted. we also talked about how it is important to include multiple modalities or multiple ways for students to learn because not everyone learns just from reading

so that "socially proved" my idea that i want to look into how Shakespeare and Macbeth provide perfect content for our new age brain's requirements I want to look into infographics that Profe Burton suggested, as well as art and character development, actual performance and perhaps other things

The main thing I am worried about is making this more of a research paper rather than a complex lesson plan.... what do you think? Do you think it is not research material or is there a way you see I should tweek it?

research paper woes.

I keep going back and forth on what I want to look into
i think a lot of it has to do with seeing what everyone else is doing
and i must still not quite fully understanding the details of the assignment yet

What i have come down to is looking into
the importance of Shakespeare being taught correctly through scaffolding
for students to leave with valuable things all in one unit

i have the idea of looking at how Shakespeare
being taught in schools by scaffolding the material
has greater benefits for students in many ways like:
reading comprehension
learning history, folklore
seeing Shakespeare's influence in our world

and i want to use Macbeth as my play

I feel like there are a lot of people I could talk to about this

My list I have thought of so far:
teacher of teachers
-Prof Wing -teaches introductory teaching classes
-Dr Grierson -teaches reading comprehension
department chair in a high school
-Tara Henderson
Shakespeare enthusiast?
Folger Shakespeare blog writers
-there have specifically been bloggers that talk about scaffolding
Students in high school

Shakespeare's Hamlet as a Diagram

I am so excited!
I heard back from the graphic design artist on etsy that I talked about in this post
and I got a response back from her!

As she described herself on her Etsy description

"I’m a graphic designer and photographer living in Stockholm, Sweden. After a little more than a decade focusing on commercial work, I have opened my mind again towards the artistic side of myself. I’m educated at Forsbergs School of Design in Stockholm, Sweden, and I also hold an MA with Distinction from Central Saint Martins, London, UK."

So I have been interested in adaptations
and have considered this for my research paper somehow
but when I found this piece I was interested in her work with the play
and how she made it
and her take on it

My original letter was:

"Hello,
I am studying English at Brigham Young University in Utah. Currently I am taking a class about Shakespeare. We are studying Hamlet specifically right now. As I was doing some research about the play, I ran across your diagram and was interested in it. For my class, we have been looking into unique adaptations and modern usages of Shakespeare. If you have time, I was hoping that you could answer some question to help further my research for my class. How did you go about creating this diagram? Are you a big fan of Hamlet or what drew you to using this play in particular for your creation? How is the diagram organized? (it is hard to see what exactly it all is in the pictures) How did you decide what to include?
Thank you so much for your time! I look forward to hearing from you!
-Tara"

She very promptly replied:

"Hello Tara,

I did it over ten years ago as a school project. Then I had it in the drawer for several years before I thouht it was too good to stay there. I’m not sure I remember all thaughts I had when I created it, but I borrowed the play from the library, read it, and made my interpretation of it into the diagram format. I’m not specifically any Shakespeare fan, it was more that I wanted to find a story that a lot of people are familiar with. At the moment I work on a new piece, just made a first draught to turn Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita into a diagram, at the same time my contribution to ”The Sketchbook Project”:www.arthousecoop.com/users/wah/artwork
Hope this anwered your questions… Good luck with your Shakespeare studies!

Helena"

I think her response shows how much Hamlet transcends and how important Shakespeare is in literature.
I think it is very cool that
she specifically chose it because wanted something popular that people would know
so that goes back to showing how import and transcending Hamlet is

and if you want to take it another level how important and transcending the stories
from the "Saxo Grammaticus’ History of Denmark or as it is properly called Gesta Danorum"

So this is what I am think about working into my paper somehow
I am struggling to figure out how though
and what
and how
haha

i obviously just struggle some times


but with all of that i thought that her adaption was cool
and even taking it back to teaching as always....
if students were looking at the diagram or even creating one for themselves,
this type of visual could be so helpful for students in grasping plot line!


I also would have posted this all sooner
but, i was in Moab for the weekend.

However, i found something really cool
and I wish I could have looked at it more
but check out these beauties:

(if you click on the picture, it makes them larger!)

while i wish i could remember the dates on them
they were old book in a rare book store
that had been bound hundreds of years ago
with print of the folios in them

they were so cool!

if i only had the money to buy them.

that just add to the many thing i wish i had the money to buy

but if you are ever passing through moab
you should stop in and see them
whether they are anything special or not
they were cool!

and on a super side side note just for your interest
they have a replica first edition book of mormon
that was made to look exactly like a real one
and some guy brought it in a tried to sell it off as an original one
so that was also cool to look at.
$500 to own but cool.

in which tara takes on her mind.

I always seem to struggle with hearing other people's ideas about their research
and then i get more excited about what they are doing than my own idea.

For my research paper, I really love Macbeth.
It is just a strange passion of mine.
and that should be obvious from my blog title and stuff
so i have thought about focusing specifically on this play
--i dont know how though

but i have done a little bit of research with the last few plays about
the play sources and where Shakespeare seems to be getting his ideas and plot lines

I like this idea for a research paper
but i am struggling narrowing it down and making it work
(of course that is hard when i dont know the specifics even of the paper yet haha)

i also am kind of interested in the sexuality within the plays ---also very broad...yet very racy and interesting!
or adaptations... who doesnt love adaptations..
maybe shakespeare and teaching?

i am just really fighting my brain in a thumb war
of coming up with something really edgy and obscene
and something that interests me and seem as cool as everyone else's ideas

or maybe something with the modernization of shakespeare?
what if combined my ideas into one?

this may make something entirely all too huge
but maybe i could focus in more on one thing or one play
i have an idea of perhaps looking at how plays are modernized with:
-"translating" them into modern english ie No Fear
-changing the plot lines into modern stories with looking at movies like Scotland PA and Macbeth
-maybe working in Shakespeare's sources with how he rewrote known stories with plays to begin with

 this feels like an all too large and wild of an idea...

but, in continuance of this source research i have been doing