Here's a neat project for students to do after reading a longer text and it incorporates technology into the curriculum. Have them create a series of Twitter tweets detailing events from the plot. For authenticity, have them create a real Twitter account and use a hashtag that has your name and other identifying information in it. Here's an example of one for Hamlet:
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
| @OedipusGothplex My royal father gone and nobody seems to care. Mom says to stop wearing black. STOP TRYING TO CONTROL ME. I won't conform! I wish my skin would just … melt. I'm too sad to notice that Ophelia's so sexy and fine. And mother also looks rather fair despite all her struggles. AN APPARITION! This sh*t just got HEAVY. Apparently people don't accidentally fall on bottles of poison. Why is Claudius telling me what to do again? YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD! In fact you killed my real dad. :( 2bornt2b? Can one tweet beyond the mortal coil? I wrote a play. I hope everyone comes tonight! 7pm! Tickets are free w/ great sense of irony. Uncle just confessed to Dad's murder. I had a knife to that fat a**hole but bitched out. Now he's alive and still taking to bed with that beautiful wo— … er, my mother. Gonna try to talk some sense into Mom because boyfriend totally killed Dad. I sense this is the moment of truth, the moment of candour and – WTF IS POLONIUS DOING BEHIND THE CURTAIN? I just killed my girlfriend's dad. Does this mean I can't hit that? Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are here, up to their shenanigans. YAWN. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. Anyone miss them? Didn't think so. The gravedigger's comic speech isn't funny at all. It's heavy and meaningful. Just send me YouTube vids instead, pls. I am so borrredddd. Ophelia just pulled a Virginia Woolf. Funeral is on the morrow. Laertes is unhappy that I killed his father and sister. What a drama queen! Oh well, fight this evening. Anybody want a drink? Uh-oh. That went poorly. @PeopleofDenmark: Don't worry. Fortinbras will take care of thee. Peace. |
