A Fun Collection of Information on Topics Relating to Hamlet

Because of the timing of our exciting field trip, we are going to be using Hamlet as a central text during poetry boot camp (yeah, I know, it’s a play, but it’s got some dynamite poetry…). Before we begin reading, though, we need to accumulate some knowledge to apply to the text. So your job this weekend is to look into one of the following topics and prepare a blog entry of information about the topic. I strongly encourage you to choose something you know very little about but that sounds interesting to you. Your hand out can be a bulleted list, a descriptive page – whatever you want – but you have to write it (no cutting and pasting) and it has to be based on more than one source. If you use Wikipedia, be sure to cross-check the information. I prefer university sites myself. In your entry, please include links to interesting sites. We can only have two entries on any given topic, so get this done early if your topic really matters to you!

Grading criteria:

· Must be about a page long.
· Must include links to at least two sites and some information about what we might find on the site.
· Cannot repeat another entry; no more than two entries per topic

This grade goes into class participation, so it can help those of you who haven’t talked much. Please post your entry as a comment to this post!

How to post a link: Highlight a word that you would like to serve as the link. Then, click the link button on the toolbar (it's in the middle, to the left of the alignment options, and it's green) and type/paste the url you are linking.

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