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While we will be reviewing in class, Mr. Cote and I are also offering additional study sessions to discuss Hamlet on Monday 9th, Wednesday 11th & Monday 23rd from 2:30 until approximately 4:30 in room 126.
The format is flexible and the sessions will work to meet the needs of those in attendance.
These sessions are voluntary, but are recommended especially for students who are described by any of the following:
These sessions will allow students to:
It is better that you attend and find that you didn’t need the extra help, than to choose not to attend and find out that you did.
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Below is the Great Performances production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet starring David Tennant (of Dr. Who fame as Hamlet) and Patrick Stewart (of Star Trek: The Next Generation as Claudius) in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of the Bard’s great work.
The setting is modern, but it seems better conceived than the Ethan Hawke version. I find that I quite like this version. I’m interested in your feedback. I may actually begin showing this in class and letting Mel Gibson sit quietly in the drawer for a few years. …
he other night when I was trying to find my favorite poem I felt overwhelmed by the enormity of the task. I’ve read a lot of great poems by a lot of poets I truly admire and choosing one would feel like betraying another. It feels akin to being asked to identify one best friend was when I was in middle school. It invoked emotional paralysis. What if my other friends found out? How would they feel? Would they ever talk to me again?
I know this seems silly and given the state of the world it probably is, but a sense of panic overcame me. I admire so many different poems for so many different reasons, but to call one my favorite would need a great deal more than just my admiration due to one aspect of its craft.
And then it came to me–I didn’t need to choose a poem I’d found; I could choose a poem that found me.
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Need to create your web for your non-fiction project? Click “Read More” to see the video.
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Click “Continue Reading” to see Kenyon’s Recitation of Carl Sandburg’s “I am the People, the Mob” from the 2012 Poetry Out Loud Southern Regional held February 8th at City Theater in Biddeford.
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I’m told that screens were once novel items. People took notice of them because they weren’t everywhere. Now, however, screens are ubiquitous. As I type this I have a laptop in front of me, a secondary display to my left and a large flat screen (at this moment turned off) also available. I’m overwhelmed by screens and yet I can’t seem to get enough of them. Brooke’s reaction to Alcott’s “Television” describes a very similar problem, writing “The television taunts me, ‘I am here for you’ (21) and I listen to it every time.
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