Liz’s Blog

Dear New Students in Mrs. Duke’s Class,
 
I know that when you first found out Mrs. Duke was going to be your English teacher the first thing you probably did was freak out, because that is what most people do.  There have been so many rumors about how hard the class is and about the huge [...]

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Dear Simon Russell Beale,
I really enjoyed your reading of Hamlet. My high school English class just got finished “reading” it, but we really listened to you read it for the most part. I liked it better that way; because I would much rather listen to you read it then read it myself. [...]

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Dear Mr. Kenneth Branagh,
 
I really enjoyed your performance of Hamlet!  Our English class was reading it this year and we only watched the last act to see how the performance compared and went along with our reading of it.  Most of the characters were exactly how I envisioned them and the set was perfect!  I [...]

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In this soliloquy, Hamlet is talking about whether or not he is going to kill himself.  He is in so much pain and has so much grief that he doesn’t know what to do. He says that because no one knows what to expect after death, they would rather live with the bad things that [...]

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First things first.  I realized that I have been spelling Rosencrantz’s name wrong the whole time.  Instead of calling him Ros I have been calling him Roz.  Sorry everyone!
Okay so before I even started reading this part I knew exactly what was going to happen.  There had been so much foreshadowing and it was completely [...]

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I thought this section made Hamlet even more easier to understand. As character development continued in Hamlet with Ros and Guil we get a better understanding on what these characters are about. Whenever Hamlet enters dragging Polonius’ body it really ties the two plays together. That is such a great example of intertextuality.This makes me [...]

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Now that I have a better understanding of Hamlet, this story makes so much more sense to me.  When i read the first part of this book I had NO CLUE who Roz and Guild were.  I was so so so confused and became even more confused when they started talking about The Players.  The [...]

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So, Ros and Guild start off with bags of coins and are flipping them.  Whenever a coin lands on heads, Ros gets to keep it.  It lands on heads so many times that Guild wonders how that can happen so much.  They both think about how a coin can land on heads so many times, [...]

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Whenever I hear the word drama the first thing that comes to mind is high school girls.  I know that drama is when a bunch of stupid things happen between girls and everyone exaggerates and freaks out.  I also think about Shakespeare.  I think Shakespeare was the first plays and dramas we read in school.  I [...]

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This week two more groups presented their projects on the Canterbury Tales.  The Wife of Bath group made each did individual blogs, a close reading and sketch of the Wife of Bath, a quotebook, artsy activities, wrote a paper, and made some pretty cool pants.  The pants were very symbolic and represented the themes and [...]

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