Shake that spear

    I’ve been team-teaching a Shakespeare class this quarter, and I’ve found a site that has the complete works of William Shakespeare in one place.  Check it out.
    We’ll be using the site today as a place for students to pull quotes from Hamlet as they complete a double-entry journal (Here’s

the easy-cheesy template that we’ll be giving them).  The thinking here is that we’d rather they were writing about their response to the text rather than spending all of their time typing the text that they are responding to.  We’re hoping to have our students put together their own abbreviated scenes from the play, using these double-entry journals as a place to explain why they kept certain lines and got rid of other ones.
    Read more about double-entry journals here, here, or here.  Tell me how you’d rework this activity here.