Pre- Will Questions

a) What do you know about Hamlet, the "Melancholy Dane" ?
-- I have not read anything from Hamlet. I for sure has heard about him and knows he has written literature. The definition of "melancholy" is having to do with something sad or gloomy. So I would want to assume that the story is not going to be in such a upbeat mood.

b) What do you know about Shakespeare?
-- Shakespeare was an amazing writer. He wrote poems and discovered new styles of writing poems. His literature was in the romantic period.

c) Why do so many students involuntarily frown when they hear the name "Shakespeare"?
-- Students are not even aware exactly what Shakespeare offers in his literature. They just know that it is going to be a lot of reading and has to deal with romanticism.

d) What can we do to make studying this play an amazing experience we'll never forget?
-- My summer entering freshman year I went to Cal Poly, part of the Upward Bound summer program were we would take classes like English, math and science that will help us prepare for the up coming school year. Well in my freshman English class we read Romeo and Juliet. Our teacher wanted to make it fun for us so we would read the scenes and then we would draw them out on a paper, share how we would imagine the scene and then we would head outside and try and act out the scenes. I enjoyed acting the scenes out because i got us moving and not just sitting down at a desk and just reading/ discussing the reading. We got to be active and creative. Which attracts many people.