Hamlet yo!
Submitted by Aidian Jamison-Frank on Thu, 05/15/2008 - 12:44.
So we, english 9 orange, have been reading Hamlet for a bit. It's quite interesting despite the difficult language. To help with understand the text, we each have a Hamlet audio playlist for listening, and we've been watching the movie in class. The movie has been helping the most. Unfortunately almost daily we take a quiz regarding what we were to read the night before. The quiz has about 3-4 quotes from the text, and asks us to translate the text into modern language, and then explain its significants. These quizzes haven't been adding anything to my learning nor have been enriching the text, in fact I find the book less enjoyable to read when I know I'm going to be tested on the matter the following day. In the end, I'll just be glad to be finished with Shakespeare.
That in and of itself is basically all English class has been for the past few weeks. Reading Hamlet, talking about Hamlet, watching the movie Hamlet and taking quizzes on Hamlet. I wonder what'll we be doing next. I hope it'll be more enjoyable than this. For some reason, and I'm not the only one who thinks like this, reading a book for school, no matter what the book is, is so much less enjoyable than reading the same book on your own time. Its the idea of being forced to do something, anything, that takes so much away from reading and enjoying a book.
-Aidan
