Sunday, January 13, 2013
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The majority of what we have been recently working on has been "Hamlet", and it has been one crazy part of this class. First, I was just trying to understand the context of the story because it really was a struggle to just get any comprehension out of it. For those of you who understood Shakespeare with ease, you're lucky! I had to really work with it. However, with the help of DIDLS and my knowledge of literature and resources I was able to work my way through it. I never realized how much DIDLS would actually come up throughout this class. Diction, imagery, details, language, and syntax was quite apparent throughout EVERY work, article, or essay we have studied throughout this class, and it has mostly come in handy throughout our annotations. There are always those times when you are blanking on things to write in your thousands of notes, but then you remember DIDLS and can figure out something to write down. It actually makes the tedious annotations a little bit easier! I like being able to culminate all of the ideas learned throughout the course and putting it towards the recent studies like "Hamlet".
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Hi Morgan!
ReplyDeleteI agree that Hamlet was sort of crazy! :) Also, props to you for working with and recognizing DIDLS, I tend to forget that we have those, whoops! What "cumulative ideas" are you talking about? Things from our textbook, AP questions, essays, or the other books? I think we have a CM coming up, so try and expand on these other ideas! :)
Erin Donahue
Morgan, I also agree that understanding the language that Shakespeare used was very hard and I definitely struggled with it too.I agree with Erin that you did a good job relating to DIDLS in your post! I often don't realize how much we use this in our everyday class work, but you are right! Another idea that you could include in this post might be to relate the struggle you had in comprehending the play to other plays you have read by Shakespeare. For example we read Romeo and Juliet freshman year! Maybe you could relate those experiences to the ones you have with Hamlet. What do you think? Good job!
ReplyDeleteMorgan I liked how you connected Hamlet back to remembering DIDLS, but you need to expand on that more. The focus of the class hasn't been DIDLS, it's been Hamlet. So in which ways did working with DIDLS help you specifically? Which passages were you able to pick apart using what we had previously learned? Just remember that we'll be using these to study from and will help make remembering what it is we did easier.
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