30 Post Ideas

Most of my class notes are ideas for posts and approaches to the plays, so I thought I'd gather them all here for easy reference.

1. Post class notes and continue the class conversation.
2. Make connections between the text and my life.
3. Take photographs and add Shakespeare quotes in InDesign.
4. Watch Reduced Shakespeare and comment.
5. Write notes summarizing each scene.
6. Write from the perspective of an actor or director. 
7. Compare multiple cinematic versions.
8. Read children's adaptations or YA spinoff novels (A Loser's Guide to Love and Life, Lady Macbeth's Daughter, Romiette and Julio). 
9. Research historical and cultural contexts, especially censors, relations with France, and the monarchy.
10. Watch the BBC animated versions.
11. Look at interpretations in other cultures or time periods.
12. Write an adaptation or parody.
13. Read two editions that have different footnotes.
14. Write creatively from the perspective of a minor character.
15. Make an analytical argument.
16. Interview someone.
17. Compare the usefulness of different resources.
18. Discuss how reductions and parodies affect Shakespeare literacy.
19. Reply to classmates' blog posts.
20. Find and attend a local performance.
21. Reference the learning outcomes.
22. Post webcomics.
23. Search Twitter.
24. Copy the post formats of blogs I enjoy, like Hyperbole and a Half or Mark Reads/Mark Watches.
25. Compare two plays, like Macbeth to Hamlet.
26. Use literary theory! Campbell would be fun.
27. Look at maps.
28. Do a theoretical teaching plan.
29. Propose a production--"fantasy Shakespeare."
30. Compare Shakespeare to modern playwrights and examine how Shakespeare might treat their stories, or vice versa: How would Shakespeare stage Phantom of the Opera, and how would ALW do Othello?