Journal Questions:

August 23: What are your strengths as a writer? Weaknesses? If you could leave this class with one skill or one piece of new knowledge, what would you like it to be?

August 25: What’s your response to Shakespeare so far? What do you like best? Least? What help do you need reading?

August 27: How’s the film? What seems right on? What problematic?

August 30: How does this film version compare to the other? What’s a major difference in interpretation that you see?

Sept. 01: For what purpose are summaries useful? Where/when in your life do you summarize things for people? How do you know when someone who is summarizing something for you is doing a bad or a good job?

What do you think will be hard or easy about summarizing Shakespeare’s play? What do you think you’ll focus on thematically? If you had to produce an outline of the play’s events that you would include in your summary, what would it look like right now?

Sept. 03: What did you notice about the summaries you read in your small groups this morning? How were the summaries the same? What distinguished one from another?

How much quoting should a summary contain? When/What should a summary quote?