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101 ways to massacre Shakespeare (Reuters)
Reuters - Bouncy Castle Hamlet, Macbeth with a Sinatra soundtrack, Shakespeare for Breakfast with free coffee and croissants.
Macbeth
SYDNEY -- Baz Luhrmann set the bar high for maverick adaptations of Shakespeare, but fellow Aussie director Geoffrey Wright takes a game leap at it with his postmodern rendering of "Macbeth."...
Complete Macbeth Interactive 1.10
Macbeth taught scene by scene, with dramatic audio readings, geography, movies, questions, immediate feedback, and teacher-friendly scoring, with a focus on language devices and Shakespeare's historical sources. This program contains a user-friendly and intuitive navigation with pleasing graphical interfaces and challenging questions on the text. Involves three of the five senses in a unique approach to teaching the darkest of Shakespeare's works. Created, with all the intelligences in mind, for secondary students.Technorati Tags: macbeth, shakespeare, language arts, AP, teacher tools, lab software, education.Refer:http://www.popsoftlib.com/Home_Education/Teaching_Tools/Complete_Macbeth_Interactive/info-44444.html
Lusting for more wiki action
Here's a topic that promises to spur some online conversations: Nancy Pearl and her Book Lust empire is one of the newest wiki sites on Wetpaint. The beloved Seattle librarian is the subject of what Seattle start-up Wetpaint calls "a community for people who love books." The wiki is apparently a team effort by Wetpaint and Pearl's publisher, Sasquatch Books, the Puget Sound Business Journal reports. I like the feature that lets you "post a question for Nancy." So what does she think it takes to be well-read? A large dose of Shakespeare (King Lear, Hamlet, or MacBeth), some Herman Melville (Moby Dick), the poems of Walt Whitman, The Apology by Plato, and Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. For a different kind of book lover, there's an entire wiki devoted to the DaVinci Code.
Special session may lay groundwork for January
Pignanelli: A twist of Shakespeare's King Macbeth oration offers the best description of the activity surrounding tax reform in the upcoming special session: "a tale ... full of sound and fury, signif...
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The last word on Tom Cruise: "It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; Signifying nothing." ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare Macbeth, in Macbeth, act 5, sc. 5.
Mad About 'Macbeth'
2006 sees two new big screen versions of Shakespeare's tragedy, including a local one set in Melbourne's gangland.
101 ways to massacre Shakespeare (Reuters)
Reuters - Bouncy Castle Hamlet, Macbeth with a Sinatra soundtrack, Shakespeare for Breakfast with free coffee and croissants.
Macbeth
SYDNEY -- Baz Luhrmann set the bar high for maverick adaptations of Shakespeare, but fellow Aussie director Geoffrey Wright takes a game leap at it with his postmodern rendering of "Macbeth."...
Complete Macbeth Interactive 1.10
Macbeth taught scene by scene, with dramatic audio readings, geography, movies, questions, immediate feedback, and teacher-friendly scoring, with a focus on language devices and Shakespeare's historical sources. This program contains a user-friendly and intuitive navigation with pleasing graphical interfaces and challenging questions on the text. Involves three of the five senses in a unique approach to teaching the darkest of Shakespeare's works. Created, with all the intelligences in mind, for secondary students.Technorati Tags: macbeth, shakespeare, language arts, AP, teacher tools, lab software, education.Refer:http://www.popsoftlib.com/Home_Education/Teaching_Tools/Complete_Macbeth_Interactive/info-44444.html
Lusting for more wiki action
Here's a topic that promises to spur some online conversations: Nancy Pearl and her Book Lust empire is one of the newest wiki sites on Wetpaint. The beloved Seattle librarian is the subject of what Seattle start-up Wetpaint calls "a community for people who love books." The wiki is apparently a team effort by Wetpaint and Pearl's publisher, Sasquatch Books, the Puget Sound Business Journal reports. I like the feature that lets you "post a question for Nancy." So what does she think it takes to be well-read? A large dose of Shakespeare (King Lear, Hamlet, or MacBeth), some Herman Melville (Moby Dick), the poems of Walt Whitman, The Apology by Plato, and Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. For a different kind of book lover, there's an entire wiki devoted to the DaVinci Code.
Special session may lay groundwork for January
Pignanelli: A twist of Shakespeare's King Macbeth oration offers the best description of the activity surrounding tax reform in the upcoming special session: "a tale ... full of sound and fury, signif...
untitled
The last word on Tom Cruise: "It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; Signifying nothing." ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare Macbeth, in Macbeth, act 5, sc. 5.
Mad About 'Macbeth'
2006 sees two new big screen versions of Shakespeare's tragedy, including a local one set in Melbourne's gangland.
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