MACBETH – FACEBOOK NEWSFEED EDITION
15-25 points, depending on how well the text is covered
How much time do you spend on Facebook or other social networking sites? Now’s your chance to use those skills in the classroom.
Create a Facebook Newsfeed Edition of Macbeth. In other words, rewrite the play through Act II as if you were one of the characters making posts and comments, or the friend of a character who sees the posts and makes comments. You can even use short-cut English, as long as we (meaning me—your older, less-hip teacher!) can understand what’s being said.
You will also need to create a fake Facebook page as a cover to your “play.”
See the example by Schmelling below as a guide.
HAMLET
(FACEBOOK NEWSFEED EDITION).
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Horatio thinks he saw a ghost.
Hamlet thinks it's annoying when your uncle marries your mother right after your dad dies.
The king thinks Hamlet's annoying.
Laertes thinks Ophelia can do better.
Hamlet's father is now a zombie.
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The king poked the queen.
The queen poked the king back.
Hamlet and the queen are no longer friends.
Marcellus is pretty sure something's rotten around here.
Hamlet became a fan of daggers.
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Polonius says Hamlet's crazy ... crazy in love!
Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Hamlet are now friends.
Hamlet wonders if he should continue to exist. Or not.
Hamlet thinks Ophelia might be happier in a convent.
Ophelia removed "moody princes" from her interests.
Hamlet posted an event: A Play That's Totally Fictional and In No Way About My Family
The king commented on Hamlet's play: "What is wrong with you?"
Polonius thinks this curtain looks like a good thing to hide behind.
Polonius is no longer online.
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Hamlet added England to the Places I've Been application.
The queen is worried about Ophelia.
Ophelia loves flowers. Flowers flowers flowers flowers flowers. Oh, look, a river.
Ophelia joined the group Maidens Who Don't Float.
Laertes wonders what the hell happened while he was gone.
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The king sent Hamlet a goblet of wine.
The queen likes wine!
The king likes ... oh crap.
The queen, the king, Laertes, and Hamlet are now zombies.
Horatio says well that was tragic.
Fortinbras, Prince of Norway, says yes, tragic. We'll take it from here.
Denmark is now Norwegian.
source: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2008/7/30schmelling.html