JOURNAL TOPIC: [today's tunes: "The End" by The Doors]
Long before we met, and long after you've passed the AP exam and gone on
to greater things, in the end literature is an act
of self-expression. It is the human record of how we create
stories for ourselves and others. And, as we've discussed, literature
also serves as an artifact of how individual authors observed, critiqued
and were influenced by the times and cultures in which they lived. As
Marshal McLuhan famously observed, "The medium is the message." As we've
also discussed, we'd probably get to know Hamlet in a completely
different way if he maintained a blog or posted pics to instagram, tumblr, flickr, pinterest, or...[?] Does the technology we use to communicate change our message? If our message is self-expression, does it therefore change how we are seen or even who we really are?
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Hamlet: Act IV
HW:
1. Read to the end of Act IV Scene 3. If you get the first couple questions right in conversation tomorrow, we'll have no need for a reading quiz.
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