If you haven't read Macbeth, this won't be as meaningful, but you get the idea.
My 11th grade Honors British Lit kids are so smart and witty that I knew they could do this assignment. I asked them to retell Acts I and II of Shakespeare's Macbeth in a series of tweets. I just had no idea they would be this funny. I love my job.
@weirdsisterz: About to tell Macbeth his future. #upontheheath
@KingDuncan: Loving Macbeth right now. #scotlandwon #newthaneofcawdor
@Macbeth: Thane of Cawdor? Maybe King? #Duncangavemeahug #feelin'thelove #ifthecrownfits
@Banquo: 2nd best. Always forgotten. #crying.
@LadyMac: Just got mail, LOL. #luckyme #futurequeen #hostesswithmostess
@Malcolm: Meet the new prince of Cumberland! #yolo
@Macbeth: Up to no good. #sleepwith1eyeopen #comin4you
@Macbeth: Hallucinating. #bloodydagger #trippy
@LadyMac: Happy wife equals a happy life. #gettin'tipsy #yolo #bye-duncan
@Macbeth: The deed is done. #paranoid #knocking
@Ross: Saw horses eating eachother. #WTF
@porter: Hungover. #welcometohell #stilldrunk #gohardorgohome
@Macduff: Who killed the king? #thisisawkward
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Social Media and Macbeth
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Weird...I was wrapping up Act II and thinking about a new extra credit project when an inspiration came to me...not really, I just got sick of the cell phones I saw out on the desks...MacTwitter.
This is exactly what I had planned on doing, I love your student samples.
I can't wait to set my students loose on this!!
Probably showing my ignorance, but what it yolo??
You Only Live Once.
:)
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