Film Studies Daily Log

Thursday, September 1

Students checked out copies of Hamlet.

We went over an assignment to be done online but resulting in a printed document dealing with Shakespearean vocabulary, specifically 100 of the most "Frequently Encountered Words" (FEW) in Shakespeare's works.

We then began to discuss the influence of Shakespeare's plays, along with the King James Version of the Bible (contemorary with Shakespeare), in keeping somewhat alive older usages in English.

HW due Tuesday, September 6:
Complete the FEW exercise by finding and printing out lines from Hamlet using all of your 25 assigned words which appear in the play. (See Documents page of the class website, room301.org.)