TedWQT

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 * Goal || Your goal is to effectively explain your external and internal conflicts and seek advice, as well as give advice to others with similar aims. ||
 * Role || You are one of the main characters from Hamlet (any of the royal family or Polonius' family), and you are also a star of the MTV reality show "Shakespeare Group Therapy." ||
 * Audience || Your audience is the blogging community, including other residents of Elsinore who are starting blogs of their own. ||
 * Setting || You don't know how to solve your problems, so you decide to seek advice by writing a blog entry explaining your conflicts. You also decide to offer advice to other characters' situations. Finally, a Kingdom Conflict Specialist brings you and your fellow Danes together to share your feelings, hopefully presenting a peaceful resolution rather than a violent one. ||
 * Presentation || The product is a blog entry explaining your external and internal conflicts and calling for advice, along with comments on others' entries offering advice for their problems from your own perspective. This blog entry will be read aloud in a group therapy session of the kingdom. ||
 * Standards || * The blog entry will be evaluated on content, references, voice, conventions, comments on peers' blogs, and length.
 * The presentation will be evaluated on content, preparedness, enthusiasm, enunciation, posture and eye contact, and respect for peers. ||

=Introduction= Tempest Magazine, an opinion/editorial gossip magazine based in England, wants to cover the events at Elsinore Castle in Denmark as part of its “Royal Catastrophe” series. You are a journalist in Denmark, and you’ve been assigned by the magazine to write stories covering the events at Elsinore Castle. You and a team of writers will write stories “interviewing” different members of the kingdom, and ultimately write opposing opinion pieces on several events of the play Hamlet.

=Task= You have been divided into journalistic teams assigned to interview a character about an event from the play Hamlet. You and your teammates will take turns playing the role of the character you’ve been assigned, and you will ask and answer “interview” questions about various events from the play. To help you do this, you will use internet resources suggesting character motivations and deeper aims. The events you can choose from are: • the Queen’s remarriage • the play • the duel • Hamlet’s exile to England

=Conclusion= Congratulations! Your article has been received on time, and will be included in the next issue of Tempest Magazine. While writing this, you got a chance to look at important events from a perspective you probably wouldn’t have seen at first glance. Try to use this skill when looking at situations in your life in the future.