Encourage tinkering with ideas, relationships, connections. Set up situations where students have to find information not readily available in school texts. Provide opportunity for students to design open-ended explorations of the concept. Provide multiple options so students can plan a unique "proof" of learning.
Project Choices
Objective: To further focus on maturation.
Activity: Project choices to show Hamlet's maturation process: 1) Hamlet newspapers (groups). 2) Write a parody or poem about Hamlet. 3) Design a graveyard with epitaphs on the tombs for all major characters. 4) Interview major characters in any style (i.e., Oprah, Arsenio, Carson, etc.).
