Annotating

Social Graph:

• My two oldest sisters – both English BA graduates with great insight and actual interest in literature and connecting it to the world outside of the English major’s mind.
• My mom – a high school English teacher who spends most of her days actually teaching Shakespeare. She’s brilliant and spends a lot of time connecting Shakespeare’s works to the lives of high schoolers.
• Janelle – a friend in my ward who took this class previously and has been really helpful in getting me to narrow my ideas and gives good feedback.
• My roommate Steph – graduate student who helps me keep things intriguing for the non- English nerds. She doesn’t have any experience in Shakespeare so I bounce ideas off her to see if “normal” people would be interested in my ideas.

New Media:

• eNotes: Found a cool article here about Measure for Measure. It’s more a study guide, but it’s not Cliff Notes! - http://www.enotes.com/measure-for-measure
• Helium: never heard of this sight, their motto is “where knowledge rules.” Founda  cool article about moral lessons in novels (figured it could work for plays too) http://www.helium.com/items/1709390-how-de-we-evaluate-the-moral-lessons-in-novels
• Youtube: everything about this is just weird. But holy creativity! They used Barbie dolls! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYlQy5Xf9bY
• Found this interesting interview by a Director on his take on the play: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZckmTx04vqI

Social Networks:

• I’ve thought of posting my thesis to this group on Goodreads. I think Measure for Measure for be taught more in high schools. I’m realizing how few people of read it ever. It definitely doesn’t get the attention it should: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/876-high-school-english-teachers
• Or even here: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/303-shakespeare-fans

Traditional Sources:

• Folger.edu – found a great resource that even includes lesson plans for teaching Measure for Measure. Have been looking in to these and seeing how high school teachers are approaching the play as a resource for teaching morality and mercy.
• Found a great book called The Family Shakespeare that gives  an great article on Measure for Measure - http://www.google.com/books?id=qMgjAAAAMAAJ&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r#v=onepage&q&f=false
• Also found this aticle from ABELL interesting. It talks about equity and morality in Measure for Measure which is one of the reasons why I think this play should be read more often and used more often in teaching experiences - http://metalib.lib.byu.edu.erl.lib.byu.edu/V/36PHQSVV2CDRYQBS536Y4D4R3Y4EFHPBA7A7UC3PGQVFVE1IBT-45900?func=meta-3&short-format=002&set_number=002012&set_entry=000008&format=999