Hamlet Exploration Record Worksheet

Feel free to print more copies if needed - some topics won't work out and you'll get rid of them quickly, without wasting much time writing them up here.  You should end with two well-developed possible study topics.

I. I have the following ideas for a study of Hamlet in my head even before I have begun this activity:

II. Topic One:________________________________________________________

Resource Visited:_____________________________________________________

General Description of the resource's content:

Key concepts of the site, including your thoughts on them:
1.

2.

How could you make this topic an area of focused study for your final paper?  What obstacles would there be to your doing this?

III. Topic Two:________________________________________________________

Resource Visited:_____________________________________________________

General Description of the resource's content:

Key concepts of the site, including your thoughts on them:
1.

2.

How could you make this topic an area of focused study for your final paper?  What obstacles would there be to your doing this?

IV. Establish your tentative area of focus for your study/paper here.  Write it either as a thesis or a thesis question.