Interactive Tools for Better Understanding
Interactive tools for Hamlet
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Quizlet for Hamlet - A set of flashcards, tests, and other activities on the Quizlet website to help students get a better understanding of the material we have learned through Shakespeare's Hamlet. Here, you can test your knowledge on the events that happened in the play while also testing your listening through a spelling exercise. There is a match game the student can play as well along with a game exclusive to this site known as Gravity, where the player avoids the planet's destruction by answering questions about Hamlet in a timely manner. The game comes in a variety of difficulties ranging from easy to hard depending on the individual student's level of understanding.
Hamlet Jeopardy - An interactive activity students can play in order to test their knowledge on Hamlet. This game of jeopardy has five categories and all of the sections serve to gauge the student's retention of the play's contents along with the ability to recognize each of the characters. The five categories are as follows: "Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark", Hamlet and Co., Ophelia, Laertes, Claudius and Gertrude, and Quotes. The first category serves to test on general knowledge about Hamlet while the middle three categories test on things about the specific characters indicated. The quotes category will test on the student's ability to recognize important quotes said in the play.
Hamlet: The Text Adventure - A fun puzzle game online about Hamlet where the player must help Hamlet go forth and kill Laertes in the graveyard. This game created by Robin Johnson is a text-based interactive fully named "The Excellent and Most Lamentable Text Adventure of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." The game will force the player to use their brain in solving all the steps that lead to the final ending. The student can examine different pieces of furniture in the setting they are at until they reach their objective all while avoiding an early death. This game is written in Javascript using the writer's own Nondescript text adventure engine.
Hamlet Jeopardy - An interactive activity students can play in order to test their knowledge on Hamlet. This game of jeopardy has five categories and all of the sections serve to gauge the student's retention of the play's contents along with the ability to recognize each of the characters. The five categories are as follows: "Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark", Hamlet and Co., Ophelia, Laertes, Claudius and Gertrude, and Quotes. The first category serves to test on general knowledge about Hamlet while the middle three categories test on things about the specific characters indicated. The quotes category will test on the student's ability to recognize important quotes said in the play.
Hamlet: The Text Adventure - A fun puzzle game online about Hamlet where the player must help Hamlet go forth and kill Laertes in the graveyard. This game created by Robin Johnson is a text-based interactive fully named "The Excellent and Most Lamentable Text Adventure of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." The game will force the player to use their brain in solving all the steps that lead to the final ending. The student can examine different pieces of furniture in the setting they are at until they reach their objective all while avoiding an early death. This game is written in Javascript using the writer's own Nondescript text adventure engine.
Interactive Tools for The Great Gatsby
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Quizlet for The Great Gatsby - This tool is from the Quizlet website and just like the activities provided for Hamlet, there are similar sets of flashcards, tests, and quizzes to help students get a better understanding of The Great Gatsby. On this site, you can test your knowledge on the events that happened in the novel and also compare and contrast your analyses with the ones that other people had. Students can test their listening through a spelling exercise and also play the game Gravity, which is exclusive to Quizlet. This is a game where you protect the planets from incoming asteroids by answering questions about The Great Gatsby before the time limit ends.
The Great Gatsby for NES - A fun Nintendo video game that was transferred over to PC where the player fights gangsters, advertisements, and hobos in order to achieve the American Dream. The student will play as Nick Carraway in the roaring 20s as he tries to find the mysterious man named Gatsby while simultaneously avoiding wacky waiters, dizzy drinkers, and crazy dancers at a party. The game takes place in the West Egg and includes fully animated story scenes and four action packed levels with 4-channel sound. The player is given three lives to work with and although the music and art is in pixels, it is an enjoyable interactive that can be played for fun.
The Great Gatsby: The Video Game - A simple video game online where the student plays as Gatsby who is in a boat rowing across in order to reach the green light on the other side and attain his ideal American dream. The boat starts off on the left side of the screen and the player needs to hit two keys repeatedly in order to make it move towards the light on the other end. Although the game may seem easy at first, there will be waves that come from the right to block Gatsby from his goal and move the boat backwards. As the player gets closer to the green light, the number of waves also increases and makes it more difficult for Gatsby to achieve the American dream.
Free Rice - A collection of fun little vocab quizzes to help donate free rice to people in starving third world countries. For every correct answer, there are ten grains that are sent to those in need of the nourishment. All the rice that is accumulated from correct answers is sent to the World Food Programme in order to help solve world hunger. This website does not have anything to do with the material we will be learning in this class, but serves as an engaging little activity to help you learn more vocabulary on your own free time while also contributing to a humanitarian cause.
The Great Gatsby for NES - A fun Nintendo video game that was transferred over to PC where the player fights gangsters, advertisements, and hobos in order to achieve the American Dream. The student will play as Nick Carraway in the roaring 20s as he tries to find the mysterious man named Gatsby while simultaneously avoiding wacky waiters, dizzy drinkers, and crazy dancers at a party. The game takes place in the West Egg and includes fully animated story scenes and four action packed levels with 4-channel sound. The player is given three lives to work with and although the music and art is in pixels, it is an enjoyable interactive that can be played for fun.
The Great Gatsby: The Video Game - A simple video game online where the student plays as Gatsby who is in a boat rowing across in order to reach the green light on the other side and attain his ideal American dream. The boat starts off on the left side of the screen and the player needs to hit two keys repeatedly in order to make it move towards the light on the other end. Although the game may seem easy at first, there will be waves that come from the right to block Gatsby from his goal and move the boat backwards. As the player gets closer to the green light, the number of waves also increases and makes it more difficult for Gatsby to achieve the American dream.
Free Rice - A collection of fun little vocab quizzes to help donate free rice to people in starving third world countries. For every correct answer, there are ten grains that are sent to those in need of the nourishment. All the rice that is accumulated from correct answers is sent to the World Food Programme in order to help solve world hunger. This website does not have anything to do with the material we will be learning in this class, but serves as an engaging little activity to help you learn more vocabulary on your own free time while also contributing to a humanitarian cause.