Local Print and Non print Resources

 Skills

Your school library has a variety of resources in print to assist with this assignment

• Try doing a subject search in Destiny for Hamlet. This will give you books about Hamlet.

Some reference books common to many schools include:

• Shakespeare for Students
• New Moulton's Library of Literary Criticism (vol.2)

• Using Destiny - quick help on using and searching Destiny
• Using Destiny Quest - quick help on using Destiny Quest
• Search Strategies (Boolean, Natural Language, etc) You can do advanced searches in Destiny.
• Using the BCPL Online Catalog
• Unpacking the "Big" Question (Extracting Key Words

  Skills

Baltimore County Public Schools subscribes to the Literature Resource Center, an excellent resource which provides critical resources for literary research. This should be your first online stop. Most of the articles are print resources which have been digitized. All of the articles in this database are authentic, accurate, and have been subject to a rigorous editorial process. You can search by clicking the Literature Resource Center icon below or by typing your keywords in the widget below. For access outside of school, see your Library Media Specialist for the login credentials.

• Evaluating Web sites for Authenticity...This skill lesson would be extremely helpful for evaluating web sites pertaining to the Holocaust.

Internet Resources

Hamlet's Not Depressed, He's Grieving - essay from Slate

Characters of Shakespeare's Plays - Hamlet - scholarly character analysis

Essays on Hamlet - collection of short essays and lecture excerpts on Hamlet

Hamlet - analysis of many of the themes

Hamlet and His Problems - an essay by T.S. Eliot