Shakespeare has written many plays and students taking AP Literature are not playing about what to focus on for their project with the AP Lit Shakespeare festival happening Tuesday and Wednesday. 

“The AP Lit Shakespeare festival is a project where each group was tasked with creating a thesis that relates to the play that they read, and then creating an interactive presentation highlighting how the themes were displayed,” senior Aurora Spector said. 

Each group of students is showcasing their project with a creative idea to interpret the plays. 

“For the AP Lit Shakespeare Festival, my group is doing our project on Much Ado About Nothing,” senior Abraham La Rosa Ortega said. “We decided to use food that we’ll bake and bring to represent different characters from the play and their personalities. FEach food choice connects to how the character acts or is portrayed in the play.” 

Although Harry Potter is way out of Shakespeare’s timeline, senior Hussian Qureshi is including them together for his project. 

“We are doing a sock puppet show reenacting the final scene in Hamlet, but viewing it through the lens of Harry Potter,” Qureshi said.

Although this project may only seem fun for students, it does provide insight about Shakespeare and how he incorporates writing styles in his pieces.

“It teaches me about how the claims that we make through themes and elements that we can see throughout Shakespeare can be physically exemplified in numerous ways,” Spector said. 

Students such as La Rosa Ortega are looking forward to the work of others. 

“I’m mostly excited to see how creative everyone gets with their projects,” La Rosa Ortega said. “I’m looking forward to playing the games, trying the activities, and learning a little bit about each play without having to read the whole thing. I also heard that one group is doing a puppet show, which sounds really interesting, so I’m curious to see how they pull that off and what it ends up looking like.”