Final Point 7

Here's our revised edition!! We listed what we changed below. Happy reviewing!

High School Edition 2.0

For the annotated text we fixed some grammatical and annotating errors that Prof. Kerr pointed out to us. Prof. Kerr also pointed out an annotation that doesn't do anything for clarification, when we looked at it we agreed but couldn't think how to change it so we deleted the note but left the footnote so that we could fill it in later after we talk to Prof. Kerr about a suitable replacement. We also added media and quick facts into the text that would be more engaging for the audience. We got this idea from the edition that we edited. Obviously this makes it more interesting and exciting for the students, especially those that haven't encountered Shakespeare. We used pictures from Kenneth Branagh, hopefully an actor that high schoolers would recognize.

For the introduction we tried to cut down on the extraneous details. We also made it more readable for high school students. We want to have an introduction that makes the students excited to read, but also provides some historical context and a brief plot summary so they know what they're getting into. And we also want to refrain from sugarcoating the play because it is difficult for a lot of students. That is why we included the last section of the introduction which hopefully encourages students to take the challenge of reading Macbeth. 

For the critical section, we included another couple of paragraphs on why reading literary criticism is important and how it can aid to our understanding of the play. In addition to this, we diagrammed the Cohen essay referenced in this section and annotated it to help high school students understand the major features of a critical essay and how to read it effectively.

For the letter to the editor, we changed the beginning hook, making the letter grab the attention of the editor by outlining the major features of our edition and how they will achieve our unique goal in relation to our target audience.