1984 is # 1 book after Trump's "alternative facts"
Thursday: Watch and discuss different "O, what a rogue" soliloquies
"To be or not to be..."
With a partner/partners, divide the soliloquy as if it were two voices debating. We want to show the different sides of an internal debate. Are there any lines (or groups of lines) which you feel could/should be read simultaneously by both readers?
After you mark it up for the two sides of the argument, read it aloud with your partner, talk to another group about how they divided the lines.
Now get on your feet and perform your script for one another, trying to convey the sense of a subdued but heavy debate.
Adding acting notes for tone and non-verbal actions: Now, as a group of four, do one more read and script mark-up, preparing as if you were going to be acting the scene. Where would you add notes to guide your voice and your body language and facial expresions? Write notes in the margin to pause, raise your voice, change your tone, gesticulate with your hands, stand up, sit down, throw a fist, clutch your head, etc.
Tomorrow, you will perform for one other group using vocal and physical moves to more fully convey the nuances of Hamlet's internal conflict.
Also tomorrow....
Two groups as far away from one another as we can manage...
Adjust pitch, tone, inflection, and stress to emphasize the meaning of the words and lines and to read in unison as if each of the two groups were one voice.
When the groups finish practicing, face each other and read their parts loudly and angrily to the other group. While this is going on, I will record the debate.
Let's listen to it on the phone
Explore antitheses and what it reveals about Hamlet's state of mind
Watch three different versions of speech
Homework:
Read Act 3.2.1-175
"Ha Ha! Are you honest? "
"Get thee to a nunnery!"
and do Reading Log #8
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