The Lion King

Learning Target: I can provide and receive mature feedback on the Hamlet personal reflection paper.

Activities

1. Collect the marked-up draft you used in class yesterday 

(5 points) 


2. Internal citations and creative title mini-lesson:

How Like An Angel?

Exploring the nature of God and man in Hamlet

To Be or Not To Be?

Getting Through When Life Hurts

3. Final Peer Review

3. Watch Shakespeare Uncovered: Hamlet 

with David Tennant

Peer feedback on your paper
Controlling Idea
Connections
Voice
Organization (order and flow of ideas)
LT Heading with period
Creative Title
Spelling
Punctuation
Citation

Homework: 

The final paper is due Monday.

Learning Target: I can provide and receive mature feedback on the Hamlet personal reflection paper.

Activities

Watch Shakespeare Uncovered: Hamlet 

Hamlet Uncovered with David Tennant

Peer feedback on your paper
Controlling Idea
Connections
Voice
Organization (order and flow of ideas)


At the end, write two or three sentences on some strengths of the paper and two or three sentences on some possible areas for improvement or expansion.  Perhaps some questions for them..."Have you considered...?

Homework: 

Have a revised draft available for peer feedback tomorrow. Make  sure that draft contains comments (typed in he margin) explaining the reasoning behind three of your most significant changes between the draft you are working with today and the draft you will submit tomorrow for peer review. 

Save the marked-up draft you used in class today and bring it tomorrow.  I would like you to hand that in tomorrow for 5 points.  

Tomorrow: We will focus on mechanics and wordsmithing more than in previous peer reviews.  The final paper is due Monday.

Learning Target: I can use a writing model by a professional writer and feedback from a peer to improve my Hamlet personal reflection paper.

Activities

Watch Hamlet and Shakespeare videos

The Evolution of  O'Rourke's Controlling Idea: Insights on Grieving (in the third and fourth paragraph)

Peer feedback on your paper
Controlling Idea
Connections
Voice
At the end, write two or three sentences on some strengths of the paper and two or three sentences on some possible areas for improvement or expansion.  Perhaps some questions for them..."Have you considered...?

Hamlet Uncovered with David Tennant

Homework: Have a revised draft available for peer feedback tomorrow. Make  sure that draft contains comments (typed in he margin) explaining the reasoning behind three of your most significant changes between the draft you are working with today and the draft you will submit tomorrow for peer review. 

Hamlet essay

Learning Target: I can use Meghan O'Rourke's essay on Hamlet and grieving to reflect on my own essay.

Annotate For: 
Controlling idea and sub-points

Connections

  to Hamlet, other literature, personal, real-world, etc.

Voice...Places where her voice comes across clearly

2nd paragraph...

Controlling idea...What sentences in this paragraph further develop and focus her controlling idea?

Which lines signal a shift or evolution in thought or understanding?

What literary insights are shared? 

Where is her voice strongest? 

What personal examples does she use and what effect do they have?

Homework: 

Finish reading and annotating for controlling idea, connections, and voice in  Meghan O'Rourke's essay on Hamlet.

Next, read and annotate for controlling idea, connections, and voice in your Hamlet essay. Annotate for evidence of each component as well as how your paper might be lacking in some of those areas.  Write suggestions for improvement in the margins.

Tomorrow...Bring in both the annotated O'Rourke essay and the annotated copy of your own.  Also bring in a clean copy of your essay (revised or not) for a peer to take a look at tomorrow.

Learning Target:  I can use Hamlet to reflect on my world.

Activities: 
Hand in last night's homework
Work on Hamlet paper draft #1

Homework:  

First typed draft of paper due Tuesday, Feb 17.
Final paper due on February 23.



Being Mortal: What Matters Most To You?

Learning Target:  I can use Hamlet to reflect on my world.

Activities: 
Take Quiz
Watch Hamlet

Homework:  Answer the following questions in one and a half to two typed pages:
     1) What idea/topic addressed in Hamlet are you planning to focus on?  
     2) Controlling idea/central question/point of view...What is your controlling idea, central question, point of view (POV) for the paper.  What do you think you want to say or figure out about your topic?  
     3) What does Shakespeare have to say about the topic ( based on your reading of Hamlet).  Try to find three to four quotes/passages which suggest Hamlet's POV on the topic. 
    4) If you are doing essay option # 1 (personal response paper), what outside connections - outside the novel, that is - might inform your ideas on your topic? Books, school, family, relationships, friends, movies, classes, etc? Get specific.  Explore places outside the novel which contribute to your views on the topic.

First typed draft of paper due Tuesday, Feb 17.
Final paper due on February 23.

Homework: 
On Thursday, February 12, we will have a quiz on Acts 4 and 5.   It will be a mix of questions about rhetorical and stylistic moves in certain lines and passages in the two acts, and quote identification (identifying who said a particular line or who did they say it to).  It will be 25 questions for a total of 50 points.

Hamlet Act 5

Learning Target:  I can reflect on essay ideas and connections for my Hamlet essay.

Ophelia Drowning

Activity 1: Essay reflection
     What do you think Shakespeare is saying about your topic?
      POV...What insights do you have,  what do you think you want to say or explore about your topic? What is your point of view (POV)?
      What outside connections might you make? Books, school, family, friends, movies, etc?

Activity 2: Watch Hamlet

Homework: Finish the play (read 5.2)
On Thursday, February 12, we will have a quiz on Acts 4 and 5.   It will be a mix of questions about rhetorical and stylistic moves in certain lines and passages in the two acts, and quote identification (identifying who said a particular line or who did they say it to).  It will be 25 questions for a total of 50 points.

1985

Activities: 

1. Collect journals
2. Watch Hamlet

This weekend I attended a reunion for Carmel High School Basketball Teams which made it to the Sweet Sixteen (final 16 teams in the state playoff) two years in a row: 1985 & 1986.  Here is my junior year photo, back in the day when I had hair.

Homework: Read 5.1; no journal entry.  Keep thinking about your Hamlet essay!

Carmel B-Ball Team 2015

Carmel B-Ball Team 1985

Hamlet Act 4

Activity: Watch Hamlet, Act 4

Note 1: The due date for the Hamlet essay has been moved to February 19.

Note 2: I will check journal entries on Monday, not today.


Homework: Finish reading Act 4 of Hamlet and do a journal entry in response to the following:  I am thinking about writing about _______________________ based on _______________________ scene/passages/lines in Hamlet.  I am interested in this because it makes me think about __________________________....If you are responding to prompt # 1, make sure you also address some connections outside of the text include... (cite personal experiences, literature, movies, music, current events, history, religious/philosophical/psychological ideas).  This entry should be at least a page in length.

Hamlet Act 4

Learning Targets: 
I can discuss whether or not King Claudius has shared with anyone his plot to have Hamlet killed in England and what Fortinbras is doing in Denmark.

I can use  my reading to prepare me to watch and better comprehend the play.

Essay ideas:  a friend like Horatio

A plan to change made in passion but forgotten in calm - the play within a play



Activity 1: Discuss the plan to kill Hamlet and Discsuss Fortinbras as foil

Activity 2: Watch Hamlet

Homework:

• Read Act 4.5 and do a journal entry.
• Tomorrow: Journal checks and watch the play.

Hamlet

Learning Target: I can consider Hamlet's state of mind and his father's demand that he revenge his death, and how I might act in a similar situation.

Activities: Discuss Hamlet's motivation (and our own perspective), reflect on essay possibilities, and watch part of Hamlet.

Have you ever been in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's position? Asked to intercede and find out why someone is acting differently? Have you ever been on the receiving end of such investigation? What dilemmas exist for all?


Homework: Read Hamlet 4.1-4 and do a journal entry with an eye towards possible essay ideas and informing quotes for your essay.

Learning Target: I can identify the speakers of key lines in Acts 3, Scenes 1-2, and, by combining my reading of the play with my viewing of the play enacted by skilled actors, come to well-rounded comprehension of the play.  


Activity 1: Take Act 3, Scenes 1 & 2 quiz

Activity 2: Watch from 1:10 (arrival of Guildenstern and Rosencrantz) to 1:43 (Hamlet's meltdown with Ophelia) or perhaps to 1:47ish of the play.

Homework: Read Act 3, Scenes 3-4; Wednesday in DC - Quiz/writing about Scene 3

Wednesday night: Read 4.1-4: Journal entry related to your developing essay ideas

Thursday: Quiz and then
Watch Hamlet from 1:45ish to 225