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.