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