uNit VIII:
Hamlet
Monday, April 25, 2022
Hamlet by William Shakespeare:
Essential Questions:
How does Shakespeare provide a window into the human spirit, the human condition, and the human experience?
How does reading cultivate empathy?
In order to respond to issues that arise as themes in Hamlet, we’re going to play a game called “Cross that Line.” Examine a statement concerning an issue or theme in Hamlet. If you agree with it, go and stand by the door. If you disagree with it, stand in the opposite corner. Be prepared to defend your decisions:
1. It is important to have a good relationship with your parents.
2. Breaking up with a boyfriend or girlfriend is difficult.
3. Adultery is always wrong.
4. Ghosts are real.
5. Revenge is appropriate.
6. Killing a person is wrong.
7. There is such a thing as a "perfect" family.
8. There is no way to know if a person is truly "crazy."
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Hamlet by William Shakespeare:
Essential Questions:
How does Shakespeare provide a window into the human spirit, the human condition, and the human experience?
How does reading cultivate empathy?
Anticipatory Set:
Would you recognize William Shakespeare if you saw him?
Would you recognize Shakespeare’s words and phrases if you heard them?
How many plays do you think he wrote?
Why should YOU read Hamlet? TedEd Video (5 minutes)
Sign out books and take a packet and put your name on it.
Dip into Hamlet:
For Homework: Read pp 4-17; look at pictures and the cast of characters; make 3 predictions concerning what you think the play is about based on your perusal.
Consider situations that will arise in Hamlet:
Below are modernized versions of themes and plot issues found in the play. Put yourself in the character’s position; Take 5 minutes to prepare, and then adlib to the class by performing a brief (2-3 minute) skit.
***Begin your skit by stating what situation you are acting out and who is playing what.***
Situation 1 3 people
Wealthy family. Three people - a son, his mother, her husband. The son's father died a month ago. His mother has just married her brother-in-law (his uncle). The son had been attending college in a distant city, but had to come home for his father's funeral, and then his mother's hasty remarriage. The new step-dad wants to keep a closer eye on his step-son/nephew by keeping him home, instead of sending him back to college.
Quickly discuss and prepare to perform a short skit showing how the step-dad is going to convince the son to stay home. All three characters are present.
Situation 2 3 people
Middle class family. Father, older son, and younger daughter (about your age) . Daughter has been seeing the son of father's boss, who is very rich and high-class. Father is trying to find out how serious their relationship is, then convince her to stop seeing the guy altogether because he believes they have no future together. He believes that the guy is only using her and will never marry her because she is from a lower social class.
Quickly discuss and prepare to perform a short skit showing the conversation between father, older brother (who agrees with his father), and daughter (who is deeply in love with the guy).
Situation 3 2 people
A college buddy comes to tell the son that he heard that his new step-dad actually murdered his father so he could marry his mother. The son is not sure he can believe this friend, but suspects that this may be true.
Quickly discuss and prepare to perform a short skit showing the conversation between the son and his friend when this information comes out.
Situation 4 2 people
Girl has been seeing a guy, but her father made her break up with him. The guy knows it was the father that caused the break-up, so he thinks she has betrayed their love, but he still loves her. Some time later, they meet in the street.
Quickly discuss and prepare to perform a short skit showing the conversation between the guy and the girl when they meet.
Five Basic Improv Rules
1) Don't Deny
Denial is the number one reason most scenes go bad. Any time you refuse an Offer made by your partner your scene will almost instantly come to a grinding halt. Example: Player A) "Hi, my name is Jim. Welcome to my store." Player B) "This isn't a store, it's an airplane. And you're not Jim, you're an antelope."
2) Don't Ask Open-Ended Questions
Open-ended questions (like "Who are you?") are scene killers because they force your partner to stop whatever he/she is doing and come up with an answer. When you ask your partner and open-ended question, you put the burden of coming up with something "interesting" on him/her - so you are no longer doing a scene together, but forcing one person to do more work than you are willing to do.
3) You Don't Have To Be Funny
The hidden riddle of improv is that the harder you try not to be funny the more funny your scene is going to be. Why? Because the very best kind of improv scene you can do is an "interesting" scene, not necessarily a "funny" one. When you do an interesting scene, a very surprising thing happens… the funny comes out all by itself.
Stick to your character, stick to the story that is being told, and stay within the reality of the scene you are playing.
4) You Look Good If Your Partner Looks Good
When you are in a scene, the better you make your partner look, the better the scene is going to be and, as a direct result, the better you are going to look.
5) Tell A Story
Storytelling is probably the easiest rule to remember but the hardest one to do. The real magic of improv is when we see the players take suggestions and cues from one another and somehow "make it work."
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Hamlet by William Shakespeare:
Essential Questions:
How does Shakespeare provide a window into the human spirit, the human condition, and the human experience?
How does reading cultivate empathy?
Share your three predictions with a neighbor.
Read the summary of Act I on pp. 18-19.
Identify parallels between characters in the play and characters in your skit.
Read scene i:
Readers for the following parts in order of appearance: Barnardo, Francisco, Horatio, Marcellus
pp. 20-22- read the original (on the left hand side of the page); if necessary, we can switch on pp. 25-35 to read the modern paraphrase (the right-hand side of the page).
Together as a class, complete the 4 corresponding text-based questions for Act I, scene i.
Homework:
Complete the 4 text-based questions.
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Hamlet by William Shakespeare:
Essential Questions:
How does Shakespeare provide a window into the human spirit, the human condition, and the human experience?
How does reading cultivate empathy?
Agenda for ACT I:
Check-in and review the 4 text-based questions for Act I, scene i.
Divide up parts and read scene ii.
Homework:
Complete the corresponding text-based questions.
Friday, April 29, 2022
Hamlet, Act I:
Essential Questions:
How does Shakespeare provide a window into the human spirit, the human condition, and the human experience?
How does reading cultivate empathy?
Agenda for ACT I:
Check-in the corresponding study guide questions for Act I, scene ii.
Divide up parts and read scenes iii and iv.
Homework:
Answer the corresponding study guide questions.
Monday, May 2, 2022
Hamlet, Act I:
Essential Questions:
How does Shakespeare provide a window into the human spirit, the human condition, and the human experience?
How does reading cultivate empathy?
Agenda for ACT I:
Review Scene iii-iv questions.
Improv Scene V: Hamlet learns from his ghost father that he was murdered by his own brother. Quickly discuss and prepare to perform a short skit showing the conversation between the two. Be sure to include the details of how the murder may have happened (by what means?) and what the Ghost Father asks Hamlet to do about it. What might the Ghost Father want Hamlet to do about his mother? Does he want her punished as well? What will be Hamlet's response to all of this?
Begin watching Act I of Hamlet.
Homework:
Review Act I, Scene i, and complete the corresponding study guide questions.
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Hamlet, Act I
Essential Questions:
How does Shakespeare provide a window into the human spirit, the human condition, and the human experience?
How does reading cultivate empathy?
Agenda for ACT I:
Pick up with film:
Pers. 4 & 6: 15:29 (Scene ii, Intro. Hamlet's character)
Per. 9: Begin at the beginning!
Homework:
Complete the four predictions for Act II, on pp 4-5 of your packet.
Explicate Act I quotes.
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Hamlet, Act I
Essential Questions:
How does Shakespeare provide a window into the human spirit, the human condition, and the human experience?
How does reading cultivate empathy?
Agenda for ACT I:
Pick up with film:
Per. 4: 41:49
Per. 6: 38:38
Per. 9: 30:30
After viewing scene v, review the questions for scene v and the six quotes.
Homework:
Study for Act I Quiz
Thursday, May 5, 2022
Essential Questions:
How does Shakespeare provide a window into the human spirit, the human condition, and the human experience?
How does reading cultivate empathy?
ACT I:
Complete Test
Complete 4 predictions for Act II.
Friday, May 6, 2022
Essential Questions:
How does Shakespeare provide a window into the human spirit, the human condition, and the human experience?
How does reading cultivate empathy?
ACT I:
Correct/review Act I test.
Discuss 4 predictions for Act II.
Act II:
Read the summary of Act II on p. 97.
Divide parts and follow along as you read/listen to Act II, scene i, pp. 99-107.
Homework:
Complete the 4 corresponding text-based questions.
Monday, May 9, 2022
Essential Questions:
How does Shakespeare provide a window into the human spirit, the human condition, and the human experience?
How does reading cultivate empathy?
Agenda for ACT II:
Check-in and review the 4 text-based questions for scene i.
Follow along as you listen to a Reading of Act II, scene ii, pp. 109-153
From enotes: Why does Hamlet call Polonius a Fishmonger?
Prior to Polonius's greeting of Hamlet, he has spoken with King Claudius and Queen Gertrude about Hamlet's madness, contending that Hamlet's letter to his daughter Ophelia is evidence of the prince's mental imbalance.
This, in obedience, hath my daughter shown me;
And more above, hath his solicitings,
As they fell out by time, by means, and place,
All given to mine ear. (2.2.130-133)
Polonius has had his daughter show him this letter, and he has instructed her to have a contrived conversation with Hamlet to which he and Claudius will secretly listen.
At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him.
Be you and I behind an arras then;
Mark the encounter. (2.2.174-176)
Then, Polonius encounters Hamlet and greets him as Hamlet seems surprised.
POLONIUS: Do you know me, my lord?
HAMLET: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger.
While literal meaning of fishmonger is one who sells fish, the word connotes other meanings:
Those who sold fish were of the lower class and loud and loquacious, so Hamlet insults the courtier Polonius, suggesting that he is one who trades in a cheap way with frivolous words.
In the Elizabethan age, a fishmonger had the connotation of a panderer, or procurer, one who used women for profit. Here, the father exploits his daughter Ophelia in order to procure information about Hamlet, instructing her to lure Hamlet to place where he will be hidden.
Clearly, Hamlet is aware of Polonius's chicanery (trickery) as well as his exploitation of his daughter as, when Polonius exits, Hamlet exclaims, "These tedious old fools!"
(http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/hamlet-calls-polonius-fishmonger-why-420728)
Homework:
Complete the 9 corresponding text-based questions for Act II, scene ii.
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Essential Questions:
How does Shakespeare provide a window into the human spirit, the human condition, and the human experience?
How does reading cultivate empathy?
Hamlet, Act II:
Essential Question: How does Shakespeare provide a window into the human spirit, the human condition, and the human experience?
Watch Act II of Hamlet, starring Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet.
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Essential Questions:
How does Shakespeare provide a window into the human spirit, the human condition, and the human experience?
How does reading cultivate empathy?
Act II Agenda:
Check in and review the 9 text-based questions for scene ii.
Complete the 6 quotes for Act II by identifying the speaker, addressee, context, and significance.
Homework
Act II Test is tomorrow. Study.
Monday, May 23, 2022
Hamlet, Act III
Review questions for scene iv.
In class and for homework: complete quotes and predictions.
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Hamlet, Act IV
Divide up parts and read scenes i, ii, iii, and iv. (Complete questions first as a way to prepare students for what is to come.)
Homework:
Complete 4 corresponding quotes.
Three thank you letters are due Tuesday, May 31
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Hamlet, Act IV
Divide up parts and read scenes v-vi. (Complete questions first as a way to prepare students for what is to come.)
Homework:
Complete corresponding quotes.
Three thank you letters are due Tuesday, May 31
Thursday, May 26, 2022
Hamlet, Act IV
Divide up parts and read scene vii. (Complete questions first as a way to prepare students for what is to come.)
Homework:
Complete corresponding quotes
Three thank you letters are due Tuesday, May 31
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Senior Skip Day!!!
Three thank you letters are due.
Work Day for those who are present.
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
Finish reading Watch Hamlet, Act IV.
Homework:
Act IV Test
Predictions for Act IV
Thursday, June 2, 2022
Review questions for Act V
FILM?
Homework:
Also, take the time to review your packet and fill in any missing information: questions, quotes, predictions.
Friday, June 3, 2022
Review parts of the final exam.
Final drafts of thank you notes are due.
Monday, June 6, 2022
Finish Hamlet
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Final Exam: Hamlet M/C
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Final Exam: Hamlet Lit. Essay, Day 1
Thursday, June 9, 2022
Final Exam: Hamlet Lit. Essay, Day 2
Friday, June 10, 2022
Senior Trip!
Monday, June 13, 2022
Final Exam: Reading Comprehension
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Hamlet, Act II:
Essential Question: How does Shakespeare provide a window into the human spirit, the human condition, and the human experience?
Check in and review Act II quotes
Complete Act II test
Homework:
Complete the one prediction for Act III, on p. 9 of your packet.
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Thank you letters: As a senior, close to graduation, take a moment to pause, look around you, and say thank you to those who helped you get here.
Rough Drafts (typed) are due Wednesday May 22nd:
The assignment is to compose three thank you letters, to a minimum of three people. Two people must be school personnel or directly affiliated with the school, whether a coach, guidance counselor, maintenance worker, teacher (anyone from K-12- remember when you were small?), librarian, administrator, nurse, cafeteria worker, school board member, administrative support staff, bus driver, aide. The third should be to a person not employed by the school, but one who contributed to your education, whether through skills, knowledge or character development. This may be to a family member, friend, employer, neighbor, etc. Each letter should be 150-200 words.
Essential Question: How does Shakespeare provide a window into the human spirit, the human condition, and the human experience?
Hamlet, Act III, scene i:
Together examine the prediction question for Act III.
Begin on p. 157 of the play and review the "Before you Read" questions and the "Literary Elements."
Follow along as you listen to Act III, scene i.
For homework: Answer the corresponding study guide questions.
Friday, May 10, 2019
Essential Question: How does Shakespeare provide a window into the human spirit, the human condition, and the human experience?
Hamlet:
Follow along as you listen to a Reading of Act III, scene ii, pp. 176-188
Act III scenes ii- begins with Hamlet instructing the players: 1:44:57
Homework:
Answer corresponding study guide questions.
Thank you letters due Wednesday, May 22nd.
Monday, May 13, 2019
Essential Question: How does Shakespeare provide a window into the human spirit, the human condition, and the human experience?
Hamlet, Act III, scene ii:
Check in and review questions 1-4.
Follow along as you listen to the "mouse-trap" play, also referred to as the "play within a play," pp. 188-210: 1:53:30
Homework:
Answer corresponding study guide questions.
Thank you letters due May 22nd.
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Essential Question: How does Shakespeare provide a window into the human spirit, the human condition, and the human experience?
Hamlet, Act III, scene iii:
Check in and review study guide questions 5-11 for scene ii
Follow along as you listen to scene iii, pp. 212-218: 2:06:51.
Answer and discuss corresponding study guide questions.
Afterwards work on:
Close reading and analysis of "To be or not to be."
Thank you letters (due Wed., May 22nd)
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Essential Question: How does Shakespeare provide a window into the human spirit, the human condition, and the human experience?
Hamlet, Act III, scene iv:
Follow along as you listen to scene iv, pp. 220-238: 2:13:09.
Discuss corresponding study guide questions.
Homework:
Explicate quotes.
Act III test is tomorrow. Study.
Thank you letters due May 22nd
Thursday, May 16
Essential Question: How does Shakespeare provide a window into the human spirit, the human condition, and the human experience?
Act III: Check in and review quotes
Act III: Test
Homework:
Finish close reading and analysis of "To be or not to be."
Thank you letters due May 22nd
Friday, May 17
Essential Question: How does Shakespeare provide a window into the human spirit, the human condition, and the human experience?
Film: Act III
Monday, May 20 - Thursday, May 22
Essential Question: How does Shakespeare provide a window into the human spirit, the human condition, and the human experience?
Complete the predictions for Act IV.
Review the summary and follow along as you listen to Act IV, scenes i - vii: Audio: 2:26:23
Homework:
Each night complete the corresponding study guide questions and quotes.
Act IV Test on Thursday
Thank you notes due Wednesday, May 22nd
Tuesday, May 28
Essential Question: How does Shakespeare provide a window into the human spirit, the human condition, and the human experience?
Review Act IV Test
Film: Finish Act III/Begin Act IV
Homework:
Final drafts of thank you letters
Wednesday, May 29
Film: Finish watching through Act IV
Homework:
Final drafts of thank you letters
Thursday, May 30 - Friday, May 31
Hamlet Act V, scenes i-ii
Predictions
Follow along as you listen to the audio
Each night complete corresponding questions and quotes.
Monday, June 3
Act V - Test
Homework:
Tuesday, June 4 - Wednesday, June 5
Hamlet: Finish viewing film
Thursday, June 6
Final Exam Review -
Hamlet Review Sheet - Exposition - Denouement
FINAL EXAM COMPONENTS
Tues., June 11 Hamlet Test
Wed. - Thurs., June 12-13 Persuasive Literary Essay
Fri., June 14 Reading Comprehension