Monday, September 26 Review of Hamlet Act I

Coming up this week:

             Friday, power point review for Hamlet 3 vocabulary. The handout was given last Friday (9/23). There is a copy there, as well as below today. 

              Friday, 9/29 vocabulary quiz Hamlet 3 (this will follow the review directly)

          On Thursday this week the counselors will be coming in to review for the PSAT, which will take place in school on Wednesday, October 19.

             In class today:

              1. Make arrangements to make up last Friday's vocabulary quiz.

               2. This is your last opportunity to turn in the graphic organizer for Act I.iii, the conversation between Laertes and Ophelia. 

               3. Review of the ActI.iii graphic organizer.

              4.  Listening again to the beginning of Act I.v.

               5. Graphic organizer on annotating for the text. Class handout / copy below. You have class time today. I will collect these at the beginning of class on Wednesday. For those of you who receive extended time, the work will be collected on Thursday at the start of class, after which point it will be considered late. If you need additional support, we are available any class with the exception of your own and after school on Tuesday.
 Important: this is counting as a writing grade (50% category!)

Learning targets: I can cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
I can analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama.
I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings.


Name ________________________ Hamlet Act i.iii  conversation between Laertes and Ophelia and later Polonius’ advice to his children.

Who is Laertes?  Laertes is a young Danish lord, the son to Polonius (King Claudius’ chief advisor) and brother to Ophelia. He spends a lot of time at college, but manages to pack much adventure in when he is back home in Denmark.

Who is Ophelia? Ophelia is the daughter of Polonius and sister to Laertes. She was once Hamlet’s love interest, but he has come to reject her of late.

Who is Polonius? Father to Ophelia and Laertes and chief adviser to King Claudius.

Please paraphrase the following lines from Ophelia and Laertes; that is put into your own words.

1.      Laertes speaking: “For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favor,

Hold it a fashion and a toy in the blood,…

Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,

The perfume and suppliance of minute (I.iii. 5-10)

  Hamlet's words sound very nice -his tenders- but they are transitory and shall not last.

2.     Ophelia speaking: “I shall the effect of this good lesson keep

…….but, my good brother,

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do

Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven

Whiles…

Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads  (I.iii.45-50).

I hear and understand you, but don't be a hypocrite like some religious people, who tell you to behave a certain way, yet they do not themselves.

3.     Polonius speaks:   Using textual evidence, list 5 pieces of wise advice that Polonius gives Laertes.

There; my blessing with thee! And these few precepts in thy memory See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are of a most select and generous chief in that. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Give thoughts no tongue Do not be over friendly Keep your good friends close Don't be a sucker for every new fashion that comes along Avoid fights, but if you are in one be resolute Listen to others, but think for yourself Don't spend money on things you cannot afford, but put your best effort into looking your finest. Don' t lend or borrow money Most important...be who you are...not a fake

Essential question: How does individual word choice drive a literary plot?

Name_______________________            Annotation exercise Hamlet Act I.v

Directions:

Annotating (What is annotating? Annotating is making a note of explanation or comment about a text. What you write is referred to as an annotation.

Below is an excerpt from Act I.v, when the ghost of King Hamlet reveals to his son the truth about his death, which I have divided into 14 sections.

Step 1: Read the text.

Step 2. Make two comments, connections, and observations or pose a question under the notes section that is connected to the text you have just read.  Be as specific as possible.  Look closely at the language, the words chosen by the speaker.  Consider not just what the word denotes, but its connotation, that is its deeper meaning.

Make sure your work is legible! That means I can read it.

See example number 1

TEXT                                                                  Your notes

Ghost I am thy father's spirit, Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.	Should Hamlet trust this ghost? Is it really his father? Where is this ghost “doom’d?” What kind of foul crimes has he done? How long will the ghost be there?
But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine:
But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list! If thou didst ever thy dear father love--
Ghost Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.
Ghost Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange and unnatural.
HAMLET Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge.
Ghost I find thee apt; Now, Hamlet, hear:
Ghost 'Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark Is by a forged process of my death Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father's life Now wears his crown.
HAMLET O my prophetic soul! My uncle!
Ghost Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,-- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen:
Ghost Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard, My custom always of the afternoon, Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole, With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, And in the porches of my ears did pour The leperous distilment; whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man That swift as quicksilver it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body, And with a sudden vigour doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine; And a most instant tetter bark'd about, Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust, All my smooth body.
Ghost Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd: Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
Ghost If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not; Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest. But, howsoever thou pursuest this act, Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her
Ghost Adieu, adieu! Hamlet, remember me.

Hamlet vocabulary 3 by William Shakespeare Vocabulary Quiz Friday, September 29
note another meaning for to harrow!
The quiz will be 10 matching and 10 contextual sentences

1.     calamity- (noun) a great misfortune or disaster
2.     heir- (noun) a person who inherits or has right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter’s death.
3.     To confine- (verb) to shut or keep in
4.     commencement- (noun) beginning, start
5.     hypocrite- (noun) a person who pretends to have virtues,        principles 
6.     virtue- (noun) goodness
7.     to deprive-(verb) took away
8.     to harrow-(verb) distresses the mind or feelings
9.     imminent- (adjective) likely to occur at any moment
10.    incentive- (noun) something that encourages a person to do something or to work harder