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.
I can adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating a command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.
Coming up this week:
Wednesday, turn in your annotation graphic organizer. If you need additional support, speak with me today. (another copy below)
Thursday: last day to turn in annotation graphic organizer for those who receive extended time.
Counselors reviewing for PSATs, which will be given on Wednesday, October 19.
Friday, Power Point review for the words passed out last Friday, September 23. class handout / another copy below.
Hamlet 3 vocabulary quiz
In class today: review of Act I (verbal and visual)
Listening to Act II.1
graphic organizer for ActII.i. Polonius and Ophelia class handout / copy below
7 minute video clip of Hamlet Act 1
summary of Act I
written summary of Hamlet Act I (see below)
Act I. summary
Shakespeare's Hamlet begins in Denmark with the news that King Hamlet of Denmark has recently died.
Denmark is now in a state of high alert and preparing for possible war with Young Fortinbras of Norway.
A ghost resembling the late King Hamlet is spotted on a platform before Elsinore Castle in Denmark.
King Claudius, who now rules Denmark, has taken King Hamlet's wife, Queen Gertrude as his new wife and Queen of Denmark.
King Claudius fearing Young Fortinbras of Norway may invade, has sent ambassadors to Norway to urge the King of Norway to restrain Young Fortinbras.
Young Hamlet distrusts King Claudius. The King and Queen do not understand why Hamlet still mourns his father's death over two months ago.
Laertes, the son of Lord Chamberlain Polonius, gives his sister Ophelia some brotherly advice. He warns Ophelia not to fall in love with Young Hamlet; she will only be hurt. Polonius tells his daughter Ophelia not to return Hamlet's affections for her since he fears Hamlet is only using her...
Hamlet meets the Ghost of his father, King Hamlet and follows it to learn more...
Hamlet learns from King Hamlet's Ghost that he was poisoned by King Claudius, the current ruler of Denmark.
The Ghost tells Hamlet to avenge his death but not to punish Queen Gertrude for remarrying; it is not Hamlet's place and her conscience and heaven will judge her...
Hamlet swears Horatio and Marcellus to silence over Hamlet meeting the Ghost.
Name
_________________________________
Hamlet Act II.i Polonius sets a spy on Laertes; Ophelia tells Polonius
what Hamlet has done.
Study questions
for Hamlet act II.i
1.
Why does Polonius
wish Renaldo to use “slips [such] as gaming…or drinking, fencing and
quarrelling,” in other words a “bait of falsehood?” use text (II.i.64-66)
2.
According to
Ophelia, how was Hamlet dressed when he entered her sewing closet?
Use text (II.i.78-77-80)
3.
What does
Polonius think is the reason behind Hamlet’s behavior?
Use text (II.ii.102).
Name_______________________ Annotation exercise HamletAct 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
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?
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Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.
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Murder most foul, as in the best it is;
But this most foul, strange and unnatural. | |
Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift
As meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge. | |
I find thee apt;
Now, Hamlet, hear: | |
'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. | |
O my prophetic soul! My uncle!
| |
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: | |
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. | |
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, | |
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 | |
Adieu, adieu! Hamlet, remember me.
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Name_______________________ Annotation exercise HamletAct 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
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?
|
| |
| |
Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.
| |
Murder most foul, as in the best it is;
But this most foul, strange and unnatural. | |
Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift
As meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge. | |
I find thee apt;
Now, Hamlet, hear: | |
'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. | |
O my prophetic soul! My uncle!
| |
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: | |
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. | |
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, | |
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 | |
Adieu, adieu! Hamlet, remember me.
|
Hamlet vocabulary 3 by William Shakespeare Vocabulary Quiz Friday, September 29
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
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
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