DYNAMOS: Wednesday, September 14 Hamlet: characters

Four hundred years have passed since William Shakespeare penned his last play. Yet his prose, plots and characters are as alive today as they were when the plays were originally staged during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.Shakespearean works are required reading for high school English students and a course or two for college students who study writing or literature. The plays have been performed in almost every language, on stage and screen and at popular festivals around the world. Even in prisons, teachers find that Shakespeare offers contemporary connections that open pathways to learning for some of society’s most marginalized.
So who is reading and performing Hamlet today?
Who is reading and performing Shakespeare?
watch up to 2:32
In class: vocabulary quiz 1 for Hamlet
(period 3- power point; please look at yesterday's blog to see the correct responses on the color language.)
introducing the characters.

Today's learning target: I can analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).

Main Characters

Hamlet: Son of a murdered Danish king (who was also named Hamlet) and nephew of the present king, Claudius.

Claudius: The new King of Denmark, Hamlet's uncle. He married Hamlet's mother, his brother's wife, within two months after the old King Hamlet's death.