Learning standards: I can provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
I can determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
Coming up: Hamlet 5 vocabulary quiz tomorrow. (another copy below)
Due at the beginning of class now: graphic organizer for Act III.iv: Gertrude and Hamlet in her chamber (class handout yesterday)
In class: review of Act III. review act 3 8:15
power point review for Hamlet vocab 5
Act IV, scenes 1-4 with graphic organizer. (class handout / copy below)
We are working our way through Act IV, using the David Tennant version of the film. We begin with the search for Polonius' body. polonius's body, Hamlet to England and returned 8:22
After the body is "nosed", Hamlet is immediately sent to England, but in the next scene he has returned. In this contemporary version, Norway, who has permission to cross through Denmark in order to take some Polish land, has a modern military. Through the character of the captain, Shakespeare inserts a comment on the futility of war:
We go to gain a little patch of ground
That hath in it no profit but the name (IV.iv.18-19).
What follows is another soliloquy, where Hamlet berates himself once again. (Note that the soliloquy has been abbreviated on you graphic organizer. Please take the rest of the class to work on this. You need your text!
Name
________________________ Act IV, scenes 1-4 graphic organizer for Hamlet
1. King Claudius has sent Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern to find Polonius’ body, but why must he must “not put the
strong law on him” (IV.iii.1)
(TEXT IV.iii.3)
2. Where does Hamlet tell King Claudius
that Polonius’ body may be found? (TEXT
IV.iii.19).
3. What does King Claudius wish of his
sending Hamlet to England? (TEXT
IV.iii.65)
Something to consider about
the following soliloquy: Hamlet finally accepts having to revenge his father’s
death as a filial obligation.
.How all occasions do inform against
me,
And
spur my dull revenge! What is a man,
If
his chief good and market of his time
Be
but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
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4.
According to
the text, what is the man’s
purpose on earth?
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a
beast, no more.
Sure,
he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking
before and after, gave us not
That
capability and god-like reason
To
fust in us unused
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5.
According to the text, what has man that separates
him from the beasts?
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A
thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom
And
ever three parts coward, I do not know
Why
yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;'
Sith
I have cause and will and strength and means
To
do't…
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6.
What reasons
does Hamlet give to explain why he must revenge his father? USE TEXT
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Hamlet vocabulary 5 quiz on Friday, October 14
1. discord (noun)- disagreement, lack of harmony (My soul is full of discord and dismay.)
2. scourge (noun)- whip
3. garrison (noun); (also a verb- to garrison)- the troops who maintain a fortified place
4. bestial (adjective)- lacking human qualities
5. craven (adjective)- completely lacking in courage
6. scruple (noun)- an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action
7. conjecture (noun)- an hypothesis that has been formed by speculating
8. to inter (verb)- to place in a grave
9. superfluous (adjective)- more than is desired, needed or wanted
10.incensed (adjective)-angered by an unjust wrong.
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