Thursday, October 13, 2016

Thursday, October 13 Act IV. Polonius' body; Hamlet to England and return




Learning standardsI 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. 
4.      According to the text, what is the man’s purpose on earth?
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
5.      According to the text, what has man that separates him from the beasts?
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…

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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