Tuesday, October 18 Act V Ophelia's burial and King Claudius' wager

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Laertes and Hamlet

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: power point review on Thursday, October 20
                     vocabulary quiz on Friday, October 21 (words handed out last Friday; another copy below)
In class musical summary of Act IV
    1:29
Act V.i
Ophelia's burial  6:51

The play has become tense; so Shakespeare starts of this scene with a little comic relief. Hamlet and Horatio note how everyone eventually "looked o' this fashion i' th' earth"(V.i.200).
Act V.i 
encounters with the family in the graveyard   5:22

Are Hamlet's emotions authentic? 
Act V.ii
Preparations for the final scene Hamlet vs. Laertes  stop at 5:22

Accompanying graphic organizer Class handout / copy below
This will be collected on Thursday at the beginning of class.

Name_______________________  Ophelia’s burial and Claudius’ request to Hamlet

1.       What is the First Clown’s argument that Ophelia could not have committed suicide? (TEXT V.i.18-21)

2.       Whose skull does Hamlet discover in the graveyard and what was their relationship? Read through the following (V.i.185-88) and write one sentence that weaves in text.

3.       What does Hamlet publically declare at Ophelia’s gravesite? TEXT V.I.271-73).

4.       Ostric is the new Polonius (notice what a sycophant he is), and he has a request for Hamlet from King Claudius? What has the king wagered that Hamlet will be able to trump Laertes? TEXT V.ii.166-170

5.       What is Hamlet’s response to Claudius’ request? TEXT V.ii.177

6.       Horatio is concerned for HAMLET, but Hamlet assures his friend he has been practicing. Even so, Hamlet is cognizant that he might lose and says:

     …   we defy augury: there's a special

providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,

'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be

now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the

readiness is all (V.ii.220-224)

Paraphrase (put into your own words) what Hamlet has said. 

Hamlet vocabulary 6   quiz on Friday, October 21

1.   To abhor (verb)- to find repugnant, very distasteful

2.   gibe (noun)- an aggressive remark

3.   imperious (adjective)- having or showing superiority

4.   to profane (verb)- to violate a sacred place, person or language

5.   requiem (noun)- song or hymn as a memorial for a dead person

6.   churlish (adjective)- having a bad disposition

7.   amity (noun)- friendship  (note the opposite is enmity!)

8.   perdition (noun)- the place or state that one suffers eternal punishment

9.   umbrage (noun)- a feeling of anger caused by feeling offended

10.                     infallible (adjective)- incapable of failure